I know that it doesn’t increase reach and I know it can create trust (people see the blue check and think you’re legit) but I’m looking for someone who actually tested it in a growth phase to see if it works. I have about 1k followers and trying to grow. Not sure if it’ll help, hurt or do nothing. Thanks!
Hey everyone! I am a product engineer who is trying to promote his app in instagram.
I am a complete beginner in instagram game. Built a decent product that i want to start promoting.
My plan is simple: just to try to copy format of popular posts & engage with people in comments
How do you think, what will be: worst, average, great results if I will be doing it 1 month everyday? What should be my realistic expectations?
Thanks in advance!
Is Instagram glitching or am I missing something?
I posted a 33-second Reel today, and after 2 hours it has only 92 views. Normally my Reels get around 400–500 views within the first hour, so this is very unusual for my account.
What’s confusing me is that the engagement seems pretty good for the number of views: 15 likes, 11 comments, 4 reposts, and the average watch time is 31 seconds on a 33-second Reel. Instagram is also showing my skip rate as lower than usual and my like/share rates as higher.
The main thing I noticed is that it doesn’t seem to be reaching non-followers much. Has anyone else experienced this recently? Is Instagram sometimes delaying Reel distribution, or could there be something else affecting the reach?
Would love to know if anyone has had a similar situation and whether the Reel eventually got pushed later.
Hello everyone,
I'm a student who works as a freelancer on the side.
2 months back, I got a client from instagram, name and shame, it was this guy:
https://www.instagram.com/alpha\_khushwant?igsh=MTV4a2R2cnZlczBpeQ==
I was working as a freelancer under an agreement, with 7k payment after a month.
The starting date was 1 May.
The contract clearly mentioned that it was only applicable for a month, but this guy still made up some BS logic that it will be carried on to the next month etc,etc,etc.
On June 5, he himself stopped sending videos to edit. The contract mentioned 60 days waiting period if I quit in between, so, I decided to wait.
Now, after 2 months, he has been blocking off my calls, messages, e-mails, even from different numbers.
What I have tried:
\\\\- DMCA takedown, 1 video was taken down as I had the master file, rest were rejected
\\\\- Cybercrime complaint, they said it was a civil matter, they can't do anything
As a student, I don't have the time or money to go through all the legal processes for civil dispute, and as the amount is 7k, which is pretty big for me, I can't just let it go.
Please advise me on what to do next, this has been a major problem for me.
Also, not giving you any ideas, but if you can spare 2 minutes of your time, you already have his account, thanks.
I’m genuinely trying to understand how this is supposed to work.
Almost every time I post a regular Reel or carousel, the vast majority of my views/impressions come from my existing followers. Sometimes the non-follower reach is literally close to zero.
My account status is all green and my content is original and focused on a specific niche. My followers do engage, but Instagram simply doesn’t seem to test most of my regular posts with people outside my existing audience.
Trial Reels are basically the only time I can reliably see Instagram showing my content to non-followers.
And that’s what I don’t understand: if Instagram doesn’t show a post to people who don’t already follow you, how exactly is a small account supposed to grow?
I understand that not every post deserves huge reach. But there’s a difference between Instagram testing something with non-followers and deciding not to distribute it further, versus barely testing it outside your followers at all.
Has anyone else experienced this? Did anything actually change it, or is organic discovery on Instagram just extremely difficult now?
I’d especially love to hear from smaller accounts that managed to break out of this cycle.
Is it better to make your existing profile public or create a whole new Instagram page? What are your suggestions?
Made some trial reels and one went crazy, now 15K followers. What do I do now?
Hello! I recently started posting some food content on Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/kookreti?igsh=MTkzc2FxN2IwdDFpMA%3D%3D&utm\_source=qr
Just looking for some thoughts and feedback. The good, the bad, the ugly? Change something? Keep doing what I am doing?
My skip rate has been between 25-35%, like rate is not high and hovers around 3-4%. Watch time is usually around 20-25s. Surprisingly, better metrics haven't resulted in more reach for me. Some of my worse reels in terms of metrics have performed better than reels with much better metrics.
I am not looking for a follow-for-follow, so please don't follow me expecting me to follow back. :)
I hired my first instagram SMM manager around 2 weeks ago. He was a great guy to talk and was well prepared for our first call. I wanted to grow my digital product's instagram - which was created for instagram managers to help with their workflow. So, basically, he was his own ICP and needed to create content that he mostly consumes about his craft.
We agreed for $270/month for 10 posts and 6 carousels, also for overall engagement with potential clients and for being active on other instagram pages who had great following.
I gave him all the permissions and wanted him to be independent from me & just try his best. But the reality was that he was JUST posting AI slop content from which i want to VOMIT now. It was literally just stupid AI videos and AI images with some "helpful" 🤢 info.
After his 3rd post in this page, I decided to just fire him.
Actually I am the one who is guilty for this situation. Now I understand that when hiring someone phrase "garbage-in, garbage-out" stays 100% true. I just tried to find cheap option and gave little instructions and got what I deserved.
Any tips or follows are really appreciated:)
Compared to this insta has been degraded to an ad magazine. Those days were the best
I started 6 months ago and gained 115k followers. Im taking over some serious creators that have been doing this nich for years. JUST POST if you know u can do it better.
If anyone is wondering about monetization and others story. I started February 2026 and today officially marks my 6th month posting on Instagram. I am one of the top 0.1% creators according to my reel views and stats. Last month I brought 1 billion views for my 90 days stats. I gained 115k followers from zero. Andddddd I’m not monetized still. I as well read online at the beginning and thought I would get some sort of invitation after 10k but that does not exist. While I didn’t have high hopes about it anyway but after communicating with the Instagram support about monetization they legit said “it’s automatic, keep building ur presence and you’ll get it eventually” idk how much more presence I have to build lmao. And this is for a top 0.1% creator. Imagine everyone else with even 100m a month which is ALOT. So yeah… from my experience.. don’t expect any Instagram monetization.. that was a 2023 peak era.
Hi guys i fell inlove with fashion working for a retail store zara/bershka and ever since ive been trying to become a fashion influencer i was wondering if there was anyone on here who had any advice or could help me out , any likes and comments would be appreciated too
Hi! I created a new page last week, mostly unhinged humor for women lol.
I've been posting 4-5 reels daily, reel #3 went viral on day one, and still now one week later is getting hundreds of likes a day.
Besides that, every other reels have anywhere between 200 and 300 views, 5 likes top, no other engagement. I've been trying to tweak things as I go but I'm still jailed and not sure what to do.
Any insight?
