How to do a joint live on instagram
Doubling Up on Instagram Live with Live Rooms
March 2, 2021
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Today, we’re introducing Live Rooms, giving you the ability to go Live on Instagram with up to three people. Previously, you could go live with only one other person in a stream, but we’re now letting you “double up” on your live broadcast.
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We hope that doubling up on Live will open up more creative opportunities — start a talk show, host a jam session or co-create with other artists, host more engaging Q&As or tutorials with your following, or just hang out with more of your friends.
Live Rooms also gives creators even more ways to build a business and earn money. We recently announced that Live viewers could purchase badges for their favorite creators to show their love. With Live Rooms, viewers can buy badges for the hosts and use other interactive features like Shopping and Live Fundraisers. We’re also exploring more interactive tools such as offering moderator controls and audio features that will be available in the coming months.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, we’ve seen people on Instagram embrace Live in different ways. In the past year, special moments have happened on Live, including informational talks about science and COVID-19 guidelines, interviews with celebrities and record-breaking rap battles. Creators of all kinds — from fitness instructors to musicians, beauty bloggers, chefs and activists, all relied on Live to create moments and bring people together to reach their communities in creative ways. We can’t wait to see what more creativity comes from this highly-requested update.
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Your following knows you individually, but what happens when four creators come together? That curiosity is what we want to keep alive. What was special about our Live Rooms stream is that all our different followers got the chance to see four of us talk about something we universally love.
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How it Works
To start a Live Room— swipe left and pick the Live camera option. Then, add a title and tap the Rooms icon to add your guests. You’ll see people who have requested to go live with you, and you can also search for a guest to add. When you start a Live Room, you’ll remain at the top of the screen when you add guests. As a broadcaster, you can add up to three guests at once or one by one (for example, you could start with two guests, and add a surprise guest as the third participant later! 🥳) Going live with multiple guests is a great way to increase your reach, as guests’ followers can also be notified.
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Being able to have open, face-to-face conversations on Instagram Live has helped us capture attention and connect directly with our millions of Roommates. We're excited to use Live Rooms to expand our reporting capabilities, engage with our followers, and to continue growing our platform.
"Angelica Nwandu, founder of media company @theshaderoom
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We want Instagram to be the best place for creators to have meaningful conversations with their audiences and each other, and we designed this new update with safety in mind. People that are blocked by any of the active participants in the Live Room will not be able to join the Live. Guests who have had live access revoked because of violations of our Community Guidelines also won’t be able to join a Live Room. Features that are currently available to Live hosts, such as the ability to report and block comments, and apply comment filters will also be available to hosts of Live Rooms.
This update is another step forward in giving creators more ways to reach and interact with their audiences. Live Rooms will soon be available globally for everyone on Instagram.
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How to Go Live on Instagram by Yourself or With a Guest
- You can go live on Instagram by scrolling to the "Live" tab on the "New Post" page.
- When you're live, all your followers will be notified and can view your live video in real time.
- You can also go live together with a friend, or request to join a friend's live video.
Instagram launched its live video feature in late 2016. Since then, the social media company has built up the function by adding other features like questions and the option to add friends to the live video, too.
Going live on Instagram can be a fun way to let your followers see events happening in real time, like a concert or special event.
Here's how to go live, go live with a friend, or request to join another user's live video.
How to go live on Instagram1. Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android.
2. Tap the plus sign "+" icon in the top-right corner of the homepage.
Alternatively, you can swipe left to get to the same screen.
3. After tapping the plus sign or swiping left, you'll be taken to a New Post page. In the menu bar at the bottom of the page, swipe all the way to the right to select Live.
Select Live. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider4.
A camera screen will open up. On the left side, tap the icon of four lines to add a title to your live video. You can also tap the icon of a circle with a heart in it to make your video a fundraiser.
5. When you're ready to go live, tap the circle icon at the bottom of the screen and you'll be live. Active followers will be notified that you're now live. As followers begin to watch your live video, you will see their usernames appear at the bottom.
Click the circle icon to go live.
Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider 6. To end a live video, tap the "X" in the top-right corner and select End Now in the pop-up. Once the live video has ended, Instagram will show you how many people viewed your video and give you the option to share the video for the next 24 hours so those who missed it can see it via your Instagram Stories. Or, you can choose to Delete video.
Click the X in the top-right corner. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider How to go live on Instagram with a guest1.
