- We've been able to schedule Facebook Lives for years,
but now we can finally schedule Instagram Lives.
In this video, I'm gonna show you step-by-step
how to schedule Instagram Lives,
so you can actually increase the size
of your audience that's watching
every time you go live, all right?
Let's get into it.
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My name is Jerry Potter.
Yes, it rhymes with the boy wizard.
And in this video,
I'm gonna show you how to schedule your Instagram Lives.
One of the most frustrating things
is going live on Instagram
and nobody's there to see it, right?
And then, of course, it does live on afterward,
but people may not watch it then either.
So this is gonna help you schedule them.
You can actually add a title
and you can create a post about it
so that people know when it's gonna happen
and they can get notified when you're going live.
And we'll walk through all of that right now.
So I'm just on the home screen here in the Instagram app,
and I'm gonna click that plus sign near the top right,
then I'm gonna choose Live.
Next, you see that row of icons on the middle left?
I'm gonna click that calendar one at the bottom
and this lets us title the Instagram Live
so that people actually
can know what you're gonna be talking about.
And hopefully, they'll want to show up.
So let's say I was gonna do one called,
"How to get more viewers on Instagram Live,"
then I'm gonna tap Start time.
Then, you're gonna choose your start time,
and that be anywhere from one hour
from the time you're doing this
all the way up to three months from now.
So let's just say it's gonna be
on this Thursday, April 28th, at 11:00 AM.
So I choose my time, then I hit Done.
And if everything looks correct,
I'm gonna hit Schedule live video.
Confirmation screen comes up,
says, "Your live video is scheduled,"
but you can now create a post to promote your live video.
So I'll go ahead and tap Share as Post.
And it does have to be an image post,
you can't do videos for this, unfortunately.
So you can grab a photo from your Camera Roll
or you can tap that little camera icon on the lower right
to actually take a photo
if you don't have one ready that you wanna use.
Once you've got the photo you want, you hit Next.
You have all the normal features
for an Instagram image post.
You can try the filters
and make different adjustments to your picture,
add a caption, hashtags, whatever you wanna add,
like you would normally do for a post, and then hit Share.
Now, in your caption,
you are gonna wanna talk about your Instagram Live,
your topic, as you can see,
I just wrote, "Join me live to learn more!"
for this tutorial, but you'll wanna actually...
Like, I would go in and say,
"How I increased viewers on my Instagram Lives.
Join me at this time, at 11:00 AM on April 28th."
And so what this post has that a normal post doesn't,
like here I am viewing this from another account.
I tap the date,
and I can actually choose to be reminded when you go live
if I wanna watch your Instagram Live that you've scheduled.
So again, in this post,
tell them obviously what you're gonna talk about,
why does this show up, give them the date and time,
and then tell them specifically
to tap the little bell on the picture
so they can get notified when you go live.
And now, from here until you go live,
even if it's three months away,
your live video is gonna appear on your profile
right underneath your bio and your link,
so you can see there that it shows up
and people can tap it anytime
and decide that they wanna be reminded to come and watch it.
Now, one more thing, too,
you can see that only part of the title shows.
So you do wanna make your video title as short as possible
or at least get the most important words
near the front of the title.
So I would probably call this, "Get more IG Live viewers,"
or something like that.
All right, now you're all set
to start scheduling your Instagram Lives
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