You don’t want to save all of your content to your highlights – only the important bits. You can even name each of them and add fancy Instagram Highlight cover images so they match your branding! Then you can add those past stories onto your feed in the form of a mini ‘highlight reel’ or playlist. Using the Highlights feature, you can adjust your settings to archive your stories in Instagram. The only downside to stories is that they last for 24 hours and then poof – they disappear! That’s where the new ‘Highlights’ feature comes into play. Save them to your phone roll, and then copy & paste into your Stories when posting! Read all about it here. Think that branded stickers can only be added by those that have GIPHY accounts? It ain’t so! Stickers can be created as frame-by-frame GIFs in Easil, and exported out as transparent stickers. CREATE BRANDED GIF STICKERS FOR YOUR INSTAGRAM STORIES We thought we’d add 3 more “hot tips” to help you get results with Instagram and Instagram Stories. Now that you are excited about the potential for your business or brand with these Instagram Story Ideas, let’s take it a little further. Take Your Instagram Stories Further – 3 Hot Tips Hit the ‘Dance Cut’ button to let Instagram automatically cut and dice your video content to sync to some recommended tunes! Hot tip: You can also use this video content as an Instagram Reel base. Easil will join all your images together into a slideshow MP4 that you can then send to your Phone, add music, and you’re done! When complete, click on the Download button, and choose the MP4 format and a speed for your images to play through.

Optionally add graphic elements to your images too.

Keep going with adding multiple pages and swapping out the Images.

Add your photo on the first page, and then duplicate the template or add a new page, replacing the image on the page.

Jump into Easil and create a Story – it can be a blank page, or a format that allows for an image to be dropped in.

Wondering what to do with all of those photos you’ve been hoarding on your phone, but not quite ready to make them a solo focus in an Instagram Story? This hack is for you!

Post an image mash-up as a weekly or monthly recap slideshow

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