Here are eight brand new, viral, trending, hot off the press, Instagram Carousel ideas.

Number one, the stop motion carousel.

In order to achieve the stop motion carousel effect, basically what you need is the first slide to be a video.

You want this video to be pretty stationary, so set up your camera on a tripod and then

have the subject of the video, just kind of rock back and forth like a video game character

standing in one location. Then on top of that video, add a piece of text that says, hold the dots

and scroll. This encourages your audience to quickly scrub through the middle of the carousel, jumping right from the beginning to the end.

When they do this, they will quickly flip through all of the photos in the middle of the carousel and end up on the last slide.

Of course, like I just mentioned between the first slide and the last slide, we need a bunch of photos.

And ideally, these photos are going to be very, very similar from one to the next,

with only a minor amount of movement, a minor change, or a minor animation on each slide. And then the

last slide of the carousel is another video. But this one is going to be kind of like the after

or the grand reveal. I've seen some college football teams using this to announce their new

uniforms. I've seen fashion creators using this to show off a new outfit.

And in general, it's just a dynamic and interactive way to get people engaged and show them some sort of a change.

Before we get into the next carousel idea, let me just say that carousels are one of the best ways to grow on Instagram right now.

They're not one of, they are the highest, most engaged with kind of

content on Instagram. In fact, more people on average engage with carousels than reels. And with there

being 34% more reels posted in 2025 than 2024, now is the time to jump on the carousal trend.

And hopefully by the end of this, you can see that carousels are actually a lot easier to make and you can have a lot more fun and expressiveness with your carousels than what we've been used to for the last five years. But I'm going to quit my yapping because the last time I did one of these carousel idea videos, the top comment was fast forward to the four minute mark because that's when his intro is done. So intro done,

let's get into the second carousel idea, which is what I like to call the this versus that carousel.

Basically, each of the slides in this carousel are following the same pattern. They can exist in and of

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