You might be interested to know that in 2010, when Instagram was first launched, many users created accounts on this exciting platform just to share pictures on their page. In fact, this platform was designed in a way so that users can follow their friends and acquaintances and post their favorite photos.
But little by little, Instagram gained unprecedented popularity among users due to the attractive updates it unveiled and the cool features it provided to its users. And well, these popularity made the designers of this program think and add more features to keep fans and Instagram enthusiasts more satisfied than before and find new audiences.
It was exactly in 2021 that Adam Mosseri, the founder and owner of Instagram, announced that the platform was no longer focused on photo sharing. Not that you won't be able to post photos on Instagram anymore, but what he meant by this is that Instagram's capabilities are going to go beyond a program that is just for fun and posting photos and focus more on video sharing. This shift means that small businesses using Instagram to engage with their audience will need to produce video content to keep up.
But you know what is the matter? If we leave the production of video content and its difficulties aside, the main question that arises is, do others even watch the videos that we have worked so hard to make, or do they simply pass by and our efforts to produce content are in vain?
It doesn't matter if you own a virtual business and want to have accurate statistics of your page visitors, or just out of curiosity and for personal reasons, you want to find out who has seen the videos you have uploaded to Instagram.
Everyone already knows that Instagram, contrary to its countless attractive features, is very, very secretive! Anyone who uses Instagram just once will realize at the first glance that this program is tight-lipped about many issues! One of the things about which Instagram does not provide users with any information is video views, and therefore, one of the preoccupations of users is to know if it is possible to calculate statistics and find out who has seen our videos or not.
When it comes to Instagram videos, it should be kept in mind that video content on this platform is divided into three categories: stories, reels, and videos that we post. In fact, if you are not aware, I must tell you that IGTV has been discontinued and Instagram has abandoned it altogether.
To be honest, with all the features Instagram has provided for its users, there is a bug that may be intentional, which is that users cannot find out who has watched their videos.
But maybe there is a logical reason behind this case. First of all, a page on Instagram may have a lot of followers and millions of people watch the videos uploaded on it. With these interpretations, don't you think it is difficult and impossible to list the names and profiles of all these users?
Secondly, Instagram cares a lot about the privacy of its users; Therefore, the hope of adding such a feature to this program may seem a little unlikely. In fact, the Instagram algorithm is very smart, and for this reason, sometimes we are randomly shown posts from pages that we do not know at all and do not follow the owner of that page. As a result, we may not want our username to be shown in a list to strangers, and Instagram understands this completely.
Many times, some users, due to personal reasons, watch the videos of certain people, but they don't like to like them! And well, they probably don't like that the person in question gets a whiff of this and finds their name in the list of video visitors.
Having said that, it is possible to access information such as the number of views, likes and comments of videos and reels, which is also valuable.
As we said above, talking about Instagram is not as easy as you think. So, for now, we can only hope that one day this attractive application will give an update and unveil a feature to see the number of visitors to Instagram videos.
At the moment, all we can do is rely on the statistics that Instagram shows us, and this information tells us how many people have seen our video. Just that, no more!
For this, there are three methods that you can use whichever you think is more convenient. Anyway, we will continue to do our best to teach all three methods in a very clear and transparent way so that it may be useful and practical for you.
The first method: Viewing the number of people who have seen our Instagram videos, through the profile (profile tab)
To find out how many people have seen your Instagram video, you can use the first method, which is very simple and easy. To use this method, you must do the following steps in order:
Enter your Instagram page and click on the profile picture icon at the bottom of the page.
When you enter the profile tab, select the video you want. That is, tap on the same video you want to check its views.
At the bottom of the video, you will see the words "liked by...and others".
Click on "others" to open a new page.
In the new page that opens for you, the number on the left shows the number of people who have watched your video and the number on the right shows the number of people who have liked your video.
The second method: Viewing the number of people who have seen our Instagram videos, through the profile (profile tab)
The second method is the same as the first method, because with its help, you can easily determine the number of visitors who have seen our Instagram video through the profile tab. If you didn't like the first method or felt that it was a bit confusing, you can use the same method that we explain below, which is not difficult at all.
To use the second method, you must follow the following steps carefully:
Enter your Instagram page and click on the profile picture icon at the bottom of the page.
By clicking on the profile picture icon in the bottom bar of the page, you will be transferred to the profile tab.
If the video you posted was a simple video, at this point in the profile tab, click on the icon shown in the image below to see how many people have watched the video you shared.
But if the video you posted is reels, things are a little different. If you have shared your video in reels format, you should click on the icon shown in the picture below in the profile tab to find out how many people have seen your video.
As you can see in the two photos above, by clicking on the mentioned icons, you can see the number of views of your desired video.
Well, so far we have introduced two methods to see the number of people who have seen your Instagram video. In these two methods, it didn't matter if your page was business or not! These two methods taught to you so far are suitable and work for any account. In the following, we are going to teach you a method that is only for those who have a business page. That is, if your page is useless, the next method will not help you and cannot be used for you.
But if your page is not a business page, you can easily turn it into a business page and use the following method to see the number of people who have watched your Instagram video.
Maybe you ask yourself how we can turn our Instagram page into a business page? Well, if you still don't know how to do this, don't worry. In the following very brief and useful, we will explain to you the steps of making an Instagram account business, which will definitely be useful for your virtual business on this popular platform.