Despite being a visual platform, Instagram captions are very important to your overall strategy on the platform. Captions help you better tell your story, show up in keyword searches, and increase engagement.
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According to the Instagram Engagement Report 2022, including a caption on your feed posts, Stories and Reels gives you a pretty big boost in engagement.
And in North America, having a caption makes an even bigger difference in engagement rates.
Tips for Creating Instagram Captions:
- Always include a caption
- Start with your most compelling content as longer posts get truncated
- Use a tone and style consistent with your organization’s
- Tell a story in your caption that helps drive home the content itself
- An emoji can increase engagement, but keep it to less than five
- Fewer hashtags (between 1 and 5) tend to drive more interactions overall
- Use hashtags that are community and interest based as opposed to more generic hashtags
- Go short or go long. As you can see from the charts above, globally, captions with 1-20 characters and captions over 2000 characters see the most engagement. But in North America and the UK/Ireland engagement starts to drop after 20 characters
- Don’t forget a call to action
