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Choosing between Advanced Stories and Instant Stories
Choosing between Advanced Stories and Instant Stories

This article explains the distinction between Advanced stories and Instant stories in Smart Stories - Reading Duration: 3 minutes

Updated over 2 months ago

Smart Stories allows you to create two main types of stories: Advanced and Instant.

Advanced stories allow you to manually curate content, selecting specific images, videos, and widgets to create a tailored narrative. Instant stories on the other hand are generated automatically based on predefined rules and your existing assets.


Advanced stories require more hands-on effort to create and maintain but offer full creative freedom:

  • Best if you want to have complete control over the content, layout, and sequence of elements within the story.

  • Ideal for showcasing product launches, seasonal promotions, or telling a brand story with carefully crafted visuals and messaging.

Instant Stories are automated and with that more scalable, making them suitable for ongoing campaigns or evergreen content:

  • Content within dynamic stories is dynamically pulled from your product catalogue".

  • Great for showcasing a large number of products or keeping content fresh and up to date without manual intervention.

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