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Mixed media Instagram carousels (images + videos)

Feature Request

It would be very useful to allow mixed media in Instagram carousel posts (images and videos together in the same carousel).

Instagram supports this natively and many creators use mixed carousels as part of their content strategy. Tools like Preview already allow this.

Mixed carousels are especially useful because they often perform better in reach and engagement, since Instagram sometimes distributes them similarly to reels.

Allowing mixed images and videos in carousels would make Late much more flexible for Instagram content planning.

Posted by Lucia Torri ·
Status: Completed1 comment

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  • Miquel Palet López

    Team•

    Jul 13

    Good news, this is already supported!

    Create an Instagram post with a media array that mixes images and videos (up to 10 items). Each item becomes its own carousel child (VIDEO or IMAGE) under a single CAROUSEL parent, and videos are auto-compressed to meet Instagram's limits. Items should share the same aspect ratio (the first item sets it).

    Details here: docs.zernio.com/platforms/instagram#carousel. Thanks for the request!