Instagram Reels, the organization’s huge effort in contending with TikTok on short interesting content has finally launched globally.
The new feature is now accessible across 50 countries, including the U.S., as Instagram had recently announced.
Reels is now presently accessible in key global markets, for example, India, Brazil, France, Germany, the U.K., Japan, Australia, Spain, Mexico, Argentina and a few others.
The timing is on-point, given TikTok’s questionable future in the U.S. as the Trump administration weighs either prohibiting the Chinese-owned app totally or constraining it to auction off its U.S. operations.
How does Reels works?
Instagram Reels video configuration live within Stories, which users can make in the upper left corner of the Home feed.
Instagram is has already refreshed the choices at the base of the screen — for making Live recordings, text posts, or Boomerangs — to include a tab for Reels.
The creation procedure for Reels seems like that of TikTok, however it is not yet clear how consistent of an experience it is compared to TikTok’s video-making ease.
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How to know which posts on Instagram are Reels?
While looking through your home feed of or Explore page, you’ll have the option to tell which posts are Reels cuts by a small icon in the bottom-left corner.
Viewing Reels will be quite a comparable encounter as viewing TikTok videos: You can like or comment on video recordings, and navigate to see what sound track was utilized in a particular video.
You can also scroll vertically through videos — which is very similar to TikTok’s addictive “For You” feed”.
Another tab has now been added to users’ profiles to showcase every one of their Reels in a single spot.
The tab will live with the customary grid posts, just as tabs for viewing IGTV recordings.
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