Insta introduces Presents, new enhancing options on Reels in India

NEW DELHI: Meta-owned Instagram on Wednesday launched new options to the app in India, together with Instagram Presents and new enhancing updates on Reels, to assist creators unleash their creativity and earn extra from their Reels content material.

As we speak, the corporate showcased the brand new Instagram options at a product schooling workshop in its Mumbai workplace.

“Day by day, teenagers and creators are utilizing Instagram to inform their story in thrilling methods. That is occurring on Reels, in addition to different surfaces like Feed, Tales and DMs. We wished to focus on these numerous use instances to encourage creativity, in addition to spotlight some new options that may assist them construct an engaged neighborhood,” Paras Sharma, Director of Content material and Neighborhood Partnerships at Fb India (Meta), mentioned in an announcement.

With Instagram Presents, creators can obtain presents from followers who buy them straight throughout the Instagram app utilizing Stars.

“Viewers should buy stars and use them to ship you presents on Instagram. Instagram will then offer you a income share out of your Reels that obtained presents on a month-to-month foundation equal to $.01 for each star obtained from followers,” mentioned Instagram.

Presents will likely be rolling out in India within the subsequent few weeks.

Furthermore, the corporate has launched new updates to its Reels editor globally, which can come within the subsequent few weeks.

The replace contains options like Cut up, Pace, and Change.

Customers can now simply break up a single clip into two clips with ‘Cut up’, and may pace up or decelerate their clips with ‘Pace’.

With Change, customers can swap one clip out for an additional with out altering the timing or order of different clips, audio and different parts of their reels.

The corporate additionally launched GIF feedback on posts and Reels, which is now obtainable globally.