A hidden instagram trick to see your hashtag insights
Anaita reveals a workaround to view hashtag impression insights on an Instagram post by starting to create an ad through the promote button, then backing out without publishing to save a draft. Once you view insights on that post, you can scroll down to see the impressions generated specifically from your hashtags.
The lessons
Use the promote-then-cancel trick on Instagram to unlock hashtag impression data on your posts.
Check which hashtags actually drive impressions so you can refine your hashtag strategy.
Questions people ask
How do I see hashtag insights on an Instagram post?
Go to a post where you've used relevant hashtags and click promote, but don't actually create the ad. Go through the ad creation steps of selecting a goal, audience, and budget, then click back until you can save it as a draft; after that, click view insights on the post and scroll down to see impressions from your hashtags.
Transcript
I bet you don't know this hashtag trick. You can see your hashtag insights on your posts. Let's go have a look. Okay, so you want to go to Instagram and then you want to find a post where you've used hashtags relevant to your niche.
Now we're going to click promote but we're not actually going to create an ad. I want you to go through the steps as though you are creating an ad. So you select a goal and you'll define your audience and then you'll choose a budget. Then click back, back, back until you're able to save draft.
And now all you need to do is click view insights on the same post. And when you scroll down you'll be able to see all the impressions from those hashtags that you used. Follow me for more marketing tips.
