Instagram Live Stories will be available globally next week

Instagram’s Live Stories, the social network’s take on live ephemeral video, is officially coming to users outside of the United States. The company plans to roll out the feature to users around the world over the next week.

Stories, which lets users share videos and photos that disappear after 24 hours, launched last August as a near-carbon copy of Snapchat. Live video support was added for users in the US last December. To start a live video, users simply swipe right to open the Stories feature. One more swipe to the right gives them to option to go live. A single video can last up to one hour. In a blog post, Instagram notes that the update will be available to users with Instagram version 10.0 and above.

Earlier this month, Instagram said 150 million people use Stories every day, though it didn’t specify how many users were actively using the live feature. The company also said it would begin placing ads between stories, so watch out for that too as you update the app.