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• Snapchat Inks Music Deals, Pilots TikTok-Like Feature Letting Users Add Songs To Their Snaps
• Instagram’s TikTok Competitor, Reels, Is Reportedly Looking To Poach Creators With Six-Figure Payments

  As a potential TikTok ban looms in the U.S. -- after the popular Chinese social-video app was banned in India amid escalating tensions between the two countries -- Instagram is looking to take advantage of the spate of bad press as it launches its own TikTok competitor, Reels, globally.

  
• Facebook To Launch TikTok Competitor ‘Reels’ Globally In August

  Less than a week after Facebook shuttered TikTok competitor Lasso, it’s confirmed that it will launch Instagram Reels, its other TikTok competitor, in August.

  
• As India Bans TikTok, Instagram Has Begun Testing TikTok Clone ‘Reels’ (Report)

  Instagram is reportedly seizing on a India's ban of TikTok to begin building a user base for its own TikTok clone, Reels. The Facebook-owned photo and video-sharing app is expanding the test of its TikTok competitor, Reels, to India as its progenitor has gotten the block, Business Insider reports.

  
• Facebook Shutters TikTok Competitor ‘Lasso’, As Instagram’s Own Clone ‘Reels’ Expands To New Markets
• As Mark Zuckerberg Blasts TikTok, Instagram Is Testing A Copycat Product, ‘Reels’, In Brazil
• YouTube Expands ‘Stories’ Feature To All Creators With At Least 10,000 Subscribers
• YouTube’s Snapchat-Like Format Is Renamed From Reels To Stories, Adds New Backgrounds
• YouTube Announces Its Version Of Snapchat’s Stories Among Community Tab Updates