A Snapchat Story showing the (few) differences with Instagram Stories

Instagram Stories are a close clone of Snapchat Stories, but there are some differences between the two, like how they handle pre-recorded photos and videos.

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It’s easy to mock Instagram for photocopying Snapchat’s Stories product to the point of even copying its name. But I already did that. And even though Instagram’s clone mirrors many of the same features as Snapchat’s original, they aren’t identical twins. So here’s a Facebook video of a Snapchat Story I made documenting the differences between the two.

Update: There were a couple more (big) differences between Snapchat’s Stories and Instagram’s Stories that I missed earlier and one thing I had wrong. So here’s another video about them.


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Tim Peterson
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Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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