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Carousel

Meaning in social media & content creation, with examples

/ˌkærəˈsel/nounCore term

In social media & content creation, carousel means: A single post that contains several photos or videos which people swipe through one by one.

In Turkish: kaydırmalı gönderi, çoklu gönderi, carousel

How it is used

Popular on Instagram and LinkedIn for tips, step-by-step guides, before-and-after photos and event recaps. You post, design or swipe through a carousel; each image in it is called a slide.

Example sentences

  1. Turn these tips into a seven-slide carousel with one tip per slide.

  2. On our account, carousels get more saves than single photos.

Common collocations

  • carousel post
  • swipe through a carousel
  • first slide
  • educational carousel
  • postA piece of content, such as a photo, video or text, that you publish on a social media account for other people to see.
  • saveAn action in which a user stores a post in a private collection to look at it again later; the total number is shown as saves.
  • feedThe main scrolling stream of posts you see when you open a social media app, made up of content from accounts you follow and recommendations.
  • hookThe first few seconds of a video or the first line of a post, designed to grab attention and make people keep watching or reading.

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