Insta introduces Gifts on Reels, new editing features in India

New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram on Wednesday introduced new features to the app in India, including Instagram Gifts and new editing updates on Reels, to help creators unleash their creativity and earn more from their Reels content. So to receive.

Today, the company showcased the new Instagram features at a product education workshop at its Mumbai office.

“Every day, teens and creators are using Instagram to tell their story in exciting ways. It’s happening on Reels as well as other surfaces like Feed, Stories, and DMs. We’re committed to inspiring creativity. wanted to highlight these diverse use cases, as well as highlight some of the new features that will help them build an engaged community,” Paras Sharma, Director of Content and Community Partnerships at Facebook India (Meta), said in a statement. ”

With Instagram Gifts, creators can receive gifts from fans who purchase them directly from the Instagram app using Stars.

“Viewers can purchase Stars and use them to send you gifts on Instagram. Instagram will then provide you with a share of the revenue from your Reels on a monthly basis equal to $.01 for each Star received from fans” Gets it,” Instagram said.

Gifts in India will start rolling out over the next few weeks.

In addition, the company has rolled out new updates for its Reels editor globally, which will arrive over the next few weeks.

The update includes features like Split, Speed ​​and Replace.

Users can now easily split a clip into two clips with ‘Split’, and speed up or slow down their clips with ‘Speed’.

With Replace, users can swap out one clip for another without changing the timing or order of other clips, audio, and other elements in their reels.

The company also introduced GIF comments on posts and reels, which is now available globally.