New Carousels

What are New Carousels?
An Instagram Carousel is a compilation of videos and/or photos within a single post that your audience can swipe through. New Carousels will be these types of posts published within a recent time range (past week or past month).

Where should I find New Carousels?
To track down your Carousel analytics, access the Insights tool within Instagram. From your profile page, select the menu (three lines icon) in the top right of your screen and click Insights. Scroll down to “Content You Shared” and choose “Carousels”. To narrow your focus, you can adjust the date range within the past week or month.

Why are New Carousels Important?
Carousels are a great way to break down complex ideas or stories into more manageable, bite sized pieces. Keeping up with trends within New Carousels will tell you how receptive your audience is to current strategies. This helps guide future decisions and highlight areas of improvement.

How to improve your New Carousels metric?
The more consistent you’re posting Carousels, the better informed you’ll become about when and what to post about. When are followers interacting with your Carousels the most? Which types of carousels are they most active in?

Which types of content are reverberating more within your audience? Answer these questions based on your Insights analytics to better understand when to post, what types of content to post, and how to get the most out of future Carousels.

How frequently should I track this?
A weekly or monthly check-in will be helpful to stay up to date with what’s working and what you might want to add, stop, or adjust moving forward.