Need more content to share with your followers? Want easy ways to share on-brand media from Instagram and around the web? Later has 7 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 clicking Media in the side menu of Later on the web
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
- When reposting content, you must credit the original creator. Ex: '📷 credit: @foryoufoodie'
- Be sure to always follow Instagram's Community Guidelines when reposting content
7 Ways to Collect Media
1. Collect Media from Instagram Profiles
Available on: Starter, Growth, and Advanced plans
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
2. Search for Content Using Hashtags
Available on: Starter, Growth, and Advanced plans
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
3. Collect Media from Posts You’re Mentioned in
Available on: Growth and Advanced plans
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.
4. Collect Media You’re Tagged In
Available on: Starter (collect 5/mth), Growth and Advanced plans (unlimited)
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.
5. Collect Media from Contributors
Available on: Growth and Advanced plans
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.
6. Collect Images from the Unsplash Photo Library
Available on: All plans, including Free
Need more photos for your content? Unsplash offers free stock images you can use to build quality posts. Search the Unsplash library from within Later and add images directly to your Media Library.
7. Collect Images with the Later Chrome Extension
Available on: All plans, including Free
If you’re a Chrome user, you can grab images from around the web and add them to your Media Library instantly.
Download the Later Chrome extension from the Google Play Store.
Learn more about the Later Chrome Extension
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Getting Started with Later
Accessing & Organizing Your Media Library