Instagram Stories launched Tuesday, and brands are already using the Snapchat-like feature, which lets marketers and the digital platform's 500 million monthly users curate daily moments that disappear after 24 hours. In fact, General Electric is using its first Instagram story to push a video series on Snapchat that features a data-driven exploration into Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua. Check out the following six stills from GE's first Instagram story (which also includes video but is not embeddable on third-party publisher sites). The brand is collecting much of its footage with drones. Other brands are also using Instagram Stories, including Arby's and Red Bull. Arby's campaign references the recent release of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with a series of hyper-lapse clips of the book's Golden Snitch character being made with the sandwich slinger's packaging. The story runs on Instagram through 1 p.m. today. Here are a few stills from the brand's virgin effort: The GIF on the right is one we created from the stills in Red Bull's first Instagram Stories clip. And on a business-to-business level, here's DigitasLBi simply saying "sup" in its first go at Instagram Stories: Tech industry watchers have noted similarities between Instagram's new offering and a couple of Snapchat features. Snapchat's Stories offer users a personal way to share photos and videos with followers, and the mobile app was a pioneer in disappearing content. Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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The mobile version of its ebook distribution platform will have more than 350,000 titles from IngramBooks. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Facebook is to release a new feature on its mobile app that will listen to and identify your music and TV shows before publishing them in a status update. Continue reading at BBC World
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Kobo's not quite done with the news tonight. In addition to an e-reader, three tablets and Pocket integration, the Canadian-turned-Japanese company has also got some announcements on the content side of things. First up is the addition of magazines to its store, bringing titles from Conde Nast,... Continue reading at Engadget
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Heavy hitters across several industries have tried to find the perfect balance between the old and the new to breathe some life into what's been described as a dying medium. Layar "wants to make the world clickable" with its augmented reality software and doesn't plan on letting paper-based... Continue reading at Engadget
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After months of planning, PARADE Magazine is rolling out a mobile app to cultivate advertisers and enhance the content offerings to its existing reader base. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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By Tim Conneally, Betanews Yahoo on Thursday announced that it will soon debut a new magazine-style method of digital content delivery especially aimed at touchscreen mobile devices like tablets and smartphones called Livestand."Publishers and advertisers must expand their content to [phones and... Continue reading at Betanews
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