By John Glenday

Image-sharing platform Instagram has taken inspiration from Snapchat’s Live Stories feature to introduce its own Event Channels functionality which bears more than a passing resemblance to its Snapchat equivalent.

The video channel will collate motion content filmed by users at events such as concerts and sports matches for distribution amongst the wider Instagram community – an almost identical set up to Snapchat’s Live Stories which collects location based photos and videos.

Rather than launch a mere copycat however the Facebook-owned service has added a few bells and whistles of its own by personalising the service for each user, taking notice Read full story ›

Source: The Drum