{"id":14182,"date":"2019-02-07T23:51:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/instagram-thinks-you-want-igtv-previews-in-your-home-feed.html"},"modified":"2019-02-07T23:51:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:51:28","slug":"instagram-thinks-you-want-igtv-previews-in-your-home-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/instagram-thinks-you-want-igtv-previews-in-your-home-feed.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram thinks you want IGTV previews in your home feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can\u2019t beat or<\/em> join them\u2026 force feed \u2019em? That appears to be Instagram\u2019s <\/a> latest strategy for IGTV, which is now being shoved right into Instagram\u2019s main feed, the company announced today. Instagram says that it will now add one-minute IGTV previews to the feed, making it \u201ceven easier\u201d to discover and watch content from IGTV.<\/p>\n

Uh.<\/p>\n

IGTV, you may recall, was launched last year<\/a> as a way for Instagram to woo creators. With IGTV, creators are able to share long-form videos within the Instagram platform instead of just short-form content to the Feed or Stories.<\/p>\n

The videos, before today, could be viewed in Instagram itself by tapping the IGTV icon at the top-right of the screen, or within the separate IGTV standalone app.\"\"Instagram\u2019s hope was that IGTV would give the company a means of better competing with larger video sites, like Google\u2019s YouTube or Amazon\u2019s Twitch.<\/p>\n

Its users, however, haven\u2019t found IGTV as compelling.<\/p>\n

As of last fall<\/a>, few creators were working on content exclusively for IGTV, and rumor was the viewing audience for IGTV content remained quite small, compared with rivals like Snapchat or Facebook. Many creators just\u00a0weren\u2019t finding it<\/a> worth investing additional resources into IGTV, so were repurposing content designed for other platforms, like YouTube or Snapchat.<\/p>\n

That means the bigger creators weren\u2019t developing premium content or exclusives for IGTV, but were instead experimenting by replaying the content their fans could find elsewhere. Many are still not even sure what the IGTV audience wants to watch.<\/p>\n

IGTV\u2019s standalone app doesn\u2019t seem to have gained much of a following either.<\/p>\n

The app today is ranked a lowly No. 228 on the U.S. App Store\u2019s \u201cPhoto and Video\u201d top chart. Despite being run by Instagram \u2014 an app that topped a billion monthly users last summer, and is currently the No. 1 free app on iOS \u2014 fewer are downloading IGTV.<\/p>\n

After seeing 1.5 million downloads in its first month last year \u2014 largely out of curiosity \u2014 the IGTV app today has only grown to 3.5 million total installs worldwide, according to Sensor Tower data. While those may be good numbers for a brand-new startup, for a spin-off from one of the world\u2019s biggest apps, they\u2019re relatively small.\"\"Instagram\u2019s new video initiative also represents another shot across the bow of Instagram purists.<\/p>\n

As BuzzFeed reporter Katie Notopoulos opined last year, \u201cI\u2019m Sorry To Report Instagram Is Bad Now<\/a>.\u201d Her point of concern was the impact that Stories had on the Instagram Feed \u2014 people were sharing to Stories instead of the Feed, which made the Feed pretty boring. At yet, the Stories content wasn\u2019t good either, having become a firehose of the throwaway posts that didn\u2019t deserve being shared directly on users\u2019 profiles.<\/p>\n

On top of all this, it seems the Instagram Feed is now going to be cluttered with IGTV previews. That\u2019s. Just. Great.<\/p>\n

Instagram says you\u2019ll see the one-minute previews in the Feed, and can tap on them to turn on the audio. Tap the IGTV icon on the preview and you\u2019ll be able to watch the full version in IGTV. When the video is finished, you\u2019re returned to the Feed. Or, if you want to see more from IGTV, you can swipe up while the video plays to start browsing.<\/p>\n

IGTV previews is only one way Instagram has been developing the product to attract more views in recent months. It has also integrated\u00a0IGTV<\/span>\u00a0in Explore, allowed the sharing of\u00a0IGTV<\/span>\u00a0videos to Stories, added the ability to save\u00a0IGTV<\/span>\u00a0Videos and launched\u00a0IGTV<\/span>\u00a0Web Embeds.<\/p>\n

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