🧠Tips from the Head of Instagram, free products vs. cash, and CapCut trends…

This week, there are new trends GALORE. Here’s what you should do:

👋 Weekly Tips & Tricks

✋ You are posting too many stories!

Instagram’s chief Adam Mosseri suggests posting no more than ~5 Stories per day – posting beyond that can reduce each Story’s reach under the current algorithm. (In other words, focus on quality over quantity in your daily Stories.)

📖 Read More: Instagram’s Chief @mosseri says that the ideal number of stories / day is less than 4 or 5.

🤖 AI-Generated Videos in Stories

TikTok introduced “AI Alive,” its first image-to-video tool that transforms static photos into dynamic short videos within TikTok Stories. Using AI, it adds movement, effects (like moving skies or animated selfies), and even sound to your images. AI-generated Story videos are labeled as such and include metadata to indicate they were AI-created.

📖 Read More: Introducing AI Alive: Bringing Your Photos to Life on TikTok Stories

🎙️Try Different Content Formats

This week, we want to see our stack influencers step out of their comfort zones and try something new with their content. Give this trend a try, it’s a simple trend using CapCut’s text-to-voice feature. Tag us in your recreations!

@beanieandkaterina

Hi I’m Katerina 💖 thank you for being here 🥰 @Maureen Kelly beanie will love it ! 🥰 @tarte cosmetics #narratorsvoice #introducingme #whoa... See more

 
🔥 Top Social Trends of the Week

⭐️ Soulmated so Hard… Trend: THIS TREND IS SO CUTE 😭. It is a trend where users show their pets, friends, and partners as their soulmates in whatever that means for them, WE LOVE THIS TREND!

@midquez_

he’s doing SOOO GOOD with her i’m so proud of him 🥹 (it’s all fun and games till she starts to crawl and jump on him hut we won’t tell him yet)

⭐️ Things I’m not Falling for Trend: This trend uses the audio “Rocket Man” by Elton John or “I Think About It All the Time” by Charli XCX, letting users share products social media encourages them to buy—but they won’t. Creators also use it to highlight concepts or items that don't resonate with them.

@caitlinmiyako

⭐️ Wind it Up Dance: Looking for a new dance trend? Here is one for all of the dancers out there. It’s a challenging one but sooo cool, tag us if you do it!

@mackenzieziegler

lol