abovetherim
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- Nov 27, 2018
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Six months, only 4k followers. I am not sure if I am just wasting my time. Your advice would be really appreciated.
So about six months ago I started to test if I could build an IG page using the “viral content” method.
Basically I have been re-posting videos which has been already viral in other social media. I only chose latest videos which have received at least 100k likes in other platforms. And I am sure such videos did have viral potentials, because when I see the same videos being posted by other instagram pages (often later than I did), they 99% of the times go viral, having 100k to 1M views in days.
The thing is: very rarely, if ever, did such videos go viral when posted by my page. The max view count of the videos from my page was 60k. And normally the view counts are like 500 to 2000.
I know my page is still small, which partially explains about the tiny view counts. But I did find that some pages with similar size often receives 10 times more view counts posting the same video, which results in way faster growth. And some big pages seemed to have such success already from the beginning also.
I did grow my page “organically”, meaning no botting or fake followers etc. So I don’t think the “trust score” of my page is the problem. And I did choose videos carefully, avoiding the non-viral ones. I spent a lot of time every single day finding videos, that’s why I got to post the videos with “viral potentials” usually earlier than any other page in my niche. So it should not be result of posting the worn-out videos either.
I also made sure to engage with my followers the best I could: always replying to the comments and often interact with their pages also.
I have done analysis of many pages in my niche which have more than 100k followers. It seems many of them did grow in a way as mine did: by posting viral content only, without doing F/U or receiving powerlikes from other bigger pages. One example: @outofmind. And that’s why I had confidence in this method.
So my question is basically this: how does Instagram “decide” which page it “lets” go viral?When a video is posted by one page, why it could receive 200k views in short time; while the same video could only receive 2k views when posted by another page of similar size?
To give you an example: when the page @outofmind or @processvideo post a video, that video usually receives 500k to 1,5M views, which could bring in 10k followers per day. I am curious what makes such pages “favored” by Instagram? Such pages have less than 1M followers, but their videos have view counts as high as pages with 10-20M followers do (such as @lmao, @9gag, @tiktok). And such “favored” pages even seem to be doing what IG “experts” like to warn against, such as posting the same hashtags in all posts.
So if there is something I should do differently? Thank you in advance!
So about six months ago I started to test if I could build an IG page using the “viral content” method.
Basically I have been re-posting videos which has been already viral in other social media. I only chose latest videos which have received at least 100k likes in other platforms. And I am sure such videos did have viral potentials, because when I see the same videos being posted by other instagram pages (often later than I did), they 99% of the times go viral, having 100k to 1M views in days.
The thing is: very rarely, if ever, did such videos go viral when posted by my page. The max view count of the videos from my page was 60k. And normally the view counts are like 500 to 2000.
I know my page is still small, which partially explains about the tiny view counts. But I did find that some pages with similar size often receives 10 times more view counts posting the same video, which results in way faster growth. And some big pages seemed to have such success already from the beginning also.
I did grow my page “organically”, meaning no botting or fake followers etc. So I don’t think the “trust score” of my page is the problem. And I did choose videos carefully, avoiding the non-viral ones. I spent a lot of time every single day finding videos, that’s why I got to post the videos with “viral potentials” usually earlier than any other page in my niche. So it should not be result of posting the worn-out videos either.
I also made sure to engage with my followers the best I could: always replying to the comments and often interact with their pages also.
I have done analysis of many pages in my niche which have more than 100k followers. It seems many of them did grow in a way as mine did: by posting viral content only, without doing F/U or receiving powerlikes from other bigger pages. One example: @outofmind. And that’s why I had confidence in this method.
So my question is basically this: how does Instagram “decide” which page it “lets” go viral?When a video is posted by one page, why it could receive 200k views in short time; while the same video could only receive 2k views when posted by another page of similar size?
To give you an example: when the page @outofmind or @processvideo post a video, that video usually receives 500k to 1,5M views, which could bring in 10k followers per day. I am curious what makes such pages “favored” by Instagram? Such pages have less than 1M followers, but their videos have view counts as high as pages with 10-20M followers do (such as @lmao, @9gag, @tiktok). And such “favored” pages even seem to be doing what IG “experts” like to warn against, such as posting the same hashtags in all posts.
So if there is something I should do differently? Thank you in advance!
don't just reshare make the viral content. 
