Left to right: Players celebrate at the grannies soccer tournament in South Africa. Dalit cuisine in India. Plumpy’Nut bars manufactured in the Edesia Nutrition factory in Rhode Island. Mary Mayongana, 42, lost access to her HIV medication due to cuts in US aid to Zambia.
From left: Ryan Brown for NPR; Diaa Hadid/NPR; Gabrielle Emmanuel/NPR; Ben de la Cruz/NPR
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From left: Ryan Brown for NPR; Diaa Hadid/NPR; Gabrielle Emmanuel/NPR; Ben de la Cruz/NPR
Instagram Reels are really… uh… Really popular. (Editor’s note: It turns out that “reely” is actually an alternate spelling for “really” from a long time ago – way before reels were invented.)
Is there any data to back this up? Mark Zuckerberg says it. The CEO of Meta, which owns both Instagram and Facebook, reports that by 2025 reels will reach new heights on these platforms: 200 billion views per day.
NPR’s Global Health and Development Blog is responsible for millions of these views. Here are our biggest Instagram Reels this year.
