# Instagram chases YouTube with a push for longer, widescreen videos

- Source: The Verge
- Published: 2026-10-26T16:05:44+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018688/instagram-longform-widescreen-video-features-youtube
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/instagram-chases-youtube-with-a-push-for-longer-widescreen-videos-034965/

Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform "for a long time," he says in a six-and-a-half-minute video (here's the widescreen version) with VP of product Tessa Lyons, saying that "one of my concerns […]

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