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New Feature: Target Instagram Followers

November 16, 2022 by Jon Loomer - No Comments

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It’s finally here. You can run ads on Facebook and Instagram that target your Instagram followers.

If you’re like me and this sounds like old news, it’s not. There was something that was similar, but it didn’t include followers.

We’ll get to that. Let’s walk through how it works and how you can start targeting your Instagram followers today.

Make Sure It’s a Business Account

First, I don’t want to assume that you have everything set up properly to use this. Make sure that your Instagram profile is a business account. If it’s not, you may need to convert it.

Second, you’ll need to add that Instagram account to your Business Manager.

On the left, click “Instagram Accounts” under the Accounts section.

Instagram Account Business Manager

Click to add an account and then connect your Instagram account.

Connect Instagram Account to Business Manager

You may also need to give your ad account access to that asset.

Create an AudienceThis is the group of people who can potentially see your ads. You help influence this by adjusting age, gender, location, detailed targeting (interests and behaviors), custom audiences, and more. More

Next, go to your Audiences page and click to create a Custom Audience.

Facebook Custom Audience

Select “Instagram Account.”

Facebook Custom Audience

Click the “Events” drop-down and you’ll notice that the top option (not the pre-selected option) is “People who started following this professional account.”

Facebook Custom Audience

You can then create an audience of your followers.

Instagram Followers Custom Audience

This is an audience that doesn’t have a number of days associated with it, so it doesn’t matter when people started following you. If they are following you now, they’ll be in the audience.

Yes, It’s New!

If you’re like me, you’re skeptical that this is new. This has been around for a few years now, right? I often second-guess myself when I see features that look new to me, but think maybe I just didn’t notice it.

This is indeed new. Luckily, I wrote a blog post on the Instagram Custom Audience a couple of years ago, so we can see what this looked like before.

Here’s how it looked previously…

Instagram Account Custom Audience

It was always a bit odd that you could create a custom audience of your Facebook followers in this way but not your Instagram followers. That’s been fixed!

What to Do With It

Of course, you can now use this audience for targeting in your ad set…

Instagram Followers Custom Audience

You’ll need a reasonably sized audience, of course, to target this group. Or simply set budgetA budget is an amount you're willing to spend on your Facebook campaigns or ad sets on a daily or lifetime basis. More and expectations accordingly.

You can also use it as your source for a Lookalike AudienceLookalike audiences allow advertisers to reach people who are similar to an audience of people already close to you. Lookalike audiences are based on custom Audiences, which tend to include your current customers or people who have engaged with your business. More.

Instagram Followers Custom Audience

This just gives you one more tool to work with.

Your Turn

Have you started using a custom audience for your Instagram followers yet?

Let me know in the comments below!

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Tags: Advantage Lookalikes, Custom Audiences, instagram, Instagram Account Custom Audience

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