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.

Meta is taking the Instagram Reels experience to the larger screens in its latest testing program, with the dedicated TV app ...

Meta is starting to test a new Instagram app for TVs that lets you watch Reels on a big screen. The app will be available ...

Facebook is taking another step to encourage users to create original content for its TikTok clone. The company introduced a new “sharing to Reels” feature to allow users of third-party apps to post ...

If there was ever any doubt about just how much of a threat TikTok poses to Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg recently cleared things up when he cited the competitor as the reason Facebook lost users for the ...

Instagram and TikTok’s apps might look even more similar before long. Instagram just announced a test rolling out to “a small group of people“ that makes Reels the default tab view when you launch the ...

Reels are all the rage these days and everyone is looking for the best and easiest way to edit an Insta reel. And the internet is flooded with tons of third-party apps to edit reels on your smartphone ...

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Meta is going all in to expand the reach of its short video products. In the latest step to those offerings widely reachable, the company is launching a Facebook Reels API for developers to integrate ...

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Meta-owned Instagram is reportedly planning to launch a separate app for its short-form video-sharing feature Reels. The social media giant is looking to take advantage of China’s ByteDance-owned ...