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Instagram For Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Instagram For Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Eric Butow, Corey Walker
December 2024
Beginner
368 pages
10h 47m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 17

Using Highlights to Keep Stories Longer

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Learning about story highlight galleries

Bullet Exploring how to create your own highlights

Bullet Discovering how to add more content to your highlights

When you start using Instagram stories, you can keep those stories alive longer! Stories disappear after 24 hours, so it can be frustrating to know that the content you create is lost. Fortunately, highlights allow you to select certain stories that will stay active on your profile in galleries you set up.

In this chapter, we explain how to set up highlights and how to add content to them. We also talk about some of the reasons why you may want to use highlights and give you some creative ideas.

Getting Acquainted with Highlights

Story highlights are the series of circles directly below a person’s bio on their Instagram profile (see Figure 17-1). A person may have only a few of these galleries or a number of them that you can scroll through.

Each highlight gallery is a collection of stories from that account. One story post or a series of story posts from various times are uploaded to each highlight.

A story disappears from the account after 24 hours, but highlights are an ...

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