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INSTAGRAM AVERAGE ENGAGEMENT RATE IN 2025

Instagram’s average engagement rate in 2025. Instagram post’s average engagement rate industry benchmarks.

Brought to you by Mau, a Senior Instagram Marketing Specialist at eDigital.

INSTAGRAM AVERAGE ENGAGEMENT RATE IN 2025

Before you check out the average engagement rate on Instagram in 2025, let me tell you something you have probably been turning a blind eye to…

Instagram is not helping your business

• On average and across all industries, posts on Instagram reach only 5% of followers (If you are lucky!) and from there – if lucky – 2% of that 5% will engage with your post on average. This means if you have – for example – 100 thousand followers, you are likely to get 100 followers to interact with your post. 
• You keep trying hard to build an audience on Instagram that you do not even own.
• You cannot transfer your hard-earned Instagram followers to your best CRM software.
• Your customer acquisition costs from Instagram ads are through the roof.

The solution

I can offer you the best digital marketing strategy workshops that will help you:

• Lower customer acquisition costs.
• Minimise dependency on paid media.
• Build a marketing engine with marketing assets and channels you fully own.
• Craft the best digital marketing plan and social media strategy that boosts sales and customer lifetime value.

INSTAGRAM AVERAGE ENGAGEMENT RATE IN 2025 – INDUSTRY BENCHMARKS

For 2025, it is predicted the average engagement rate on Instagram will continue the same as in the last couple of years: extremely low!

The below Instagram average engagement rates are based on an analysis of 63 million Instagram feed posts collected from 600k+ Instagram accounts in 30 industries. Excludes Instagram Reels and IGTV posts.

Animals 2.00%
Arts and Culture 1.82%
Design 1.69%
Education 1.48%
Entertainment 1.55%
Family and Children 1.23%
Fashion Apparel 1.24%
Finance and Business 1.34%
Food and Beverage 1.55%
Health and Wellness 1.39%
Home Decor and Furnishings 1.37%
Jewellery and Accessories 1.32%
Lifestyle 1.53%
Luxury 1.42%
Makeup and Beauty 1.19%

“The challenge for marketers is not only engagement. Reach has also become a major issue as the Instagram algorithm deliberately lowers your reach to get you to pay for ads so you get your followers to see your content”

Mau, Global Head of Marketing Strategy at eDigital 

Marketing 1.45%
Motivation 1.72%
Music 1.63%
News and Media 1.30%
Outdoors and Nature 1.91%
Personal 1.25%
Photography 1.99%
Real Estate and Construction 1.25%
Religious 1.77%
Restaurants 1.45%
Spirituality and Philosophy 1.92%
Sports and Fitness 1.75%
Technology 1.31%
Travel and Tourism 1.83%
Wedding and Bridal 1.38%

Source: Later data sets

THE INSTAGRAM AVERAGE ENGAGEMENT RATE IS: 1.55%

In all industries, the average was much higher for accounts with less than 10k followers as noted in the table below.

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HOW DO ENGAGEMENT RATES ON INSTAGRAM COMPARE WITH OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS?

CreatorIQ released an interesting report that shows how other social media platforms’ engagement rates compare with Instagram.

This confirms all social media platforms (not only Instagram) average engagement rates are extremely low.

Marketers are using the best time to post on Instagram.

Conclusion

All social media platforms’ business models are incredibly sophisticated “money extraction” machines.

Instagram will deliberately let you build a big organic reach, then change the algorithm to lower your reach and make you pay to get you the same level of reach you previously had for free. Even marketers working in some of the top fastest-growing industries are now having to spend a lot of money (boosting their TikTok videos) to reach their hard-earned followers.

Serious marketers and business owners who have taken my marketing strategy training sessions or are subscribed to my exclusive newsletter are already putting into practice real & proven marketing techniques to build audiences they own, increase their sales and not get distracted with vanity hashtagging.

The actual gains of increasing your Instagram posts’ engagement rate are minimal if you have not done the below key activities:

• Crafted a top marketing strategy
• Delivered optimal customer service
• Offered unique experiences that make your most profitable customers talk about your brand
• Met your key business and marketing objectives.

Two reminders:

1. You do not own your audience on Instagram. You cannot transfer your hard-earned audience to another platform. Tip: You must build audiences on platforms you own. I will teach you how.
2. TikTok wants you to pay for ads. Simple. The Instagram algorithm will deliberately make it harder to show your content to your followers for free. Stop wasting time and activate proven growth hacking techniques. I can show you this too.

eDigital can help you conceptualise, plan, develop, run and optimise successful digital marketing campaigns that generate leads and sales for your brand.

Other marketing services we offer include:

• Strategic planning for social media and other digital marketing channels.
• Online advertising: Google Ads Search, Display, Re-marketing and social media ads.
• Training: social media marketing training and digital marketing training.
• SEO strategy, SEO content development and execution.
• Celebrity and influencer marketing campaign strategy.
• Branding. Logo creation, brand development and design of marketing materials.
• Consumer contests/competitions/giveaways.
• Email marketing. Dip sequence design and deployment.
• Conversion rate optimisation. Path to purchase analysis and optimisation.

Contact us today and start boosting your leads and sales.

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INSTAGRAM AVERAGE ENGAGEMENT RATE IN 2025

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