We have previously written about the benefits of having an Instagram Business Profile and how to switch over. One of the best benefits is that you gain access to Instagram Insights, providing you with a range of analytics and performance statistics for the average Instagram user. There are also quite a few Instagram analytics tools available (for those with Business Profiles), and some of these are even free.

Free Instagram Analytics Tools for 2023:

Brandwatch includes in-depth analytics features. These include over 100 post metrics for Facebook and Instagram and 600+ additional metrics that you can download via CSV and via API. Amongst these metrics are organic, paid, and viral impressions, reach, post level and page level reactions, demographic metrics about your followers, and video views on page and post level. You can create a custom dashboard using an intuitive drag-and-drop builder to track the metrics that matter most to you. Brandwatch’s reports are unlimited. They can be exported as XLS, CSV, PDF, JPG, or PNG. Of course, Brandwatch is far more than just an analytics tool. You can use it for your complete social media management. It includes a unified content calendar showing all your scheduled content, scheduled by date, identifiable by social platforms. It supports a wide range of content types, including image, video, Instagram Stories, and Facebook carousels. Content is centrally stored in a shared media library that Brandwatch calls a “Content Pool.” Brandwatch lets users design their own unified inbox with multiple feeds, labels, and filters. You can access content from all the social networks Brandwatch supports. If you subscribe to the Full Suite, Brandwatch provides their social media advertising tool they call Publish. Publish manages all your social ads in one place. It offers cross-channel advertising, automation, the ability to use saved audiences, and more. Profile cards for existing contacts appear beside their messages. You can use labels to segment conversations and profiles, identifying people by title, campaign, and more. It includes hashtag and competitor tracking. Iconsquare offers a two-week free trial, and a selection of free tools, such as a full Instagram Audit. Digimind’s web and social media listening and analytics suite aim to improve your brand perception. You can detect weak signals on hashtags and concepts as well as set up real-time alerts on negative sentiments. This helps you develop a proactive response to a potential crisis. Moreover, Digimind’s comprehensive tools help you choose the right audience, message, and channels. You can also keep track of potential influencers that can build your brand. By using Digimind’s filter tools to sort brand mentions, you can identify potential ambassadors and reach out to them on the platform. Similarly, Digimind allows you to monitor your detractors and understand their concerns to help you develop strategies to turn their opinion around. Digimind lets you track your campaign buzz and audience reaction in real time. You can even segregate your insights by location and media. In addition, the platform’s consumer insights and behavioral analysis can help you create messages that convert and choose the most relevant channels to communicate with your audience. Brand24 collects insights on what Instagram users say about your brand. For example, it can analyze the tone of conversations, monitor multiple hashtags, and provide a list of trending hashtags to help you increase your Instagram reach. Most importantly, it offers qualitative data to go with Instagram Insights’ quantitative data. You begin by setting up a project for each branded hashtag you want to monitor. You can then use Brand24 to provide information on how your followers feel about your product or service. Its sentiment analysis for Instagram includes reputation management, customer feedback, and crisis prevention. You can use sentiment analysis to discover how your content resonates with your audience and adjust it if necessary if they indicate that your content is not exactly what they’ve been looking for. Brand24 generates a list of 100 trending hashtags based on your predefined keywords. You can use the hashtags to boost your brand awareness and increase reach. You can also measure your hashtag efficiency to determine whether your campaign was successful and how the hashtag spread across social media.  You can also use Brand24’s hashtag analytics to compare your performance across different social media channels and choose the most suitable for your brand. As well as Instagram, you can use Brand24 to analyze hashtag performance on Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok. While Brand24 is not a free Instagram analytics tool, you can carry out a 14-day free trial before having to decide on a paid plan. Paid plans start at $49/month. Analisa does offer a free service, that provides you with much of the raw data. However, you need to buy their Premium Plan if you want in-depth analysis.  You can run two kinds of reports with Analisa. An @Account Report can give you in-depth analysis on an influencer’s profile and activity, while #Hashtag reports can be used to monitor campaigns. An @Account Report includes a wide range of stats, including:

Engagement Rate, Like Rate, Comment Rate Average Engagement Rate Total Posts (which actually doesn’t do what it says, instead it shows average posts per day, per week, and per month, with an interactive graph to drill down to specific dates. Tags and Mentions Posting Map Posting Activity and Audience Engagement Average Likes and Comments Per Post and Average Engagement Rates Total Posts (Weekday Breakdown) Caption Words and Hashtags Most Used

#Hashtag Reports for your campaigns include:

Audience and Engagement Total Posts Total Follower Reach Total Engagement Geolocation Average Engagement Per Day Total Engagement Per Day and Total Follower Reach per day Posting Activity and Audience Engagement Caption Words and Hashtags Most Used Participation

