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Distribution of published carousel posts on Instagram 2020, by number of slides

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Stacy Jo Dixon,

Apr 28, 2022

As of July 2020, a study on the photo-sharing social media site Instagram revealed that about a third of all carousel posts were only 2 slides long. Additionally, nearly 20 percent of carousel posts on Instagram amounted to just 3 slides. Only 2.65 percent of carousel posts were 9 slides long.

Distribution of published carousel posts on Instagram as of July 2020, by number of slides

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Characteristic	Share of posts
2 slides	33.1%
3 slides	19.69%
4 slides	14.55%
5 slides	9.32%
6 slides	6.38%
7 slides	4.24%
8 slides	3.29%
9 slides	2.65%
10 slides	6.77%

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Details: Worldwide; Socialinsider; January 2017 to July 2020

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Source

Socialinsider

Survey by

Socialinsider

Survey name

Instagram Carousel Study

Published by

Socialinsider

Source link

socialinsider.io

Release date

July 2020

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

January 2017 to July 2020

Supplementary notes

Based on an analysis of approximately 22.4 million Instagram posts, of which 2.95 million were carousels.

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