Instagram Live Rooms Launched in India to Help Content Creators Get Better Engagement

 

Instagram’s new Live Rooms feature launched in India allows creators to go live with up to three other people

Instagram is rolling out Live Rooms, the company’s latest feature that lets users go live with up to three other people. It expands the scope of the existing Instagram Live feature whose duration recently got increased to 4 hours.

With the Live Rooms feature, an Instagram Live session can include a total of four participants – one host and three guests. Before this change, the total number of users in Live sessions were two — one host and a single guest. As a result, the host had to terminate the session with the current guest in order to bring new guests to the discussion.

How to use Instagram Live Rooms

In order to use Instagram Live Room feature, a user has to go live on the photo and video sharing platform. There are two ways to go live: Either tap the plus sign at the start of the stories tray, or swipe left from the main Instagram home screen. At the bottom of the screen, scroll through the options at the bottom and tap the Live camera option, then add a title if you want, and tap the circular shutter button to go live.

Once you are live on Instagram, tap the Camera/Rooms icon to see the people who have requested to join your live. Search for the guest's name and tap on their name to send them a request to join the live session. Since Instagram Live Room allows you to add up to three guests at one time, you can choose to add others in the similar way.

According to the company, Instagram Live views in India grew 60 percent on a week-on-week basis in March. With the ability to go Live with up to three guests, Instagram Live Room feature gives creators more opportunities such as starting a talk show or a podcast, or collaborating with other creators, to engage with their communities, and to expand their reach.