New Delhi: Meta-owned Instagram on Wednesday launched new options to the app in India, together with Instagram Gifts and new enhancing updates on Reels, to assist creators unleash their creativity and earn extra from their Reels content material.

Today, the corporate showcased the brand new Instagram options at a product training workshop in its Mumbai workplace.

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

With Instagram Gifts, creators can obtain presents from followers who buy them straight throughout the Instagram app utilizing Stars.

“Viewers can purchase stars and use them to send you gifts on Instagram. Instagram will then provide you with a revenue share from your Reels that received gifts on a monthly basis equal to $.01 for every star received from fans,” stated Instagram.

Gifts shall be rolling out in India within the subsequent few weeks.

Moreover, the corporate has launched new updates to its Reels editor globally, which is able to come within the subsequent few weeks.

The replace contains options like Split, Speed, and Replace.

Users can now simply break up a single clip into two clips with ‘Split’, and might pace up or decelerate their clips with ‘Speed’.

With Replace, customers can swap one clip out for one more with out altering the timing or order of different clips, audio and different parts of their reels.

The firm additionally launched GIF feedback on posts and Reels, which is now accessible globally.