Instagram not only grants the ability to share your posts to an Instagram story, but allows you to add pictures posted by your friends, favorite influencers, and other accounts you follow.
This feature can also be useful for brands who want to create more engagement and keep their Instagram account active.
For privacy reasons, this option is only available for accounts that have allowed sharing of their posts. If you try to share a post to your Instagram story from someone else's private account, the feature will not be available.
If you want to share a post to your Instagram story, here's how to do it.
1. Open the Instagram app on your phone.
2. Locate the post you want to share in your Instagram story on your feed.
3. Tap the paper airplane icon.
Tap the paper airplane icon. Devon Delfino/Insider4. The Share menu will appear.
5. Tap the first option, Add post to your story.
Tap Add post to your story.
Devon Delfino/Insider 6. The photo or video post will automatically upload as a story draft.
7. Tap the icons at the top of the window to add stickers or gifs, draw, or type text.
Make the changes or additions you want to make. Devon Delfino/Insider8. Tap Your Story in the bottom left-hand corner to post, or select Close Friends if you want to share it less widely.
Quick tip: You can do this whether you're finding a post on someone's profile using the Explore page, or when it pops up directly on your feed.
Like any Instagram user, brands can use stories to keep their account active. But it can also be a valuable way to share behind-the-scenes content and build a deeper relationship with your audience.
If you create a brand-specific hashtag, you can find posts from people who already love and use your product or service. You can then share those posts to your stories to keep your audience engaged and notified about the brands movements.
This accomplishes two things: it allows you to showcase your brand or product to a wider pool of Instagram users. Second, it lets the brand showcase authentic user-generated content that shows how the products can be incorporated into the everyday life of a customer.
Quick tip: If desired, you can also add a link to a specific product, or your site, to make it easier for people to find the product that's being displayed.
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Marissa Perino is a former editorial intern covering executive lifestyle. She previously worked at Cold Lips in London and Creative Nonfiction in Pittsburgh. She studied journalism and communications at the University of Pittsburgh, along with creative writing. Find her on Twitter: @mlperino.
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Devon Delfino is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist specializing in personal finance, culture, politics, and identity.
Her work has been featured in publications such as The Los Angeles Times, Teen Vogue, Business Insider, and CNBC. Follow her on Twitter at @devondelfino.
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One of the best ways to increase engagement and grow your following is to build a community by reposting photos, Stories, and videos you think your audience will enjoy.
Instagram is one of the few social media platforms where you’re discouraged from sharing posts belonging to others. There’s no easy way (yet) to share photos, videos, or Stories on the native Instagram platform, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
If finding and reposting awesome content created by others is more your speed, read on. We’ll talk about how to easily repost photos and videos on Instagram and avoid legal issues.
While it seems like the internet is a lawless land, where folks share all kinds of content without giving it much thought, the truth is that it is illegal to repost copyright-protected content that you don’t have permission to share.
According to Instagram’s Community Guidelines, you should only share photos and videos that you’ve taken or that you have the right to share. If you do want to share content created by others, always ask permission to repost the photo or video on your Instagram, give proper credit within your caption, and tag the image with their Instagram handle.
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Instagram Stories let you create and share multiple photos, videos, polls, and other content that is put together in a slideshow format for your followers to watch over the course of 24 hours. Using Instagram Stories is essential to growing an engaged following on Instagram, and reposting Stories is a great way to build up your community.
As a general rule, Instagram has never been about sharing content posted by other users, but in the summer 2018, the platform rolled out a new feature — the ability to share Stories you’re tagged with on your own Instagram account. This has been a game changer in many ways, making Instagram Stories one of the best ways to connect with your followers.
If a friend tags you in one of their Stories, you will get a direct message from Instagram letting you know. For the next 24 hours, you’ll be able to repost the Story.
Here’s how to repost an Instagram Story you’ve been tagged in:
Your new Story is live!
If you’re using the native Instagram app, you can only save and repost Stories that you’re tagged in. When someone tags you in a Story, they are essentially giving you permission to repost it.
If you have verbal permission to repost an Instagram Story but haven’t been tagged in it, there’s an iPhone workaround that you can use with your built-in screen recorder.
Here’s how to record someone’s Story and save it to your Camera Roll:
Screen recordings are automatically saved to Camera Roll. Once you’ve saved someone’s Instagram Story as a video, you can edit it and repost it to your own Story. You should always give proper credit by tagging the original Instagram account, and again, you should never repost someone’s Story without permission.
As you already know, whenever you’re tagged in someone’s Instagram Story, you receive a direct message letting you know that you have been mentioned. You will get this message whether you’re being tagged in one of the user’s original Stories or one of your own Stories that they are reposting.
However, if someone creates a screen recording of your Story, saves it to their Camera Roll, and then reposts it, you won’t be notified unless they voluntarily tag you. This is because they have essentially created a new Story using your content. If someone shares your Story in a private message, you won’t be notified either.
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There are definitely ways to repost photos and videos on Instagram, and as long as you have permission from the post’s original creator, it’s totally fine to do so. None of the reposting methods available are completely straightforward, as Instagram is primarily focused on creating original content, not sharing the content of others.
Here are some ways that we’ve found to repost photos and videos to your Instagram feed or Stories.
Probably the simplest way to repost photos and videos on Instagram is to take a screenshot or make a screen recording of the post you want to share. We already talked about taking a screen recording using the feature in your iPhone’s settings.
To take a screenshot of an Instagram photo, simply navigate to the post you want to share, and hold down the Home and Power buttons at the same time.