Open the Instagram app on your iPhone or Android.
2. Tap the plus sign "+" icon in the top-right corner of the homepage. Alternatively, you can swipe left to get to the same screen.
3. After tapping the plus sign or swiping left, you'll be taken to a New Post page. In the menu bar at the bottom of the page, swipe all the way to the right to select Live.
4. A camera screen will open up. On the left side, tap the icon of four lines to add a title to your live video. You can also tap the icon of a circle with a heart in it to make your video a fundraiser.
5. When you're ready to go live, tap the circle icon at the bottom of the screen and you'll be live.
6. Once you're live, tap the icon of a video camera at the bottom of the screen. From here, you can type in the username of someone to go live with, or search for them in the list of viewers.
Select a user to invite them to join your live video.
7. You can only go live with someone who is already watching your live video. But, you can invite someone to join your live video who isn't already watching — to do so, type in their username, tap the circle button next to their name, and select Send Request.
Send a request to your guest and go live in a room. Grace Eliza Goodwin/Insider8.
Once they've accepted your request, their video should appear alongside yours in a split screen. To remove your friend from the Live video, tap the "X" at the top-right of their screen.
9. To end your live video, tap the "X" in the upper right-hand corner and choose End Now in the pop-up. Once the live video has ended, Instagram will show you how many people viewed your video and give you the option to share the video for the next 24 hours so those who missed it can see it via your Instagram Stories. Or, you can choose to Delete video.
Note: To use Instagram's Live Rooms feature for creators, you can follow this same process to add multiple guests.
How to request to be in another user's live video on Instagram1. Open another user's live video and tap Request to join.
2. Then, tap Send request to request to be in their live video.
3. You will then receive a notification letting you know if your request has been accepted or denied.
Meira Gebel
Meira Gebel is a freelance reporter based in Portland, Oregon. She writes about business, culture, and technology for Insider. Her work has been featured in Digital Trends, Willamette Week, USA Today, and more. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and San Francisco State University. Feel free to reach out to her on Twitter, where she can be found most of the time, @MeiraGebel.
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4 Ways to Use Joint Live On Instagram
Hello, Igor Zuevich is in touch ✋Instagram is constantly evolving and offering users more and more new opportunities.
For example, it has long been possible to conduct a joint live broadcast.
⚡️However, many people still do not use this opportunity. But this is a great way to promote your account.
❓How to make a joint live broadcast on Instagram
⚡️You can agree on a joint broadcast in advance with one of your colleagues, viewers or business partners.
⚡️Also, you can invite any viewer who watches the broadcast to the live broadcast without prior agreement.
⚡️If you want to invite a second participant, just click the icon that contains 2 faces during the broadcast. Then you select the desired account from the list.
⚡️And then the decision is made by the potential participant. If he agrees, the screen will be divided into 2 parts. At the top there will be your image as the host of the broadcast, and at the bottom there will be your guest. At the same time, both of you will see the comments and be able to respond to them, as well as answer questions from viewers.
⚡️What is very important: at any time you can remove the guest from the air and continue broadcasting on your own. The guest can also leave the joint live broadcast at any time, then only you will remain on the air.
❓And yet, why conduct joint live broadcasts, what does it give participants, and how to use joint broadcasts?
▶️Today I want to talk about 4 ways to use joint live broadcasts:
1️⃣Collaboration, or partnership
✅ For example, in my blog I write about sales, marketing, copywriting, PR and promotion on Instagram and other social networks.
⚡️But I know that my audience is also interested in related topics. Such as: photography, legal and financial literacy, branding, and much more.
⚡️In order to fully reveal additional topics to my viewers, I periodically invite third-party experts on these topics. We conduct joint live broadcasts and answer people's questions. Also, I can prepare interesting questions from myself and my readers in advance and ask them to an expert during a live broadcast.
⚡️Both options will help viewers understand the questions they have long wanted to ask, but did not know to whom.
2️⃣Answers to questions
✅As I said, you can invite any viewer during the live broadcast. For example, you answer questions in the comments, but you can selectively ask one of the readers to ask a question live.
⚡️A person connects to the broadcast, asks a question and you not only answer it, but analyze the situation in detail and together with other viewers.
⚡️This is something like a consultation, but not individual, but together with others, so to speak, "in front of the whole room."
⚡️Live communication is always hundreds of times better than many posts, answers to questions and recordings of live broadcasts.
