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Some more essential Instagram facts and statistics that may influence your marketing strategy for 2018.

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—800 million users

Instagram has 800 million users, with 500 million using the platform daily. (Instagram)
—100% of auto brands

98% of fashion brands and 100% of auto brands use Instagram. (Statista)
—50% follow business

50% of Instagram users follow a business. (Instagram)
—25-34 year olds

Instagram's largest user demographic is 25-34 year olds (25.2%). (Statista)
—1.5 times per day

Major brands post 1.5 times per day, on average. (Buffer)
—More posts = more likes

The more you post on Instagram, the more likes you get. (Tailwind)
—Monday, Thursdays

Mondays and Thursdays are the best for Instagram content, but not between 3-4pm. (CoSchedule)
—11am/1pm and 7pm/9pm

11am-1pm and 7pm-9pm are considered the best times to post your content. (Later)

The Instagram Engagement Report 2018

As of 2017, Instagram is the second-fastest growing social platform, behind its parent company Facebook. And according to Social Media Examiner, 63% of marketers plan to increase their Instagram use.

Because of this, marketers and Instagram users need more information to support their efforts. We aim to provide this, thanks to our huge database of Instagram data.

—Methodology: We're a social listening tool. As such, we collect a huge amount of social data. We took our database of more than 115,000,000 Instagram posts and looked for insights that brands and marketers can use in 2018.

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Report highlights

Average number of likes for an Instagram post

1,261
Average number of comments for a post

24.5
Instagram posts without hashtags

33%
Using hashtags does not increase engagement rates
Tagging other users in posts does increase engagement rates
Users who have fewer than 1,000 followers

63.1%
Video posts have the highest engagement rate