Social Six: 6 Instagram updates you need to know about in April.

The Social Six brings you 6 things every month you need to be across when it comes to the world of social media.

Written by Gambit Collective’s Social Media Account Manager - Laura Hodges.

Hashtags

Instagram now recommends only using 3-6 hashtags on your posts and reels. However, adding a detailed caption  detail in your will also helps the algorithm know who to serve your content to. 

Broadcast channels

You may have seen creators starting one-way broadcast channels where they can share messages, posts and more right to the inbox of all members in their channel. 

Meta verified

For $24.99 (AUD) per month, Meta will allow you to access new features including increased reach, enhanced verification, more protection, access to Meta support (from a real person) and other exclusives. Do you think it’s worth it?

The chronological feed is back. 

FINALLY the feed will return to it’s rightful order! 

Text to speech on reels.

You can now use text to speech to add narration to a video without using voiceover. PLUS voice effects are also available. 

No more live shopping!

You will no longer be able to tag products in live broadcasts. The shop feature is still available via profiles, in-feed or ads.