Between one rumor and another, Instagram did not let itself be dictated by the discoveries of the leakers but, with an official press release, it announced the launch of a novelty in favor of the creators, represented by the provision of songs “1 Minute Music “.
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The last year has been full of news for Instagram, just think of the voiceover, the arrival of music in the posts, the texts in 2 and 3D, the rhythmic musical effect Superbeat, and the recent restyling. To these and other novelties, another one has just been added, of a musical nature, followed by the usual round of gossip from the world of leakers.
Starting from an official novelty, albeit limited to India, Instagram announced, through the director of the Contents and Community Partnerships division of Facebook India (Meta), Paras Sharma, the launch of a novelty in concert with the music distribution company Believe which , in doing so he plans to “engage the audience for our artists and immerse their songs in pop culture” but also to provide a way for “emerging and established artists to understand how they have to think about videos in short”.
Specifically, the novelty in question, which should also stimulate the creation of further content, but also encourage emerging and established artists to propose their new music within Instagram as a self-promotion channel, has been baptized “1 Minute Music ”and is substantiated in exclusive 1-minute music tracks, accompanied by videos, which users can use in their Reels and in their Stories, drawing on the new contents within the Reels audio gallery.
All the original “1 Minute Music” is now collaborating, featuring over 200 famous Indian artists (also Punjabi, Hindi and Tamil), as well as names like Dhvani Bhanushali, GV Prakash Kumar, Neeti Mohan, Himanshi Khurana, Shaan, and Aniruth.
Moving on to the unofficial news as they were discovered via reverse engineering, new rumors have arrived from the leaker Alessandro Paluzzi: in one of them there is mention of a crop function that would allow you to crop the way in which posts can appear in the grid on your profile . Likewise, in the name of a novelty that would go well with the new interface, Instagram is working (in this case with the relative confirmation provided by CEO Adam Mosseri) on a function to upload photos in the vertical format at 9:16 on the screen. internal.