#Hashtag reports also go into depth about your influencers’ performance, so you can see which influencers did the best, and which ones you’ll probably want to pass on next time around. Key Features: Campaign Reporting, Influencer Analysis, Audience Analysis, Fake Follower/Fraud Detection, Channels: Instagram, TikTok HypeAuditor doesn’t have a free plan, but being pay-as-you-go, it doesn’t cost much if you have minimal usage needs.  HypeAuditor was purpose-built for fraud detection. It analyzes influencer profiles, digs deep into each audience, and is generally on the lookout for the kinds of data that can expose fraud. It includes 28 different metrics and scores, giving users a thorough understanding of who they’re dealing with.  It all starts with the Audience Quality Score (AQS) that judges an influencer’s actual value from 1 to 100. You can feel comfortable with influencers who score >70. It gives you a good indication of how many of an influencer’s followers are quality, too.  HypeAuditor doesn’t just provide the stats; it indicates the quality of many metrics, e.g., engagement rate, authentic engagement, followers reachability, and much more. Key Features: Search/Discovery, Campaign Reporting, Influencer Analysis, Audience Analysis, White Label Reporting, Fake Follower/Fraud Detection, Channels: Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Twitter Once you convert a personal account to a business account, you will see Insights relating to content you post after you make the switch. You can access your Instagram Insights in multiple ways – from your profile, individual posts, and your stories. You will find a summary of data for the content you’ve posted in the last seven days. It also shows you how many followers you have and how many you’ve gained in the past seven days.  Likewise, it shows you the total posts you’ve made, and how many you’ve added in the last week. Further down, you will find data such as total impressions, reach, and profile views for the past seven days. You can swipe to view website clicks and call-to-action button clicks – Call, Email, Directions. Instagram Insights includes considerably more statistics, including:

a summary of your follower demographics data for individual posts insights fro your Instagram Stories paid promotions data (if you have it)

The foundation of SYLO is its data. It does require your influencers to sign on to the SYLO platform and give it access to their social accounts. Because the influencers are authorizing the access, SYLO can go much deeper into their profiles, and their audiences, than other platforms who pull data through more restrictive public APIs. Once influencers sign in and connect their social accounts, SYLO crunches all the data and scores all their past posts. The score applies to each piece of content an influencer creates, and its performance is judged relative to other material by the same influencer. You can dissect a content score in a lot of different ways by filtering down through different criteria: audience demographics, industry verticals, and more. Brands can see what demographics show the most engagement, which can provide a more accurate view of post-performance. SYLO can help shine a light on whether you’re reaching the wrong audience. Reporting on a campaign goes beyond simple SYLO scores, though. It will show you many of the standard performance metrics – it just places them into context. Key Features: Campaign Reporting, Influencer Analysis, Audience Analysis, Channels: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter You will find a wide variety of stats for your influencers. Obviously, the data for Instagrammers varies from what SocialBook provides for influencers on Youtube or Twitch.  Each Instagram influencer profile begins with basic stats, like total followers, likes, and posts. This is followed by a cost in “BoostCoins” to see more details about the influencer, and the channel’s primary language. BoostCoins are a virtual currency on SocialBook. Importantly, SocialBook also givers each influencer a Boost Score, a score from 0 to 100 based on how powerful they believe an influencer to be. They follow this with the Top Ten Tags the influencer uses in his or her posts. The next section includes a range of recent posts made by the influencer, showing the number of likes and comments for each post. SocialBook then provides an estimated price range based on an influencer’s historical performance and subscriber behavior, as well as an estimated Cost per 1000 Likes.  The rest of each influencer’s page includes much more detailed analytics. These include multiple impression and engagement stats, split up in almost every way imaginable. It also analyzes audience demographics and interests.  Key Features: Search/Discovery, Campaign Management, Campaign Reporting, Influencer Analysis, Audience Analysis, Payment Processing, Channels: Instagram, YouTube, Twitch You can use Pixlee’s data to identify social media influencers, find brand advocates posting about your brand, and connect with social influencers and brand advocates. You can also monitor conversations and identify top-performing content It includes hashtag statistics and tracking, growth in Instagram followers, and the data needed to identify your most engaging posts. Key Features: Content Amplification, Search/Discovery, Influencer Relationship Management, Influencer Marketplace, Team Collaboration Tools, Content Review, Content Library, Campaign Management, Campaign Reporting, Channels: Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter If you have more advanced Instagram needs, then you will find more advanced capabilities in Emplifi.io unified marketing platform – an AI-powered social media marketing suite. You can manage your social media accounts smarter by using AI to discover what posts to promote, when to publish them, and which audience segments to target.  Emplifi.io allows you to take their suite for a test run in a quick-to-learn personalized trial.

Profile analysis Keyword listening Campaign reporting Competitive analysis Research

You can analyze engagement with your posts, discover fans, and identify your top content. It monitors engagement with your Instagram accounts continuously, giving you the latest insights as they happen. Although plans range from  $49 to $199 per month, you can take a free Instagram account checkup. The free Instagram analytics checkup connects with Instagram to analyze the last 30 days of activity on your account, including your posts and engagement from your fans, to give you critical insights into how to improve. These include:

the best times to post new photos and videos to receive the most significant response from your audience which posts resonate with your followers and which posts fall flat, so you can do more of what works. the kind of posts you share and what else you can add to your feed for more engagement what hashtags result in the most engagement for your posts to get in front of new audiences