Instagram announced the availability of the ‘Born on Instagram’ creator course in Bengali, which will help creators in the Siliguri hone their skills and become better at storytelling. It is Instagram’s creator education and enablement program, which includes a creator course to educate aspiring creators to create, grow and earn on the platform. The self-learn, e-learning course has 15 byte-sized modules that give insights on how creators can manage their presence on the platform, create better content, grow using Instagram’s diverse tools, stay safe and earn through branded content. This program website launched in September last year, but now the course has been localized in Bengali.
Debajyoti Sarkar, Aditya Pandit and Luis Rai from West Bengal are good examples of influencers who’ve built a community by entertaining their audience on Reels. The program provides weekly trends on Reels for creators to create better content, opportunities to interact with experts from Instagram, connect with established creators and earn through brand partnerships as well. Instagram also recently announced a bundle of new features on Reels includes extending the length upto 90 seconds, adding stickers like poll, quiz and emoji slider stickers to your reels.
Ankur Vaish, Head – Creator Partnerships, Facebook India (Meta), said, “We hope every aspiring creator in Siliguri makes use of this free course, and creates more entertaining content and builds strong communities on Instagram.”