Instagram Debuts Video Embeds, Could Alter Publishing Habits

Marketers, publishers get alternative to Vine, YouTube, Vimeo

Instagram today made its three-weeks-old videos feature embeddable, giving publishers and marketers another option to Twitter Vine, YouTube and Vimeo when it comes to making content more multimedia. In other words, anybody can now grab an Instagram video or photo and post it on their own website, app or other digital platform.

A blog post by the Facebook-owned platform provides the following instructions: "Now, when you visit an Instagram photo or video page on your desktop Web browser, you’ll see a new share button on the right side of your photo (just under the comments button).

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