Instagram Instants Explained: Here Today, Gone in 24
Emma Goode2026-04-25T11:54:15+00:00Meta has launched a new app. It’s called Instagram Instants. It lets you send disappearing photos that vanish after 24 hours and can only be [...]
Instagram Just Got a Glow-Up: April 2026’s New Features Worth Paying Attention To
Emma Goode2026-04-10T08:17:45+00:00Instagram has been busy. And when we say busy, we mean the kind of busy where you blink and half a dozen things have changed [...]
Instagram Growth Tips: The Inside Scoop From Instagram Themselves
Emma Goode2025-08-28T20:19:30+00:00Here’s the thing about Instagram growth advice – there’s a lot of noise out there. Between conflicting strategies, outdated tactics, and the occasional suggestion to [...]
Instagram Updates You Need to Know This Week
Emma Goode2025-08-15T07:19:23+00:00So Instagram’s been busy this week. Three new features dropped, and while the platform’s clearly playing catch-up with everyone else, there are some genuinely clever [...]
How often should I post on social media in 2023?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2023-01-15T13:48:39+00:00“How often should I post on social media in 2023?” That is the billion-dollar question.If we had a pound for every time we’d been asked that question we’d be…well, we’d [...]
Meta announces the launch of “Digital Collectibles” on Instagram
Rose Merchant2022-08-15T08:26:41+00:00Facebook and Instagram are up to their antics AGAIN. As a business owner, it can be hard to keep up with the ever-changing information circling the web. Don’t panic [...]
Rediscovering your brand on Instagram
Millie Usher-Tollan2022-08-02T14:54:42+00:00Calling all Insta Kings and Queens 🤳 The platform has recently announced the introduction of their new algorithm, where users will be able to view their feed in chronological [...]
Do you love using emojis? You’ll be a fan of emoji 15.0 then
Lola Kingsnorth2022-07-21T17:54:14+00:00In celebration of emoji day, Emojipedia have released sample images of new emoji designs hopefully to be approved in September of this year. 31 emojis are up for approval [...]
Time ladies and gents, please: what brands need to know about the Chronological Instagram feed
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2022-05-18T08:44:38+00:00For Instagram OGs, the recent announcement of a return to a chronological feed if we so choose it sounded like music to their reels. However, if you’ve not been [...]
Social media trends 2022: What should you be looking out for?
Scheenagh Harrington2022-03-17T08:19:03+00:00We can hardly believe it's time to look ahead to the social media trends of 2022 as 2021 draws to a close. It’s been a busy 12 months, from [...]
Instagram allows posting from a desktop but Facebook’s Meta steals its thunder
Scheenagh Harrington2021-10-29T08:51:33+00:00You know the saying “always the bridesmaid, never the bride”? We wonder if Instagram feels a little like that at the moment. Just when it was enjoying a moment [...]
You’re our Favourite: Instagram developing new feature to help prioritise user feeds
Scheenagh Harrington2021-09-17T08:06:51+00:00Can you imagine what life would be like if every acquaintance you’d ever made turned up at your front door, demanding you listen to the latest thing they had [...]
Forget swiping up in Stories as Instagram debuts the Link Sticker
Scheenagh Harrington2021-08-26T20:25:43+00:00We love it when the social media giants play with their toys, and Facebook-owned Instagram is the latest platform to fiddle around with its features - so to speak. [...]
How to run a social media audit
Scheenagh Harrington2022-01-07T09:01:31+00:00From a certain point of view, social media looks easy peasy: chuck out the odd quote from someone famous here for Facebook, throw together a quick Instagram video on [...]
Should a business be on every social media platform?
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-23T09:08:13+00:00Never let it be said we don’t appreciate the value of choice here at 24 fingers (just ask Emma about shoes) but - and we can barely believe we’re [...]
Back of the net: why Euro 2020 and social media are a marketing marriage made in heaven
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-02T17:46:18+00:00Tomorrow night, eight o’clock. Stadio Olimpico, Italy. Euro 2020. If you’re not among the millions who will be an inch away from their TV screens, smartphones clutched in their [...]
Instagram Reels ads gets an international launch
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-18T10:03:47+00:00The world of social media never stands still, not for one second. It's part of the reason we love it, but the speed of change can take some business [...]
Instagram adds Reels Insights feature as it chases rival TikTok
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-04T07:08:33+00:00Blur vs Oasis. Microsoft vs Apple. Coke vs Pepsi. They are among some of the greatest rivalries the world has ever known. Now you can add Instagram Reels Insights [...]
24 fingers crossed, you’ll soon be able to post to Instagram from your desktop
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-05-21T14:07:12+00:00Instagram has always had a mobile-first approach. Which is great, if you’re out and about and using the app as it was originally intended, to post insta(nt) photos of what [...]
Emma Goode named an adviser for Enterprise Nation business.connected programme in partnership with Vodafone
Scheenagh Harrington2021-05-21T14:14:39+00:00If there's one thing you have to be good at in business, it's making connections: whether it's communicating with customers or chatting to supplier partners, relationships are the grease that [...]
Instagram Remix: Insta gives its Reels a new twist
Scheenagh Harrington2021-04-09T06:43:57+00:00Just when you think you've got to grips with the latest video-sharing technology on the web, they go all Etch-a-Sketch on us and give everything a good shake, this [...]
Do Instagram Engagement Pods Work?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-03-22T21:33:55+00:00Let’s face it, we’ve all had times when we’ve popped a post up on Instagram, and…well…nothing. Or at least, not a lot. Sometimes, posting on [...]
24 Tips to Grow your Instagram Followers
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-03-16T21:36:47+00:00If you’re on any of the social media platforms, you’ve probably asked yourself countless times, how do you go about growing your followers? And when [...]
How often should you post on social media in 2021?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-02-12T11:52:08+00:00Let’s face it: over the past year, we’ve all had a lot more time on our hands to be scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. And while social media has been fantastic [...]
Instagram unveils its Professional Dashboard for businesses
Scheenagh Harrington2021-01-29T11:49:50+00:00For millions of businesses across the country, 2020 was pretty much one to forget, and this year isn’t panning out quite as many had hoped. [...]
Our top social media trends of 2021
Scheenagh Harrington2021-01-13T15:49:15+00:00Last year was… how can we put it politely? Ah yes, a hot mess, what with all the disruption, stress and grief caused by the [...]
What the Dickens! Our festive look back at social media in 2020
Scheenagh Harrington2020-12-17T16:12:55+00:00“Thank God it’s Kerrrissssmaaaas” sang Freddie Mercury, and ho-ho-so say all of us! Yes, we can barely see our keyboards for the tinsel and we’re [...]
How to use Instagram Live for your business
Scheenagh Harrington2020-12-04T13:22:41+00:00There was a time, not so long ago, when watching live telly was a national pastime, from Saturday morning kids’ shows to special episodes of [...]
Twitter launches 24-hour Fleets, jumping on the short-term content bandwagon
Scheenagh Harrington2020-11-26T15:18:04+00:00Nothing stands still in the social media world for long, that’s part of the reason we love it so much – there’s rarely a dull [...]
Facebook unveils Vanish mode for Instagram and Messenger
Scheenagh Harrington2020-11-20T13:44:10+00:00In October, Egyptian archeologists made headlines around the world after they uncovered more than 100 perfectly preserved ancient sarcophaguses, buried over 2,500 years ago. History [...]