Instagram Reels is struggling to compete with TikTok

Meta owned app Instagram introduced feature reels of short videos to rival TikTok.

But this addition to Instagram has so far failed to capture the attention of users.

A Wall Street Journal report citing an internal Meta document said that Instagram users spend 17.6 million hours a day watching Reels videos while TikTok users spend 197.8 million hours a day watching videos.

Instagram Reels is struggling to compete with TikTok

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The document, released in August, claimed that user engagement minutes for Rails had dropped to 13.6 percent.

According to the report Instagram Reels is facing issues such as lack of right content creators and lack of original content.

Document stated that only 2.3 million of the 1.1 million creators post to the platform each month.

We still have a lot of work to do, but the results so far have-been encouraging a META spokesperson said.

Meta has set up a $1 billion fund to capture the attention of interesting content creators on Facebook & Instagram.

Out of this fund $120 million has been distributed among the creators of Instagram Reels.

Earlier in August a report said that given the popularity of TikTok Instagram and YouTube have introduced new features to discourage the trend of cross platform sharing among users.

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