Meta is back at it again with a heap of new features for its fastest-growing content format, Reels.
These new tools and updates are designed to attract creators and maximize their content's reach and impact. These updates include new Reels templates, enhanced editing options, improved performance insights, and more. The aim is to provide creators with better resources and guidance to optimize their content on Facebook and increase their following.
The most notable of these updates is the launch of the new Inspiration Hub that will be available in the Professional Dashboard in Meta. This hub will be a place where creators can go to get insights on the top current trends along with data on popular hashtags, topics and music that others are seeing success with within the Reels space.
Not only will you be able to get a great insight into what is currently trending, but you will also be able to access popular Reels templates in the new templates hub within the Reels Composer. These templates will be also based on what is currently trending and will allow creators to either just cut and copy with their own twist, or simply take certain elements that they would like to use in their own content.
It will also now be much easier to edit Reels within the app. Meta will be integrating text, audio, and music options into one simple editing area, meaning you will have complete control over how your content looks and be able to piece it together with ease.
Finally, Meta has announced that they will be adding far more in-depth insights for Reels into the Professional Dashboard.
As per Meta:
“In the coming weeks, we’ll also roll out new metrics on Professional Dashboard that will show creators how their accounts are performing at a more granular level, including levels of interaction and consumption by format, as well as by followers and non-followers across all of their content. In addition to net followers, creators will see how many followers they gained and lost in a specific time frame.”
So not only will you be able to leverage what is working for others, you will be able to keep a very close eye on what is working for you and double down on content that has generated maximum engagement and reach.
So there you have it! If all these features tell us anything, it's that Meta is truly ramping up their push towards moving everyone over the Reels and is willing to give maximum reach to the creators who are leveraging it the most.
We’ve said it once but it bears repeating: if you are not on Reels, you are missing a massive opportunity.