Optimising Your Content Strategy With Trial Reels

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calendar icon02 January 2025

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With shorter attention spans and a constant flow of information, creating engaging content is one of the key challenges for brands to get noticed by greater audiences and even their own followers. This is why optimising content strategy is extremely important, and focusing on trying to enhance your content can significantly improve viewership. One of the latest tools to help with this is Trial Reels on Instagram. 

What are Trial Reels?

Trial reels is a new feature on Instagram that allows you to post a reel to non-followers to test its performance before showing it to your followers. If it performs well, you can then choose to share it with your followers too, allowing you to experiment without interrupting your primary audience’s feed. 

Experimentation Made Easy

Not only can you test a reel, but you can also test different versions of the same reel. There can be variations with different audios or hooks, allowing you to see which version performed best and deserves to be on your followers’ feeds and speaks to your brand best. 

Flexible Posting

This new feature gives brands and creators so much more flexibility, allowing them to investigate what kinds of visuals, sounds and texts influence their content success. This automatically optimises your content to be exactly what suits your audience, without all the trial and error of posting a reel that has no engagement and not knowing exactly what aspect of it was less appealing to viewers. 

With Trial Reels, brands and creators can approach content creation with confidence, knowing that every post is backed by insight and tailored to captivate their audience.