This will capture whatever is on your screen and save it to your Camera Roll.
After the screenshot is taken, tap on its preview to crop the image and get rid of the Instagram logo, comments, and other distractions. Once you’ve edited the photo, you can repost it to your Instagram feed.
Whether you’re posting an Instagram post or sharing a Story, you can tag accounts to alert them to your post and help expand your reach. Below, you’ll find instructions for tagging someone in your Instagram posts and Stories.
Tagging accounts in your Instagram posts is easy. You can tag up to 20 accounts for each Instagram post. Here’s how to do it:
Instagram will help you out by auto-populating suggestions. You can tag up to 20 people using this method. You can also tag people in Instagram Stories. Anyone you tag will be able to share that Story with their own followers. Here’s how to tag an account using the text tool or the @ sticker:
Yes! Instagram rolled out a feature last year that makes this very easy to do using the native Instagram app. If you find an Instagram photo or video that you want to repost in your
Stories, just do this:
You can customize the post in your Stories making it smaller or larger, adding stickers or text. When you finally share it with your followers, Instagram will automatically tag the post’s original creator.
The easiest way to repost Instagram posts with captions that you have permission to share is to use a third-party app. The most popular of these is Repost for Instagram, allowing you to repost with just a few taps.
Repost for Instagram adds a small watermark to the corner of the post, providing attribution to the original creator.
You should also tag the creator both on the image and in the captions. Once you’ve got the post uploaded in Repost for Instagram, you can copy and paste the original caption to add to your post.
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You can definitely repost your own photo or video on Instagram. In fact, this is a great way to repurpose your content. You just need to be careful that you’re not reposting the same photo or video so many times that it gets old to your followers.
You can use the Repost for Instagram app mentioned above, which will tag you in its included watermark. Your alternative option would be to screenshot your photo, crop it in a photo editing app, and repost that way.
Until Instagram embraces sharing content across its platform, you’ll have to get creative with how you do it. The most important things to remember when reposting on Instagram are to always ask permission and to give proper attribution.
If you’ve covered your bases legally, Instagram is perfectly happy with you sharing the best content you can find across your feed and your Stories.
The Instagram Stories* section is amazing with so many possibilities. Among them there are functions without which the SMM manager is like without hands. Let's talk about simple but effective: how to share a story on Instagram*, post an IGTV announcement or a post there.
Let's figure out what exactly you can repost in your stories:
Let's see how it works.
When your account is tagged in a story, a tag notification will be sent to your private messages.
It also contains an active "Add Story" link to click on.
The standard window for editing Stories will open. Optionally, you can add a link (available for accounts with more than 10,000 followers), stickers, text, and filters.
Next, send the post to your stories. Done - you are amazing!
To share your or someone else's post on your story, click on the airplane icon below the post and select "Add post to your Story". The story editing page will open, where you can add a link, stickers, and more. nine0003 Share the post in your Story and enjoy
By the way, if you don't want your stories to be reposted all in a row, disable this feature in the settings.
Find Stories in the Privacy section, manage reposts there The principle here is the same as for posts.
If you want to share, for example, a cool live stream, start watching in the IGTV section of the blogger who hosted it, click the plane below the video and select "Add video to your Story." nine0003 Post from your Story with some kind of inscription to encourage viewing
For those who like to work from a computer, the SMMplanner delayed posting service allows you to repost posts in the Stories of any of your Instagram accounts*.
Start planning your Story with the click of a button Select the account where you want to post in the StoryGo to the "Stickers" tab and select the "Post" sticker Posts of your account have opened, select the one you need Done. Position the main image of the post and publishIf you select a project with several accounts, you will be able to announce the post of one account in the History of another. nine0003
Read more about delayed posting of Stories with cool design in the article “Delayed Instagram* Stories Constructor by SMMplanner”.
Reposts on Instagram* is a useful feature for effective work on account content:
The article has been updated. First published: October 3, 2018
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Instagram is the most visual social network.
Therefore, there are many posts that catch the eye or make you think. They can be shared, shown to everyone, spread the favor, or this is a funny video to cheer up subscribers. How do you share someone else's content on Instagram?
Any social network is working to make using the application easy and comfortable. It will be easy to repost someone else's post to your story. See video instruction below. nine0003
To repost an entry on Instagram, you need:
A couple of tips and ideas for promoting your profile through reposts:
An example of a competent design of the "Actual" section.
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Reposting someone else's story to your account is more difficult than reposting a post.
There is no such function inside Instagram, if you are not marked in this story, additional services will be needed. How to repost someone else's story on Instagram on iOS? nine0003
For example, the assistant app in the App Store on iOS is Reshare Story.
This can be done for public stories and only for close friends. Done, you've reposted someone else's story on your page!
In the Play Market app store, you can download the Repost Story app for Android. The steps are almost the same as in the previous list, but there are differences. nine0003
There is another way to repost someone else's story on Instagram to yourself right in the application, you don't need to download third-party programs.
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If an Instagram user, for example, a friend tagged you in his story, the application itself will offer to add it to itself.
Notification of a new mark is sent to Direct messages. Add and edit as in the previous steps. The method is simple, but it only works if your profile is tagged in another account.
You can also repost someone else's story or post to a friend in a private message in Direct. If you don't want your posts to be reposted by other users, disable reposting Stories in your account's privacy settings. nine0003
But this solution can cut you off from additional views and subscribers, so if you promote your profile, do not change this setting.
There are several options for the problem, why the repost does not work:
