Entries in Social Media (813)

Tuesday
Oct292024

Instagram shows best video quality for most popular content

If you're wondering why some of your Instagram videos look blurry while others come out crisp, Instagram is doing that on purpose. According to a recent video AMA with Instagram head Adam Mosseri, the quality of your video changes depending on how many views it gets.

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Saturday
Oct192024

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup - 10/13 - 10/19

Saturday
Oct192024

Instagram now lets you add songs in posts to your Spotify account

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Music discovery is a big part of social media these days. Instagram might be slightly late to the party, but at least, now you can add the songs you hear from posts and Reels straight to your Spotify playlist. If you like a song in a post, tap on the title to go to the audio preview page. You'll know you have the feature if you spot that Add button with the Spotify logo beside the audio scrubber. You will need to link your Spotify account with your Instagram first. But once that is set up, it'll be a one-tap process to add songs to your Liked Songs playlist.

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Saturday
Oct052024

YouTube Shorts can now be 3 minutes long

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YouTube Shorts is rolling out some new features, including longer videos. The company's answer to TikTok can soon be up to three minutes long, which it said was a highly requested feature by users. Creators will get access to longer Shorts starting October 15.

Aside from extending the length of Shorts, YouTube introduced a template feature that allows you to match your clips to trending sounds taken from other videos.

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