If you’re into video marketing at all beyond the surface level, you’ve probably wondered to yourself what a view is. YouTube, for example, has a lot of restrictions on what will count as a view, with an algorithm constantly filtering …

Video on Instagram is a surprisingly complex subject. For one thing, there are multiple different types of videos you can post on the platform, and different ways of sending or distributing those videos. You also have different access to information …

Instagram is a phenomenal platform for all manner of social promotion, audience engagement, and visual storytelling. The site has surpassed a billion monthly active users, and it has been steadily opening its borders, so to speak, to marketers.

There was …

On Instagram, your follower count is basically your life. If you don’t have many followers, you aren’t worth following. Influencers snowball their influence through growth, whether they seed that growth with artificial followers early on, or they grow simply by …

Instagram DMs are direct messages from you to another user. It’s an on-platform messaging system you can use for a wide variety of purposes. You can message people to tell them you like their content. You can message people to …

The Instagram Shadowban is a contentious topic, because Instagram claims it doesn’t exist. Yet there are plenty of users out there who can give you data about their dropping follower count, lower like numbers, and disappearance from hashtag feeds.

Shadowban?

Instagram is one of the most engaged platforms in the world of social media, and as such, it’s in a perfect position. Brands are swooping in, but it will still be a few years before saturation starts pushing down reach …