⚡️In addition, during the live broadcast, people write so many questions that it is not always possible to read them all, and even more so to answer them.
3️⃣Reviews
✅ You can also invite your buyers, clients, readers to broadcast.
Ask them to share their thoughts, results, and experiences of collaboration with you.
⚡️Let customers show their purchases that they made from you, talk about the advantages and even disadvantages of your products and services.
⚡️So you can not only find out all the pros and cons of your product, but also draw conclusions, change and improve something.
⚡️Positive reviews will also be great social proof for those who are just planning to buy but have doubts.
⚡️You don't have to convince potential customers of the quality, benefits and benefits of working with you. Others will do it for you, and the effect will be many times more powerful!
4️⃣Comfortable environment
✅ When you broadcast live, you don't see people on the other side of the screen. And although they ask questions in writing, their faces are not visible.
⚡️It seems that you are communicating with yourself, you are alone, no one sees you.
And in general, it is not clear whether this live broadcast is necessary for someone.
⚡️To get rid of this feeling and make the live broadcast more comfortable, you can invite your employee, assistant, friend, acquaintance. See how much easier it will be for you to broadcast.
▶️In addition to what we talked about above, joint live broadcasts are a great way to promote, attract new readers to your account. And here's why:
✔️ joint live broadcast always turns out to be livelier, more interesting and more diverse. Those who once came to your joint broadcast will be waiting for something like this again and again. Especially if the invited specialist is known in their niche. This means: they will follow you, wait for announcements, be active in your account;
✔️ if you were invited to a joint broadcast, and you interested the partner's viewers, then there is a chance to find new readers and potential customers;
✔️ joint broadcasting with subcontractors will allow not only to express yourself, but also to find the possibility of long-term cooperation.
For example, you are a web designer, you broadcast with a photographer. Subsequently, it is likely that you will have the opportunity to recommend each other to your customers.
❗️For a joint live broadcast to work, it is not enough to conduct it 1-2, even 5 times! You must do such broadcasts constantly: both planned and spontaneous. With friends, colleagues, partners, customers, and perhaps even with competitors.
Do not be afraid to experiment, it will definitely bring not only results, but also a great experience for the future.
As you can see, if you already know how and why to conduct joint live broadcasts and what advantages it opens up for you both in promoting your account and in selling goods on Instagram, then you will use all 4 ways to attract new readers and customers to your account. Do not forget to apply your knowledge and my recommendations. Approach your work creatively, and success will surely come.
It is better to act together and together with those people who already have experience and results. Come to our programs, at the same time and earn more!
With you,
- Igor Zuevich.
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If you can invest in self-education for the next 5 minutes, then follow the link and read our next article: : how to make and spend Share! As the number of functions and opportunities on Instagram grows, it becomes more and more difficult to hook and attract the attention of your buyer. It is necessary to keep abreast of trends and try to apply them faster in order to get ahead of competitors and gain an advantage in the fight for the client. How to make a joint live broadcast on Instagram? Program for promotion on Instagram - SocialKit: Registration >>> Instagram started testing joint broadcasts back in August, but today this feature is available to absolutely all users. So let's get started. Step 1. Go to Instagram Stories. Step 2. Press "Live" to start broadcasting. Step 3. Below, where there are 2 emoticons next to it, click "Invite a guest to your live broadcast. Done, now you can broadcast together! Important to know and be able to: We make a content plan for Instagram First, let's look at the benefits that you get from holding joint broadcasts. Application examples. Beauty salon : invite a popular blogger in your city and start a joint broadcast where he talks about visiting your salon. The same is true for fitness clubs, spas, restaurants and so on. Construction: as we said above, designers and builders can make joint broadcasts, talking about the nuances of construction and the importance of design. B2B segment: invite an expert, discuss news and innovations, release of new laws, analyze case studies, etc. What is important when broadcasting together? How to broadcast live if you are doing it together with a guest? Pin comment , which will indicate the topic of the broadcast. Thus, those who connect in the middle of the broadcast or fall into it by accident will be able to quickly understand what is happening.
Joint broadcasts on Instagram appeared relatively recently, but are already widely used. Therefore, if you suddenly missed this news, then read our article on how to conduct joint live broadcasts, announce them correctly, and also use them for Instagram promotion .
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If the co-broadcast topics above apply to you, get your team together and brainstorm to come up with this topic.
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