IGTV - Instagram's new app for watching long-form, vertical videos

A much needed competitor, that will hopefully motivate youtube to improve and mend their ways..

Pros:

A worthy youtube alternative

Cons:

Made by facebook

Pro: YouTube is old, tired, and needs serious competition. The YT app sucks. You could say this a mobile-first YouTube, insofar it's a bit of a no-brainer for FaceGram to do. Especially because they have the Facebook server farm firepower behind them. Should be interesting. Con: I don't like the 1 hour limit because longer videos are enabling most of the music I listen to, all sorts of different and wild music pieces from 1 to 10 hours long. Of course there's no money in this and so IG won't care. Maybe it'll make the YT app suck less, who knows. Overall a big positive.

I like the idea of an alternative to YouTube. They have gotten way too big and aren't always paying attention to our voices.

I get the move to vertical - at least within the context of the app - which makes sense especially since it’ll come second nature to existing serial IG Story creators who have already become accustomed to this orientation. I’m interested to see how more traditional channels who only ever create in horizontal will adjust their content strategies to optimize for vertical moving forward (assuming IG is a channel they care about).

Was it built using React Native? It doesn't feel like it. Feels smoother than stories.

After a couple days as a creator here are my thoughts - long form content on a “Insta” doesn’t make sense. Short, digestible stories seem more native to the way people are using Instagram. - I’m not a cyclops. Vertical Videos hurt my eyes. Landscape should be an option. Full screen too. - an hour is a long time to be on Instagram. - there’s no search, playlists, or categories to search through - because there are no categories I would categorize channels into fb’s page tabs.. “health, beauty etc” and really court users into creating content that fits a niche. - there needs to be way more documentation or instructions on what makes a good igtv channel and what top of things they see users doing for the platform. A walkthrough would be great. See this being a mess.

Oh wow suddenly I stopped using other apps in my phone because of Instagram. Want stories? Why Snapchat if I have Instagram? Want to pin my favorite things? Why Pinterest if I can bookmark on Instagram? Want to watch videos from the accounts I love? Why youtube if I have Instagram? Well done guys!

just start and watch, you can spend some time like as watching television, only thing which is, it show contents from people I follow only and to get more content i need to follow more people and business. Am using it for more than a week now and the things i watch is what i already watched and i started swiping away thats makes me disturbing.

Pros:

This is cool, just open and watch. you can continuously watch.

Cons:

showing the contents repeatedly is very disturbing