Wattpad is further expanding into Asia with a new partnership and undisclosed strategic investment from Times Bridge, the global investment arm of the Times Group in India. The deal aims to help the storytelling community establish a larger presence in the country where it already counts over 2.6 million monthly users who have shared more […]
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Did you know you can apply Instagram Story filters to existing photos and videos?
This might sound like a minor feature, but it’s actually a big deal: Instagram now lets you add Story filters — think silly ears, ridiculous sunglasses, etc. — to existing photos and videos. Before this change, you were only able to apply these filters while taking a photo or video.
According to Android Police, the changed has been rolling out on Android recently; for me it works on both iOS and Android.
We’re not sure for how long, exactly, has this feature been there; we’ve asked Instagram about it and will update this article when we hear from them. Read more…
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View More Did you know you can apply Instagram Story filters to existing photos and videos?Online storytelling community Wattpad launches its own publishing arm, Wattpad Books
Wattpad, an online community for original fiction whose stories have been turned into streaming hits like Netflix’s “The Kissing Booth,” is now turning its eyes to publishing. The company today announced the launch of a new division, Wattpad Books, that aims to turn its most popular content into future best sellers. The books division will […]
View More Online storytelling community Wattpad launches its own publishing arm, Wattpad BooksYouTube rolls out Stories to creators with over 10,000 subscribers
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The battle between YouTube and Instagram continues.
In a blog post, Google-owned YouTube announced on Thursday that it was expanding the rollout its Stories feature to all of the platform’s creators with over 10,000 subscribers.
YouTube’s Stories feature is very much like Stories over on Instagram and Snapchat. Creators who are eligible in the expanded rollout can use Stories to add text, filters, stickers, music, and more to their videos.
But, there are some major areas where YouTube Stories differ from the rest. One big difference is how long it takes for them to disappear. YouTube Stories remain watchable in the mobile app for seven days before disappearing. Stories on platforms like Snapchat and Instagram last only 24 hours after posting. Viewers can also leave comments on YouTube’s version of Stories and creators have the ability to respond. Read more…
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YouTube rolls out Stories to creators with over 10K subscribers
A year ago, YouTube launched its own take on Stories, with the addition of a new short-form video format called Reels. The feature, which was rebranded as “YouTube Stories” at last year’s VidCon, was initially available only to select YouTube creators. But in June, YouTube said it would expand Stories to all creators with over […]
View More YouTube rolls out Stories to creators with over 10K subscribersWattpad launches a new program offering paid access to exclusive stories
Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot – just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 million readers log in to online community Wattpad each month, where they spend over 22 billion minutes engaged in its original […]
View More Wattpad launches a new program offering paid access to exclusive storiesSoundCloud tracks can now be shared to Instagram Stories
Streaming service SoundCloud is making it easier for its users to share music from its service directly to Instagram . The company announced this morning a new feature that allows users to share tracks to Instagram Stories. However, there’s a big caveat here – the tracks are shared as a link that appears within Stories […]
View More SoundCloud tracks can now be shared to Instagram StoriesSkype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories, squiggles and over-the-top color
Just over a year after Skype introduced a colorful, Snapchat-inspired makeover which included its own version of “stories,” the company says it’s now going to refocus on simplicity – and it’s ditching stories along the way. The redesign had been met with a lot of backlash. Skype had clearly wanted to appeal to a more […]
View More Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories, squiggles and over-the-top colorAmazon Rapids, the chat fiction for kids, is now free
Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction that encourages kids to read by presenting stories in the form of text message conversations, is now going free. Previously, Amazon had been charging $2.99 per month for a subscription that allows unlimited access to its story collection, which now numbers in the hundreds. First launched in November 2016, Amazon […]
View More Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction for kids, is now freeWhy unskippable Stories ads could revive Facebook
Prepare for the invasion of the unskippables. If the Stories social media slideshow format is the future of mobile TV, it’s going to end up with commercials. Users won’t love them. And done wrong they could pester people away from spending so much time watching what friends do day-to-day. But there’s no way Facebook and […]
View More Why unskippable Stories ads could revive FacebookInstagram officially launches re-sharing of posts to Stories
No, it’s not a “regram” option. Sorry! But today, Instagram is officially launching a new feature that will allow users to re-share someone’s Instagram post with their friends via Instagram Stories – something it confirmed was in testing earlier this year. The idea with the new re-sharing option is to give users a way to add their […]
View More Instagram officially launches re-sharing of posts to StoriesStories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?
We’re at the cusp of the visual communication era. Stories creation and consumption is up 842 percent since early 2016, according to consulting firm Block Party. Nearly a billion accounts across Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger now create and watch these vertical, ephemeral slideshows. And yesterday, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox showed a […]
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