What Instagram’s shopping update means for influencers

Instagram is finally letting users shop what they see in their feeds.

The Facebook-owned platform announced last week that it would be rolling out a feature that lets brands tag products in their posts, linking out to a more detailed product page that leads users out of the app (for the first time, outside of an ad or link in bio) and onto a retailer’s website to purchase. The move has been long-anticipated by brands and Instagram users alike, as the social app drives product inspiration: Internal research shows that 60 percent of Instagram users reported having discovered new products and services on the platform.

To read the rest of this story, please visit Glossy.

More in Marketing

Illustration of a robot talking to a person.

DMexco ’26 Briefing: From scaling AI operations to teaching the next generation of ‘bold’ CMOs

DMexco 2026 media partner Digiday hosted two panels that outlined the challenge of AI at scale and the CMO of the future.

Marketers bemoan the culture of ‘good enough’ as standards fall amid the AI bubble

‘Drowning in measurement,’ marketers mull priorities in an internet where ‘two audiences’ exist. 

Future of Marketing Briefing: Imagining the ad business hiding inside Meta’s Muse

Meta’s Muse is ad-free for now. Don’t expect that to last.