Instagram’s has made its presence in everything that has even the slightest association to visual appeal -- fashion, art, photography and even food. The explore/search page has been the section that’s contributed most to the engagement on the platform. While a picture speaks louder than words, videos do much more and that’s why Instagram has a new feature -- Video Channels -- in the explore section to push its video content.Instagram is owned by Facebook, which has seen a great growth in the video consumption and sharing since they started enabling the auto play feature on our timelines and doubled down on the back-end infrastructure to support it. They even acquired Oculus to dive into the new 360-degree video segment. Now, Instagram seems to be following its footsteps to turn into an appealing source of video.

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