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Instagram is working on in-channel photo contests.

Developer Alessandro Paluzzi spotted a new “challenges” feature being developed for Instagram’s Telegram-like broadcast channels that lets creators start photo contests for members and award them prizes.

According to the screenshot Paluzzi shared, channel members can interact with or report entries, and can also share them “in their stories, messages and across other apps.”

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