Instagram story is a powerful and result driven medium to reach the right audience effectively. With over 500 million daily active users, Instagram provides a wonderful platform for business and creators to reach their desired audience.

Instagram users scroll Instagram mainly for stories and feed and if you capture them where they are mostly present then it will be a successful and smart business strategy. But what should you know as a business or creator to make your Instagram stories reach a wider audience?

Keep your message short and simple

Instagram stories run for a very short time. Hence it becomes very important to keep a clear, precise and attractive message on the story to capture the audience’s attention instantly. Know that videos run for 15 seconds and photos for 5. You have to derive a catchy message to grab your viewers within such a short time.

Keep up with the visuals

Don’t let your story ads be just a blank background and your message. That instantly pulls the audience away. If you want your audience to recognize your business and engage, create attractive visuals in the background with beautiful live effects and aesthetic images with the help of ads manager.

Importance of placing texts

Text placements on stories should be well strategized. Don’t make your text appear randomly anywhere with irregular size. Your texts should be well sized and placed at a proper place where the audience can know your message clearly.

Add music, GIFs, location and hashtags

Adding music to your story ads will give an additional attracting touch to your story. It can attract an audience towards your profile easily. Instagram has an endless number of trending music available. You should also add GIFs, location and hashtags will add more essence to your story ads making it appealing, relevant, engaging and beautiful. Add them according to the requirement.

As Instagram story ads provide you with lots of opportunity to reach and engage with larger audiences, it is your responsibility to provide them what they are looking for. Remember you make content for the audience. Make sure it is to their understanding and appealing.

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Instagram is taking one step ahead of building audience engagement with introducing story likes. Audience till now could react to the stories with a different set of emoji which shows up in direct messages. However the story will be visible in the same place where you can see your story views. This will help to avoid the crowds in DM like it happens with story reactions.

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What possibly the story likes can be beneficial for?

Instagram story is a whole different universe when it comes to sharing content. The content shared on stories has more reach than the actual posts. Even though the story vanishes in 24 hours, it is a major form of reaching your followers. The story likes opened a new way of engagement

Likes on stories will help to know the creators and business about what the audience thinks. Many people don’t like to share opinions about stories, likes on stories will help creators to know whether the content they are sharing on stories is successful or not.

The story likes will not be public, unlike Instagram posts, though Instagram now also gives the option to hide the like count to eliminate the competition for likes and motivate the creators. The story likes will be visible only to you, just like story views.

Instagram has been looking to protect the rights of its creators which can be seen in latest updates. Instagram gives options to hide like count, limit comments and interactions.

If you haven’t received the update of story likes yet, don’t worry because it hasn’t officially rolled out yet to the entire Instagram community but only as a testing to few audiences. This testing is to make sure the feature is well received and to know audience feedback on it.

Story likes are a very helpful feature. Just randomly posting without knowing what the audience thinks is unusual. Story likes will greatly help people to know about the success of the content.

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There are different tips and tricks for the users, business and creators for Instagram stories to make your story more appealing and unique

You can use the extra filter option for the background

This trick helps your story to find live backgrounds without downloading any additional apps for it. Just capture any blank color photo. Choose the filter option on the top right and there you will find many live filters like aqua glitter, lighstreak, heart flow and so on.

These filters are live filters which give live effect to your story background making it very attractive and pleasing. Then you can write text or add pictures like what you wanted to do with this beautiful background instead of a plain background.

Using ‘canva’ app

Canva app is a graphics template app that gives your background an amazing and attractive template. This app is beneficial especially for small businesses where hiring graphic designers can add additional cost to the business. This app can be used by any beginner who doesn’t have much knowledge about graphics and design. This app allows users to have background templates as per your requirement whether you want dimensions for insta post of 1:1 or insta story of 9:16.

Adding special touch with music

Instagram has its own special feature of adding music to the stories. You don’t have to use a different app to add music. Avoid all the hustle with Instagram music. All the latest and trending songs are available in Instagram music. Even the trending music and sound effects used in TikTok are available on Instagram music too. Add the music for the special touch to your story.

Keep up with the story dimension

It is advised to keep up with the Instagram story dimension of 9:16 because when you use different dimensions, a lot of spaces are left empty. This problem doesn’t arise when you use Instagram camera to click the photo but when you use photos from your phone gallery dimensions might not be the same.

But the empty spaces can be filled with other attractive features of Instagram story like adding text, GIFs, fun stickers, hashtags and location. You can use different creative ideas to fill up the space to make the story more attractive and appealing.

Instagram story is a very attractive and unique way to showcase your daily activities which you like to share or business to increase the audience engagement. Instagram stories have unique features which makes it competitive and different from the rival Snapchat story.

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