I see a lot of potential – IGTV from Instagram Review

This is one of the first updates in a while that has excited me on Instagram. I don’t think this would out rule Youtube anytime soon though. I think people are forgetting all the benefits users get on there and IGTV so far is not something people have warmed up to but I do feel if the app is continually updated for more user friendly usage it could go far. A couple suggestions. Videos should not auto play as soon as you step out of a video there’s like no home section so the video just keeps playing in the background until you press pause. It’s a bit obnoxious if not a lot. Also I agree with others who have mentioned that we should just be able to view peoples thumbnails larger instead of the video right behind it. I think also after a while once a person has a lot of videos scrolling will be annoying if it stays left to right. It would be better for the thumbnails to be vertical scrolling up and down. The interface does need a lot of work but the concept is good I would say great but we need more time to see. I do really like that the igtv icon automatically appears on your IG profile once you upload a video. The only thing with updating IG users when new videos are uploaded on to IGTV it may get annoying that the icon stays highlighted at the top of the screen even once a user leaves the Instagram app and refreshes. I think it should just notify once like IG LIVE and then disappear. Or have a section where you can see new content uploaded on to IGTV from the original Instagram app. You can tell a lot of people are just hopping on to IGTV just to clear the notification and they’re not watching the video. I think the notification should feel optional and not forced. I can deal with the fact that you can’t edit videos on IGTV but in the future it would be a nice feature if made simplistic. I think the app needs to aim into being VERY user friendly almost dummy proof because people don’t have a lot of patience for complicated formats on apps. Lastly can we please be able to edit our titles and captions on the IGTV videos! I can tell that will be annoying if we have a typo we can’t fix. Thanks and good luck IG! We’re rooting for you!
Review by Yikbfzb on IGTV from Instagram.