From left: Gamers have a good time throughout the grannies soccer match in South Africa. A Dalit kitchen in India. Plumpy’Nut bars manufactured on the Edesia Diet plant in Rhode Island. Mary Mayongana, 42, misplaced entry to her HIV medication on account of U.S. support cuts in Zambia.
From left: Ryan Brown for NPR; Diaa Hadid/NPR; Gabrielle Emanuel/NPR; Ben de la Cruz/NPR
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From left: Ryan Brown for NPR; Diaa Hadid/NPR; Gabrielle Emanuel/NPR; Ben de la Cruz/NPR
Instagram reels are reely … er … actually well-liked. (Editor’s be aware: It seems that “reely” is de facto an alternate spelling for “actually” from way back — method earlier than reels have been invented.)
Is there knowledge to again this up? Mark Zuckerberg says so. The CEO of Meta, which owns Instagram in addition to Fb, experiences that in 2025 reels have reached new heights on these platforms: 200 billion performs a day.
NPR’s world well being and growth weblog was chargeable for hundreds of thousands of these views. Listed below are our largest Instagram reels this yr.













