The 2022 Instagram Engagement Report, produced by Hubspot and social listening and media monitoring platform, Mention, has found that, among the 1.3 billion active users on Instagram, the UK came in third place as the country with the most posts published in 2021.

Engagement in the UK and Ireland surpassed last year’s global average, coming in at 5.43%, nearly double the global average of 2020 at 2.26%. The report findings this year saw that cities with smaller populations ranked higher for engagement, versus a bigger metropolis which was seen in our 2021 report.

It appears that Instagram users in the UK and globally prefer more local content and profiles as we move into 2022, which could be related to lockdown orders in many areas around the world. There has been a shift in consumption of Instagram content, where municipalities like Shadwell are climbing the ranks for the most engaged geo-tagged location in the UK. When it comes to content type, UK and Irish users are engaging the most with content that uses hashtags related to lockdown and small businesses throughout the year.

According to the report, here are global highlights:

The global average engagement rate in 2021 was 5.86%, which is more than double from 2022 at 2.26%The most-followed accounts, globally, are becoming more diverse, with India, Brazil, and Korea especially well-represented

Video is the most engaging type of content, bringing in an average of 24.25 comments and 1097.9 likes per post

The global top 50 is made up of 41 celebrities and only 9 brands, including Instagram itself

The top eight brands focused on sports, travel, space and nature

Top accounts are bigger than ever — over half have 100M+ followers

More than 109,534,641Instagram posts and 10,359,460of users were analysed to observe trends about engagement rates, hashtags and other insights that matter to both brands and marketers.

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