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Unlike YouTube, IGTV is built around the needs of smartphone users primarily. The service even displays videos in vertical format only because that’s how we hold our smartphones. The IGTV video requirements are also optimized for smartphone users.

The maximum file size for a video which is 15 seconds to 10 minutes long is 650MB. If you’re an average Instagram user with a few hundred followers, you can only upload videos up to 10 minutes long, and 650MB is the maximum video size IGTV will accept on your account.

For larger Instagram accounts, the IGTV video

The all-new video sharing platform by Instagram — IGTV — has launched and you can start posting videos to IGTV right now using the dedicated apps for IGTV available for both iPhone and Android devices.

To be able to post on IGTV, you must create an IGTV channel of yourself using your Instagram account. Creating an IGTV channel is simple, go to Settings on the IGTV app and select Create channel. Once your IGTV channel is created, you can start posting videos to IGTV.

How to post videos on IGTV

1. Open IGTV app and Tap on your Profile picture to

IGTV doesn’t let users upload videos in landscape format because it’s built strictly around the ways we hold our smartphones naturally — in vertical mode. So if you upload a video shot in the landscape to IGTV, it’ll be cropped to fit and displayed vertically in the app. But you can easily avoid it by adjusting a landscape video in a vertical frame without any crop.

If you’re on an iPhone, you can download the Kataly app from the App Store to fit a landscape video in a vertical frame without cropping

Being a mobile-first service, Instagram’s new IGTV video sharing platform is built around the needs of smartphone users. The app only allows vertical videos, and it supports only one video format — MP4.

You cannot upload videos recorded in any other format than MP4 on IGTV. And of course, the video recording format on your iPhone and Android are supported by IGTV by default.

On IGTV, you can only upload videos vertically. If you upload a video recorded in Landscape, the service will only display the video vertically by fixing the frame to the center of the video.

Instagram’s IGTV video sharing platform is live now, and if you want to upload to IGTV, you must create an IGTV channel first.

Creating your IGTV channel is the simplest thing ever. All you gotta do is install the IGTV app on your iPhone or Android device, log in with your Instagram account and then select Create channel from the IGTV app settings.

Once you’ve got an IGTV channel of yourself, you can start uploading videos to IGTV from your iPhone or Android device using the official IGTV app.

How to upload videos to IGTV channel

Instagram’s new video sharing platform is receiving a great response from users all around the world. If you’re a creator and looking forward to creating an IGTV channel of yourself, below is a quick guide on how to do that.

Creating an IGTV channel is easier from the IGTV app. If you haven’t installed it yet, get IGTV app for your iPhone and Android devices from their respective app stores now.

How to create IGTV channel from the app

1. Open IGTV app on your device and sign-in with your Instagram account.
2. Tap on the