Social Media reach is analyzed by a few factors and these factors are important for telling how a social media app is doing among the public. Some people may wonder why social media reach rate matters. Well, it is very important for spreading brand awareness to people. Over the years, people using social media can observe that Instagram’s usage has increased far more than Facebook’s. In 2022 alone, Instagram got a reach rate of 13.51% while Facebook got 8.60%. If we compare other apps to this data, we can see that even if Instagram got the most reach, it was still low. A 29% downgrade on Instagram to be exact and 9% on Facebook. An analysis conducted on 933.200 social media posts, it was revealed how the reach rate is fastly declining and a few more studies showed research on the reach rate on Instagram and Facebook. There is a whole formula to calculate social media reach. The average engagement on a post is total engagement, defined as reach, then divided by the total posts published, and then the final number is divided by total reach. The final result is multiplied by 100 and you get the total percentage of your reach.

Many people think that a social media account’s followers are its total engagements but that’s not true. The total engagements of an account can be seen by the reach on a post from that account. Engagement by followers is not accurate so the right way to check the reach is by engagement by rate. Posts published on Instagram and Facebook in July 2021-July 2022 were analyzed. Facebook received 613.031 posts in a year while Instagram had 320.187 posts. Facebook and Instagram reach had a major difference, although both are declining. Instagram gets a reach of 3.35% on average while Facebook gets 1.40% maximum.

Other social media apps were not included in this research. You can see the reach rates of Instagram and Facebook, which might be the most popular apps. So you can imagine the rates of others.

H/T: Socialinsider
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