
Think of splicing different footage in a cool way to create a short teaser trailer that you can link to on YouTube. With the video length on Instagram being, well, very short, you might have to start adopting the mentality of a studio executive.

Length restrictions: Instagram videos have a length limit of between 3 to 60 seconds, while most YouTube videos exceed this duration (Except for YouTube Shorts).That’s also true when you want to share a video from Facebook on Instagram, even though FB owns IG. Here’s the catch, though: Out of the 4 Horsemen of social media (Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and, of course, Facebook), Instagram is the only platform you can’t directly share a video to. How about sharing a YouTube video on the world’s most popular social platform? Why is it impossible to post YouTube videos to Instagram directly? So how to share a YouTube video on Instagram?

It may have been launched as an image-first platform, but Instagram has morphed into a premier, go-to video destination. From Insta-stories to IGTV, video has become the most popular form of content on the ‘gram, with video posts getting more than twice the amount of comments than any other form of content.
