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Like what you see on your favourite Instagram influencers but tired of never getting a reply to your “where can I buy that?” or how much do it cost?  questions?—Instagram has sensed your frustrations and has decided to make it easier for users to not only know where the items are from, but also purchase them directly on the platform. The photo-sharing platform starting testing the Shopping in Stories feature in June . Now brand accounts can insert shopping links in their Stories, so users can easily view pricing for and links to buy the items featured. Instagram says Shopping in Stories lets brands "tell an even deeper story about what’s behind their products." Telling an even deeper story, in this case, seems to mean selling you stuff. As of today, it"s available to businesses based in 46 countries. Blog post : “Now when you’re watching behind-the-scenes Stories from your favourite brands and see something you love, you can quickly tap on a pro...

Previously, only muted-GIFs were available to be forwarded but now Snapchat has introduced  a new feature—which allows users to send music GIFs to their followers, or upload them as stories, on the social network, thanks to TuneMoji . Since launching in 2014, TuneMoji has been steadily growing, with around 20 million users already. The app allows people to create and share the GIFs, which all feature licensed music, to enhance their chat—The music GIF network is integrating into Snap from today, allowing the app’s millions of users to add TuneMojis in chats and stories, as first spotted by Business Insider . “Adding music to GIFs is the next logical step in the evolution of visual communication," said TuneMoji’s founder and CEO, James Fabricant. “We initially started by creating TuneMojis ourselves, and quickly realized how much more effective it would be to empower a generation with the tools to produce their own music GIFs. That infinite creati...

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...

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...

Facebook is launching a slew of updates to its Stories feature. The social media giant will now let users save photos and videos to the Facebook cloud, archive Facebook Stories and share voice messages with friends. The first feature is called Voice Posts. The feature will let Facebook users quickly share voice messages between one another. This is just as similar to that of WhatsApp, which means it will allow users make calls within their Facebook messenger instead of using normal calls to keep in touch and it sounds like these will be designed to be quick and easy to share. The other feature is the ability to archive Facebook Stories before they expire in the standard 24 hours. This is a similar feature to what Facebook introduced with Instagram last year, so it isn’t too surprising to see it pop up in the Facebook app proper. And the experience might be same or even better.  Finally, the marquee and mind blowing feature is cloud storage for photos and videos that are tak...