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Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. The Verge is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 26 Oct 2026, 16:05 UTC. The headline in use is “Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform "for a long time," he says in a six-and-a-half-minute video (here's the widescreen version) with VP of product Tessa Lyons, saying…
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- First reported by The Verge
Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos
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