A new leak suggests that Instagram is working on Reels that will offer automatic downloads and offline streaming.

Meta's Instagram wants to make it easier for marketers to buy ads placed against viral moments in its short-form Reels videos ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video product Reels in 2025, up from 35% in 2024, according to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The shift ...

Instagram is finally letting people take the wheel of their Reels feed, instead of leaving everything up to a mysterious algorithm. After testing the feature with select users last October, Instagram ...

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Sit back with Reels on a big screen. Sit back with Reels on a big screen. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.

Instagram is making the jump from mobile devices to the living-room TV for the first time — a bid to ratchet up viewing of short-form Reels, by taking videos to the biggest screen in the house. The ...

Meta is giving Instagram users a rare glimpse into why certain posts are showing up on their Reels, the platform’s feed of algorithmically curated videos. Starting today, users will now see a list of ...

With short-form video now dominant on social media, researchers are racing to understand how the highly engaging, algorithm-driven format may be reshaping the brain. From TikTok to Instagram Reels and ...