More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in ...

Platforms built to connect people, for better or for worse, are now for doing the opposite.

Meta is rolling out some serious changes to Facebook Reels to make the experience more like Instagram Reels. First of all, the Reels will now be accompanied by friend bubbles. This shows users which ...

Recently published data shows that most Instagram ads ran on Reels in 2025, playing into Meta’s efforts to push engagements ...

The system supports translations across English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hindi, including Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, ...

While Meta’s Reels share continues to grow year-over-year, YouTube’s watch time for Shorts remained flat last year.

Meta just announced several updates coming to Facebook during the company’s IRL event in Austin. It's testing an Explore tab and adding a new video tab. Let’s start with the Explore tab. If you’ve ...

In the dizzying arms race of social media, Instagram is reportedly considering an important move to gain an advantage: spinning off its short-form video feature, Reels, into a standalone app.

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Instagram head Adam Mosseri has confirmed via his official social media handle that Instagram is adding support for five more languages – Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, and Kannada.