Surely you have asked yourself this question on some occasion and the answer may be somewhat confusing because depends. And it is not the same as wanting to publish a video in your stories. Instagram, to make a live stream or upload a post to your feed. The maximum duration What a video published on this social network can have is therefore very different depending on "the format." We give you all the times.
Stories
Originally, you could upload stories with a maximum of 15 seconds and it was even possible to intertwine multiple stories if you needed to post a slightly longer video. However, since 2021 late, videos up to 60 seconds They are not cut into segments, so you can upload them directly without problems.
Reels
With one of the latest Instagram updates, the maximum time for this type of content changed. Now we can go up reels with a maximum duration of 60 seconds, with as many clips as you want inside.
When it comes to uploading videos to Instagram, Reels has become the most popular option today, far above feed videos, which have almost been abandoned by the community. This is because Instagram is encouraging the upload of Reels, adapting the app to full screen so that we can navigate between different Reels comfortably, but leaving aside the rest of other types of publications. For this reason, these types of publications - which are nothing more than a way of trying to emulate the success of TikTok, but on Instagram - have become the easiest way to create content for Instagram and achieve some relevance and virality.
Feed
If you decide to upload videos to the feed of a lifetime, the limit for each clip is 60 seconds. Here we can add a maximum of 10 clips in gallery mode with the same duration.
The great thing about the Feed is that you can tell a story with each post. You don't have to overlap the clips, but each fragment can be different. Used well, feed-type publications can give a lot of play on a creative level.
Now that it is clear what is the maximum accepted by this social network, surely the question of Is there a way to bypass these limits and upload longer videos to Instagram? And the truth is that yes, but with some exceptions since we can only do it in the publications of our feed o in the stories of Instagram.
Will this limit change in the future?
The Meta group's social network confirmed a while ago that it had plans to go changing these limits so as not to fall behind its competitors. TikTok announced in 2022 that its platform would support slightly longer videos and Instagram, for its part, although it has not changed the limits of its Reels, it has done so with those of the Stories, since one minute can be uploaded without cuts, -something that users have been crying out for for a long time.
What is certain is that Instagram does not lack competition. TikTok It started to make it difficult for them starting in 2020 and youtube shorts He also joined the short video party, although without enjoying the push of the Chinese, it must be said. The funny thing is that once the boom in ultra-short videos arrived, people began to ask for slightly longer videos. Anyway, not even we, the users, can clarify…