{"id":3951,"date":"2017-03-08T03:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T03:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/instagram-stories-launches-geostickers-as-its-snap-attack-continues-2.html"},"modified":"2017-03-08T03:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T03:31:58","slug":"instagram-stories-launches-geostickers-as-its-snap-attack-continues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/instagram-stories-launches-geostickers-as-its-snap-attack-continues-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Stories launches geostickers as its Snap attack continues"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Instagram is steadily closing its feature gap with\u00a0Snapchat. Today, Instagram launched its first geostickers<\/a>, which let users add and arrange illustrations to their Stories posts related to their locations.<\/p>\n

The first places getting city-wide and special neighborhood geostickers are New York City and Jakarta, Indonesia. These add to Instagram Stories\u2019 existing location stickers that add the name of a place to your shots. All users worldwide can access the Instagram geostickers with today\u2019s 10.11 update on iOS<\/a> and Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Snapchat launched its own Geofilters back in 2014, which can\u2019t be rearranged or resized. It added moveable Geostickers in August 2016 to give people more customization over their location-based creativity tools. The one thing Instagram\u2019s geostickers and filters do that Snap\u2019s don\u2019t is show\u00a0the Instagram location page for that place with a tap, though Stories posts won\u2019t show up there, so there\u2019s no privacy issue with that.<\/p>\n

You can see how similar Snapchat\u2019s Geostickers<\/a>\u00a0(below) look to Instagram\u2019s:<\/p>\n

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Instagram\u2019s geostickers look almost identical to Snapchat\u2019s, seen here<\/p>\n

With geostickers in place, the last big Snapchat feature missing from Instagram Stories is augmented reality selfie Lenses. Facebook acquired MSQRD last year to bring these AR masks to its products. Yet despite their rollout on Facebook and Messenger, they haven\u2019t come to Instagram yet. But the app is likely brewing its own unique take on the format before it makes its next push to do Snapchat better than Snapchat.<\/p>\n

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All of Instagram\u2019s cloning efforts seem to be paying off. Instagram Stories already has 150 million daily users, more than Snap\u2019s original version of the feature. Instagram Stories is stealing Snapchat usage, which led Snapchat\u2019s user growth to plummet 82 percent in the two quarters after Facebook\u2019s copycat spun up. Now worries about Snap\u2019s growth are sinking into its share price, which slumped\u00a012 percent yesterday and 11 percent today<\/a> after its 40 percent IPO pop.<\/p>\n

All eyes will be on Snap\u2019s first earnings report, and whether it can fight off Instagram\u2019s clone and reinvigorate its growth.<\/p>\n

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