What's up Social Savvy Social Thursday today? I'm sure you're already aware that Instagram

has video. If you don't, then I am so proud of you for staying away from the computer

for the last week, good for you. Just you know I was one of like five million videos

that were uploaded within the twenty-four hours of this update for the app. A lot of

video activity happening. But how many times have you heard me tell you, you need to be

doing video? Well, here we go again, however I am going to give you specifics of how you

can actually do well with video on Instagram itself.

First things first, stop worrying about Vine and certainly don't refilm something that

you're going to put on Vine and then also putting on Instagram. Luckily this is in a

situation where you can just copy paste like you can on Facebook and Twitter, update one

place and it goes to both. You can't do that with these two networks, Vine is six seconds

and Instagram is 15. Do you know what that means? The content should be different, because

you don't just fill up that time with whatever, it's a specific amount of time you need to

plan for. That's right. I just told you to plan for six seconds. I just told you to plan

for fifteen seconds. Time isn't wasted.

People on Instagram are used to looking at photos, so don't waste their time with an

extended video of something they don't really care about. Use up that time wisely. Next

piece of advice, definitely keep up the vibe that was already going on your Instagram account.

No matter if the pictures were moving or not there was a certain ambience that people like

to [bud] your account which is why they subscribe. So don't change that with these videos that

are wildly different than what you had going on. Stay consistent, keep followers, get more

followers. Get it.

Hashtags are even more important than they've ever been. But it was definitely standing

out in hashtag activity because of the little video symbol on each thumbnail. So people

are searching specifically for video content and a hashtag that's one way of standing out

and getting new eyes on your content. In any case, the thumbnail is hugely important and

Instagram is giving you the opportunity to pick what that looks like instead of just

being the first frame. So definitely be aware of what thumbnail you're using because you

got to pick it and stick with it and whether or not that's going to get the attention that

you're hoping the video as a whole is looking to attract.

Last, please don't forget to keep taking photos. Instagram is built on photography. So let's

stick with that too. If you're completely away from that it's just going to seem like

you decided to have a Vine account on your Instagram following and people may not like

that as much. They might have liked your photography which is why they're following you in the

first place. New features are great but not always appropriate. So keep that in mind.

PS. If it's bad audio, take a picture. It doesn't matter if it would have been better

as a video. If it's bad audio nobody's watching it. [That's all]. Thank you so much for watching.

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