Why monitoring other users on Instagram?

Monitoring other user actions can give brands and bloggers the insights of their audience's needs, preferences and habits, their competitors’ Instagram growth strategy, the understanding of influencers. For Individual users - it's a great way to know one's interests better, what their family and friends do and whom their favourite celebrities like on Instagram

It's a unique and only platform that monitors Instagram users' activity as likes and followings.

How do we collect Instagram user actions?

We use publicly available data as well as big data to track user behaviour and check the actions performed.

What kind of monitoring report will I get?

You'll get handy weekly and monthly reports and all user actions in csv for possible in-depth analytics

Is our Instagram user monitoring report accurate?

All Instagram likes and follows appearing in the report are 100 % accurate. We can collect data from public accounts only, it means you will not be able to spy on private Instagram accounts as well as to check likes delivered to private accounts. Even if we can track the most of Instagram likes and follows we do not guarantee we track them all, you will see some 15%-75% actions performed by public Instagram account in your report.

I want to spy on multiple Instagram accounts - can I add them all under a single Snoopreport profile?

Yes, we have an easy-to-use dashboard where you can add such number of Instagram accounts that suits your subscription plan. You only pay once and then the subscription payment will be automatically proceeded from your card each month. If you want to cancel the subscription you can do it in your account settings

Do you need my Instagram username and/or password?

No, we don't. Everything is done on our side, we only need Instagram usernames you want to track.

Can I monitor the user if I don't follow him on Instagram?

Of course, you can. You can monitor any Instagram account unless it's private.

Can an user know that I'm monitoring him/her?

Absolutely no, there is no connection between you and Instagram users we are tracking. More than that, you can delete username from your dashboard after monitoring and leave absolutely no trace.

Do I need to stay online to monitor account?

No, at the moment you start monitoring everything happens in the cloud - so you can turn off the computer and forget about it.

What happens if I log out?

Platform keeps monitoring Instagram user's activity - all operations happen on our servers, so you don't have to be logged in to track user actions.

You can see up-to-date celebrities monitoring reports here and make sure we are really doing it..

Can I/should I start or stop monitoring?

Monitoring automatically starts after you buy a subscription plan and add accounts in your dashboard. There is no need to start or stop monitoring. If you want to stop monitoring you can archive the account or delete it from your dashboard. Remaining time of the subscription month is NOT a subject of refund.

Is it possible to pay with a credit/debit card?

Yes, we use safe and secure payment processing service Stripe, most debit and credits cards are welcome.

Can I stop the user's activity monitoring process?

Yes, you can. Click ‘archive’ button and the user's account won't be tracked anymore and will be saved in your archive. Or click ‘delete’ button to delete the account and all reports.

Can I track private Instagram account actions?

We respect privacy, you can not monitor private Instagram accounts.

Still have questions?

Please e-mail us: support@snoopreport.com.

Instagram for business: a free business profile and user insights

Instagram is a social network that has about 700 million of users and it’s more popular than Twitter in two times now! Users spend about 30 minutes/a day on Instagram: they create posts with photos or videos, like and comment them, communicate in direct messages and watch other users stories.

What is Instagram for business today?

Instagram offers a great option for brands to create a business account – it means you get an Instagram account with a contact button, paid ad, free analytics of overall view of your Instagram posts, impressions, reach, and follower information, top of your posts, your followers data and more.

Instagram is already used by 25 million businesses (up from fifteen million in July, 2017). So you can see that Instagram is becoming more attractive place for business to stand out and display the products and services.

Top brands on Instagram are seeing a per-follower engagement rate higher in about 50 times than on Facebook and in 120 times than on Twitter.

Why is Instagram so useful to boost your marketing campaigns?

There are different reasons for that:

Instagrammers like to connect brands. About 80% of Instagram users follow business profiles today. That’s why brands can influence users decisions of buying their products and services by creating the right content that will satisfy the customers interests and needs.
Instagram offers different kinds of content to introduce your company. In addition to common posts with a photo/video Instagram offers carousels – a mix of up to 10 photos or videos in a single post, and stories – the photo and video slide show disappearing in 24 hours. But business can get some bonuses by using them as an ad. Carousel has 3-5 images and links within a single ad unit to direct people to specific locations on your website. Story lets you engage your customers by delivering special offers, news and contests and they become more popular: there are already 250 million daily users. Plus Instagram lets you add links to your stories if your account has more than 10 000 followers.
Instagram influencers can attract potential customers to your brand. As influencers have significant number of followers who might be interested in your brand, you should consider to collaborate with them especially if your audience is not large on Instagram yet. In a short period of time they can feature your products on their profiles and generate you a lot of sales.
Advertising on Instagram. We’ve already mentioned an opportunity to promote your profile with carousels and stories but there are some more possibilities as e.g. you can use a simple photo or video ads. It would be important to highlight the customization of targeting options such as location, interests, demographics, behaviors and others so you’ll reach only the exact audience you need.
Instagram is a great source to research users. You can get valuable user insights and your profile stats in Instagram Insights app or any third-party apps and study them to make in-depth analytics.

How to create a free business account on Instagram?

Here are the steps you should follow after installing the Instagram app on your mobile phone:

Log in with your email and password or create a new account
Add all the required information such as your name, bio description, website url, etc.
Switch your profile to business account – you will have to link your business Facebook page to your account ( so don’t forget to create the FB page first if you don’t have it)
Fill the business information required: opening hours, address and a phone number.

After your account is ready you will get the full access to Instagram business features: Instagram ads and Instagram Insights.

Instagram user data for business to analyze

On Instagram you can learn your profile stats, your audience insights, interests, preferences, needs. From competitors you can get their growth strategy, marketing campaigns and their ways to engage their customers. Finally, you can research the influencers marketing strategies and their followers to choose the best ones for promotion.

To learn more about the reasons of monitoring users on Instagram, read our article.

To get the following information you can use the built-in app or third-party apps.

The only official app is Instagram Insights that is available for all Instagram business accounts and you can get access to your profile stats directly via an app. Instagram Insights provides you the information of your account:

profile visits
website clicks
impressions – the number of times when the posts and stories were displayed on the screen
reach – the number of Instagram users who saw your posts

your followers information:

age
gender
location

the stats of your posts as for the usual accounts such as likes and comments but the business accounts get also access to the number of users that saved your posts. The stories have more detailed stats in Instagram Insights:

taps forward and taps back – the user actions while watching pieces of your stories
replies – messages on your stories
swipe away – the number of times users skipped your story
exits – the times when users left your story to go to their Instagram feed

Instagram Insights has a quite important feature – Discovery that displays the percent of users that viewed your posts but didn’t follow you.

All this data and even more stats are very useful to analyze your account performance and evaluate the success of your marketing strategy. To expand the information of your profile you can use other apps – Iconosquare, for example, which provides your account’s analytics and also lets you schedule your posts and reply to comments to your posts promptly.

But it’s not only your Instagram account data that matters. To build an effective marketing campaign you should research your audience preferences, competitors growth strategy, influencers ways of engagement.

We would recommend to use Snoopreport tool to study the user actions.

Snoopreport monitors user activity and provides user’s likes, follows, comments likes, liked media tags and the liked users categories. You’ll get the data in CSV reports as well that are rich in different metrics and extremely helpful for getting valuable user insights.

Justin Bieber account’s weekly report provided by Snoopreport

As you can see from this article, companies that are seeking to grow their business should have their presence on Instagram and adjust the marketing strategy to take advantage of this fast-developing social network. We would be interested to learn your opinions on this topic. Share your thoughts in comments!