{"id":36139,"date":"2021-07-29T19:34:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=36139"},"modified":"2021-07-29T19:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:34:28","slug":"instagram-reels-video-length-limit-expanded-to-60-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2021\/07\/29\/instagram-reels-video-length-limit-expanded-to-60-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Reels Video Length Limit Expanded to 60 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Instagram Reels can now be up to one minute long, double the previous 30-second time limit. Instagram initially debuted Reels with a brief 15-second time cap, then quickly doubled it just a month later. Reels is now nearly a year old, so it seems it\u2019s time for an update again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until recently, TikTok also capped videos at 60 seconds long, and it\u2019s with that time constraint that the platform really blew up. So it\u2019s probably wise that Instagram is expanding its short video limit to give creators a little more space to work with. TikTok\u2019s longer limits were better for cooking videos, storytelling, and plenty more, and they still maintained the app\u2019s quick-flipping pace of programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TikTok recently expanded its limit to three minutes for all creators, so it\u2019s probably a matter of time before Instagram nudges its cap even further. Instagram has yet to share in detail how well Reels is doing, but Instagram\u2019s leader, Adam Mosseri, said in January that \u201cwe have to be honest that TikTok is ahead.\u201d For what it\u2019s worth, I saw a ripped Instagram Reels video on TikTok for the first time recently, so that\u2019s something.<br><br>The Verge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram Reels can now be up to one minute long, double the previous 30-second time limit. Instagram initially debuted Reels with a brief 15-second time cap, then quickly doubled it just a month later. Reels is now nearly a year old, so it seems it\u2019s time for an update again. Until recently, TikTok also capped &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36142,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36139\/revisions\/36142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}