Insider Tips from Adam Mosseri’s Q&A

In this Instagram FAQs blog post, we’ve put together a bunch of commonly asked questions that Instagram users send to Adam Mosseri, who kindly answers them every Friday. We think this is a great way to share information because it comes directly from the top source you can think of.

Plus, it’s perfect for those who missed Adam’s Instagram stories since they can now find all the answers in one spot.

We genuinely hope this helps small businesses like yours better understand how to manage your Instagram presence and learn new ways to grow it. Enjoy!

Instagram Growth Q&A March 2023

Here are the Instagram Stories shared on the weekly Q&A by Adam, that we embed using our tool to embed Instagram stories:

Q1: Are you still focused on supporting creators who make a living on Instagram?

Anwser:

Absolutely. There are a lot of different ways critters can make a living on Instagram.

We’re still experimenting with certain ways that Instagram can pay them directly through things like Rep share and bonuses, which we’re still iterating on.

There’s also ways that brands can pay creators or try to support that with things at the creator marketplace, and also trying to do a bunch of different things to help fans pay creators directly, like subscriptions. And we’re experimenting right now with digital gifts as well.

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Q2: How do you put controls on my kid’s IG account?

So if you’re a parent with an Instagram account and you have a teen with an Instagram account and you want to turn on Guardian controls, you just need to go to your profile settings and then supervision, and then follow the instructions right there and you’ll be able to connect your two accounts and you’ll get access to all of the Guardian controls.

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Q3: Do you recommend watermarked posts?

I don’t recommend adding watermarks to your reels that you post on the Instagram.

One, we know that people don’t like them, but two, we do rank them lower, particularly in recommendation services, regardless of what the watermark is.

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Q4: Do you get in trouble if you buy Instagram followers?

Don’t buy followers. It’s usually a scam, and there are a lot of risks involved.

Often they’ll ask you for your handle and your password, which at this point, if you’ve shared with them, you’ve not compromised your account, and they’re going to probably like other accounts on your behalf and sell those likes elsewhere.

But also, if you’re getting liked by bots for instance, and we discovered those accounts, our bots, we’re going to remove those accounts, and those likes will disappear and so you will have paid for nothing. So don’t do it. I know it’s tempting.

Don’t do it, please.

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Q5: What about music in Italy? Any News?

Anwser:

For those of you in Italy who are having trouble getting access to the music you want and need, I apologize for having trouble negotiating with the local record labels.

We need to make sure that we pay for music rights and music licenses in order to support music on Instagram. And sometimes, we end up in an impossible place. We’re trying to make sure the experience for you If you don’t have access is as good as possible You can switch the audio for different audio, and hopefully, we can get this resolved as quickly as possible

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Q6: Are stories ranked the same way as feed posts?

Stories are ranked, but it’s a bit different how they are ranked. So we definitely try to show you stories from the people you’re most interested earlier in your stories. Try.

But we look not only for are you going to like or comment on those stories well or like or reply you can’t comment on the story, but are you going to tap on it in the 1st place?

Whereas we don’t predict a tap in the same way for on feed because there’s no way to tap into a feed post. But at a high level, same goal. Try to connect you with what you’re most interested in.

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Q7: Are you planning to introduce more than one ‘close friends’ list?

That’s not the plan. We’d like to keep Instagram simple, but if enough people really want us to do this, and it’s certainly something that we would consider, the closest thing that we do is with Notes you can decide if you want to share with close friends or you want to share with mutual follow so people you follow who also follow you back.

Generally, though, it would be nice to have more advanced features, but the more you add, the more complicated Instagram gets, and we’re trying to simplify Instagram, right now as best we can.

Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram

Key Takeaways

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