Instagram Teen Accounts
2025



To reinforce teen safety and wellbeing, Instagram launched a new feature for Teen Accounts guided by PG-13 movie ratings. This on-platform campaign includes a series of live action spots combined with product-forward animations.


Hot tip: To play any of the spots, just click on it!


Team

Live Action Production
Smuggler
Director rubberband.
DP Benoit Soler
Editor Matt Schaff @ Cabin
Post Producer Andrea Cantor
Colorist Alex Bickel @ Color Collective
Animation & VFX Hornet
Sound & Music Canja
UGC sourcing Catch+Release
Photographer Marie Tomanova

Creative X (agency)

Production
Nick Miller, Monica Mai
Creatives Lucas Heck, Naz Nazli, Fayethe Vongsouvanh, Abby Pak, Ainsworth Kerr, Filipe Medici, Christy Silva, Dorian Dreyfuss







Live Action Spots

A total of seven live action spots with accompanying cutdowns in all sizes, resulting in hundreds of deliverables.



Product Films

Four unique UI-animation focused spots highlighting different features/settings within Teen Accounts.


Photography

Evergreen stills for Instagram’s brand library. Shot in tandem with the live action shoot, pulling time wherever we could.


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