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Need more content to share with your followers? Want easy ways to share on-brand media from Instagram and around the web? Later has several ways to gather media and add it directly to your Media Library. This article outlines these tools.
What are Later’s Collect Features?
Collect is a suite of tools within Later that allow you to add content from Instagram and the web directly to your Media Library. This makes sharing user-generated content easy.
Find your Collect features by selecting Media in the side menu of Later for desktop.
When adding images and videos to your Media Library, we’ll automatically add the URL or Instagram handle to your media notes. This way you can easily credit the original creator.
- Always ask for permission to repost content that you don’t own
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When reposting content, you must credit the original creator
- For example, "📷 credit: @foryoufoodie"👍
- Be sure to always follow Instagram's Community Guidelines when reposting content
- Due to API limitations from Instagram, posts that include audio from Instagram’s library can’t be retrieved using Later’s Collect features
Ways to Collect Media
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Collect Media from Instagram Profiles
Do you have favorite creators that inspire you and you’re keen to share their work? Use Search by Profile to collect media from any Instagram business or creator profile.
Learn more about Search by Profile
Search for Content Using Hashtags
If you have a brand hashtag, or hashtags you use to find posts that match your style, you can search these hashtag in Later to find recent results.
Learn more about Search by Hashtag
Collect Media from Posts You’re Mentioned in
Collect media from Instagram posts that mention you in the caption using the Mentions feature. You can view all of the posts in one place, then select your favorites to add to your Media Library for future reposting.
Collect Media You’re Tagged In
Collect media you’ve been tagged in on Instagram using the Tags feature. Quickly browse all of your tagged posts in one place and add any media you like directly to your Media Library.
Collect Media from Contributors
If you work with third-party creators, such as photographers or designers, Contributors can help. Contributors allows anyone to easily submit media directly to your Later account. This can be done through a secure login, or by submitting images through a personalized email address.
When your contributors submit media, it will populate in your Contributors panel. You can then add or reject the media for your Media Library.