yep Instagram has launched another new feature Instagram rooms what are Instagram rooms how do you use them and how does this benefit us the users and creators what's up everyone it's Modern Millie welcome or welcome back to my channel where I post videos every Wednesday teaching you the latest strategies and Trends on social media to help bloggers influencers and content creators grow their brands so give a little love tap on that subscribe button to stay up to date on all the latest tips and tricks that I have for you first I want to say a
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it let's go straight to the source we're going to be taking a look at Instagram's most recent blog post called doubling up on Instagram live with live rooms which I'll be sure to link down below what are live rooms live rooms give you the ability to go live on Instagram with not one not two but up to three people at once Instagram says that the update is another step forward in giving creators more ways to reach and interact with their audience and gives creators even more ways to build a business and earn money first let's
talk about the increase of reach when using rooms I've always encouraged my students to go live with other creators within their niche as a way to increase their following because when someone goes live with you their followers are notified too bringing potentially in twice the amount of people into your live if you win some hearts over with what you're talking about in the live this can be a great chance in exchanging audiences and increasing your growth Instagram confirms that this is the same with rooms they say going live with multiple guests is a great way
to increase your reach as guests followers can also be notified okay now let's talk about the money side of things on May 27th 2020 last year Instagram announced in a blog post called doing more to support creators on Instagram the new badges feature so badges are a way that you can monetarily support another Creator during lives badges appear next to the person's name throughout the live video and fans who have purchased badges in lives Will Stand Out Among the comments and unlock other additional features with live rooms viewers can buy badges for the hosts and
use other interactive features such as shopping and live fundraisers this is just the beginning for live rooms though because moving forward there are a few things that we can expect while other countries were able to beta test rooms before we got to see it over here in the US live rooms will soon be available for everyone globally which is actually quicker than reals considering there are some countries that still don't have access to reals yet another thing Instagram also said in their blog that they are going to be exploring more interactive tools such as using
moderator controls other audio features that will be available in the months to come so let's dive into a screen recording tutorial to start an Instagram room is the same thing as going live so you would swipe left on your main feed and at the bottom where you see stories reals lives all that fun stuff you'll swipe to the live section here you'll have the option to add a title to your live which you can edit whatever you want this title is what your followers will see when you go live and then from there you go
live while you are live I'll show you two ways that you can have people join your rooms the first way I'll show you is from the viewers perspective so if somebody comes into your live as a viewer they'll get a little popup or a notification that says request to be in modern Millie's video so they could send a request and when they send that request it will ping to the Creator's live saying hey this person requested to be in your video from there the Creator can add up to three participants within the room so that
is one way to get people to join your room having those multiple guests another way is just from the Creator's side they could go to the add button on the bottom it's like a little camera with the plus symbol click that and they could select up to three people to add and send an invite to the room if you send an invite to somebody who isn't already watching your live Instagram will send them a little notification saying hey Millie requested for you to join her live so that is a few ways to get people into
an Instagram room so me the person who started the live I would consider myself to be the host or the moderator of that room I can invite at least three other people to join my live those three other people when they are in the live or when they are in the room they have no other functionalities that they can do to help moderate the room they just have the option to flip their camera back in front or add a face filter and then the moderator the person who started the live they have one additional feature
as of right now and that feature is adding those extra guests approving disapproving anybody who has requested to go live again this will change in the months to come just like Instagram had mentioned with Instagram most recent features being Instagram rooms and reals it is very apparent that there are currently pushing out video content I wouldn't be surprised if later this year they Advance their igtv ads functionalities if you haven't heard of igtv ads igtv ads was also mentioned in that second blog post I mentioned earlier as another way for creators to make money through
their app it's basically Instagram's version of YouTube ads so when you're on YouTube you watch this video there was probably an ad here and there Instagram is now implementing those sort of functionalities for igvs I I wouldn't be surprised if later this year they keep expanding on the monetary options for creators to keep them on the app and especially because this is a video forward piece of content they'll definitely want people to start using it so that's just a little prediction on my end so what does this mean for you as an Instagram Creator and
user moving forward if you hav't hopped on the video making train yet it's not too late get on it okay and Instagram plans to evolve with the times so the sooner you become a first adapter the better chance you have of growing and increasing your reach on Instagram if live rooms is intimidating to you right now you can absolutely focus on reals and then just try to challenge yourself to go live once a month okay I always say to be realistic with your Instagram posting strategy and whatever that is try to do it consistently okay
now that we have like the basics of the facts this is Instagram rooms this is how to do it all the all the things I'm pretty sure I've covered all the basis I just wanted to quickly say my thoughts on this thing um it's funny because Instagram was teasing a an exciting announcement and I had a completely different vision for what Instagram rooms would be for anybody who follows me on Instagram you know that I was already talking about Instagram rooms a month and a half ago cuz I'm so cool I already knew it was
going to happen but I was not expecting rooms to be like this I don't think that this was like a huge big deal announcement it's just live and instead of two people it's four I'm not too excited about this I think it could be a great way to collaborate connect with other people definitely thought Instagram rooms would be more of a competitive feature considering Clubhouse and the outbreak of clubhouse as of lately they've kind of been blowing up definitely was thinking Instagram rooms would be more of an audio focus functionality and not so much video
I think it's hard to compare the two because they're completely different at first I wanted to compare the two and say Instagram rooms is stupid because it's all face and I liked Clubhouse because I didn't have to get ready but they're completely different so I don't think we can really compare them in that sort of way even though I might not be the most excited about Instagram rooms right now or super hyped on them I am interested in seeing how they evolve and what sort of other features Instagram adds to them moving forward hopefully giving
us more flexibility I don't know with the functionalities as a moderator and also as somebody who's joining the Instagram rooms that's just what I'm curious about I might not be the biggest hype man about them I'm not saying they're the most amazing thing in the world but I am interested to see how they affect our accounts and how using them can help us grow all the things because all the things I'm going to stop talking because I'll just keep rambling so if you've made it this far and you're not already subscribed click that subscribe button
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