Brands with more than 100,000 followers post almost 50 Instagram Stories each month, more than twice as many as they did last year, according to an analysis of Instagram business accounts by social analytics company Socialinsider.
Instagram Stories have become more popular for brands of all sizes, though the biggest increase between 2020 and 2021 is among the largest profiles.
However, marketers need to be careful to not neglect the main Instagram Feed – on average Story posts reach only half the people that Feed posts do. This gap has also widened over time, suggesting the Feed has...