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What a way to start a new month! Instagram users can share now identified songs and post them to Instagram Stories. Starting from today, thanks to a new partnership with the Facebook-owned app, now Shazam, which is the latest music feature integrated directly into Instagram Stories will let you do this.  According to a report by Billboard .  The Stories feature has quickly become one of the most popular forms of sharing and viewing updates among all social media platforms, and builds about the app’s functionality of being an image and video-centric social media platform. Allowing users to now share to Instagram Stories further enhances the sharing capabilities of the Shazam platform. What is actually shared is the track page on Shazam, which comes up either through searches, or when identified by the listening tool. How it works To use the new feature, after updating, head to Shazam (the app that helps you identify songs), choose the song you want to share, and hit the S...

When Instagram rolled out its Stories features in 2016, many were skeptical about its usefulness. This brush off might be attributed to the fact that Instagram had ‘stolen’ Snapchat’s idea . But two years later, not only have people fallen in love with Instagram Stories but its daily users round up to 300 million . To those 300 million users, Instagram Stories isn’t a copy of Snapchat; it’s the preferred version. And it’s not just that way for regular people, but also for businesses. With Instagram Stories, marketers and brands have a useful tool to sell their business and connect with their customers. You can have fun by sharing humorous content, kickstart a marketing campaign, or even drive your e-commerce sales up; there’s really no limit to what you can achieve with Instagram Stories. You can snap/select a photo, make a video, or take a poll. You can even make your Story more fun by adding Instagram’s face filters feature. Instagram we...

As a way of encouraging users to communicate to their friends using Instagram stories, the Facebook owned company has introduced a question and answer feature. Music in stories , GIFs, online shopping and more are all new additions Instagram has introduced to the app. The newest addition was announced today , is a “questions sticker.” The sticker allows users to submit answers to the question posed by another user rather than just voting on an answer displayed for them. “It’s a fun new way to start conversations with your friends so you can get to know each other better,” a blog post from Instagram about the update said.  The question sticker is as easy to add to a story as any other sticker on the app is. It builds on the sticker that allows users to poll their followers in the app. Prior to the questions sticker addition, users could offer followers two options in the app and those followers could choose one or the other and Instagram would show the ...

Instagram Stories has surpassed 400 million daily active users, the company confirmed today — up from the 250 million users it said it counted last June. For comparison’s sake, predecessor Snapchat last reported 191 million daily active users, meaning that Instagram’s base Story is now more than twice that tally. At the same time that it shared the impressive milestone, Instagram Stories are about to get even busier, with the addition of licensed music. Starting today, users will be able to add background music to their posts on their Stories. Now, users can browse a growing library of thousands of songs according to mood, genre, or popularity — and then fast-forward or rewind through a track to find the part of the song that they want to feature. A music icon will show up with the rest of the stickers, and tapping it will bring up a list of popular songs. A play icon next to each track allows you to preview each one, and a song can even be selected before recor...

Months after gaining traction from over 300 million daily active users, Instagram Stories will now start selling products . Shopping on Instagram has been evaluated for a long time to make it a profitable social media model. Particularly, Instagram Stories, which arrived as a Snapchat-inspired feature back in August 2016, had started attracting businesses in just one year after its launch. The fresh development has expanded the shopping experience on Instagram as previously its feed was exclusively serving ads to let customers buy new products without leaving the photo-sharing platform. Starting today, The Facebook-owned company will show stickers with a shopping bag icon on products featured in a story. When you see a shopping bag icon in a Story, then you"ll be able to tap it to get more details about a product before making a purchase if you wish to. A few brands will be able to market their products in this way right away, such as Adidas and Louis Vuitton, with more certain to...

Instagram, the photo-sharing app, owned by Facebook Inc. is introducing a new and easy way to share feed posts on your story, according to a blog post .  So many times, we come across stuff, image, quotes that inspire us and all we want to do is post them — like a shoe image from an online shopping site, or a new watch you just bought and all you now want to do is just share that post as a sticker to your story for your friends and followers to see. The new feature which allows you share your feed post to your story with ease. It also will let people post information from apps directly to their Instagram Stories, which last for 24 hours. For example, while listening to a song on Spotify, someone would be able to tell their Instagram friends what title or album it is. As the album cover can be share on your story instead of using screenshot to post on your story, you can simply just click on share.  How it works To use the feature, Instagram users can share a feed post to...

Snapchat might really, really get hard hit  soon.  The battle for who is the best, has likely just begun. Last week as Snapchat distracts itself with new Spectacles 2 camera glasses , Instagram is arming itself with new firepower to take on its adversary app. A twitter user @wongmjane posted about various tests Instagram has conducted or is currently testing. Jane Wong is apparently a computer science student who appears to be looking through the app’s code. The Facebook owned app is reportedly testing these features with some users, but has yet to officially announce them. But if Instagram does release them, Snapchat might be in deep trouble. The new features would give Instagram users more control over their account and content and further drive them to dump Snap. Here is a breakdown of the feature conducted or yet to be released: Reaction to stories The feature was first spotted by a twitter user @wongmjane while conducting a coding on the social media platform ,in a...