In the year 2021, Instagram provided an in-depth overview of elements helping for how to feed posts, stories, and reels in every user’s feed. Now Instagram has also published a quick overview of such factors. You can refer to them to build your platform strategy.
1. Knowledge about posts:
They signify the post information. They specify-
How important is a post?
How many users have liked the post?
They provide all the mandatory information about the posts. For instance, when the post got posted, how long was the video, if it’s a video, and what location was attached to it.
2. Knowledge about who posted the post:
This senses how interested that person is. They signify information about the publisher. They specify- How many times have the people interacted?
3. Knowledge about the Activity:
This helps in understanding what you may like. They signify about the information of signal like-How many posts you have liked.
4. Knowledge about your interaction:
How interested you’re in seeing the posts of a particular user. Whether you are commenting on any post or not.
As Instagram works on competing with TikTok, that’s the reason why Instagram has its own algorithms. TikTok algorithms are highly tuned with users and keep all the records of the users.
Keep in mind that the focus elements are reordered for Reels so that your activity in the Reels stream is the primary element; it is the main feed.
More from Instagram:
1. Knowledge about the Activity:
We observe which reels you’ve liked, commented on, and engaged with recently. They signify-
What content might be relevant to you?
2. Knowledge about your interaction:
If you have interacted with someone that gives us a sense of how interested you might be in what they shared on their page.
3. Knowledge about Reel:
They highlight the content within the video, such as the audio track, video understanding based on pixels, and whole frames.
4. Knowledge about who posted the Reel:
We see popularity to facilitate finding compelling content from a wide range of people and give everyone an opportunity to find their audience.
Instagram hasn’t provided any new insight with these quick overviews, but it is worth noting the variances, and it could be easy to keep these records nearby as you consider how to maximize your Instagram content performance.