{"id":19571,"date":"2020-10-06T17:28:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servidor.reportei.com\/?p=19571"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T15:24:38","slug":"instagram-stories-retention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/instagram-stories-retention\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram Stories retention: what does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s why Retention of Instagram Stories affects your results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The retention metric of Instagram Stories is essential if you want to understand how viewers engage with your content. However, many people question how retention works and how it\u2019s calculated for Reportei reports.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The truth is that the retention metric plays an important role in your results. Our team developed it to provide clients with the most information possible regarding their Instagram actions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019d like to know everything about the retention metric of Instagram Stories and how you can best use it to improve your content, you\u2019re in the right place. Keep reading to check it out!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17201\" src=\"https:\/\/reportei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/storiesreports-e1575060532466.png\" alt=\"Instagram Stories reports\" width=\"800\" height=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does the Retention Metric of Instagram Stories mean, after all?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simply put, the\u00a0<\/span><b>Retention Metric<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><b>of Instagram Stories\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a means of understanding what percentage of your viewers watch your Instagram stories until the last segment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Viewers can do a lot while watching (such as exiting, moving to the next or previous segment, and jumping to another account&#8217;s stories). So, we did some research to find the perfect formula for measuring viewership retention of stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here is the equation we found to calculate it. Subtract the number of exits from the number of viewers reached and then divide the difference by viewer reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means if you have reached 100 viewers and 15 of them exited your stories, the equation looks like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">100 (reach) \u2013 15 (exits) = <\/span><b>85<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (difference)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">85 (difference) \/ 100 (reach) = 0,85, which is <\/span><b>85% (retention rate)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the result is calculated individually next to each featured story, it becomes invaluable to understanding what content gets higher retention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This helps you determine what works for your audience and what doesn\u2019t, so you can plan future Instagram strategies more efficiently.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s important to note that we can only consider an exit when the viewer swipes to another profile\u2019s story or leaves Instagram stories altogether and returns to his feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the viewer taps to jump to the next segment, but continues watching your profile\u2019s story, that\u2019s retention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to understand the retention metric of Instagram Stories more fully? Check out this video by Rodrigo Ferreira Nunes, our CTO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What other Metrics does the Instagram Stories Report include?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides the Instagram Stories Retention Metric, there is more essential data that you should analyze to get a fuller picture of your results, which is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>reach<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: number of individual profiles that viewed a story during the 24 hoursit was available;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>impressions:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of times a viewer watched a story, even if the same profile viewed it more than once;\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>taps forward:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of times a viewer tapped to jump to the next segment of a story;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>taps backward<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: number of times a viewer returned to the previous photo or video of a story;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>exits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: number of viewers who \u201cabandoned\u201d the story. As we said before, this is when a viewer jumps to another account\u2019s story or goes back to his feed;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>replies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of viewer replies that a story received\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The metrics above are assessed individually for each of the six featured stories. These are chosen according to best reach performance<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to generate the Instagram Stories report?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While generating an Instagram Stories report is very simple, it requires a bit more attention than the other social media you can analyze with our tool.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is because story-related data only lasts as long as your story content remains available. Different from Facebook, for example, which can retrieve data as far back as two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That means you won&#8217;t be able to save the data of your Instagram Story report if your account is not active on Reportei.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, you will need to register and integrate your client\u2019s Instagram account well before you start generating reports and gauging results, got it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once you&#8217;ve done that, all you have to do is follow the steps for generating other social media reports. Import your data automatically in three seconds, create your customized template, and add your insight on events through open-analyses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what do you think? Did you like finding out about the retention metric of Instagram Stories? This metric makes it so much easier to understand why your content is and can become more attractive to viewers, right?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that you know all about Instagram Stories on Reportei, all you have to do is access your account and try out its features!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential to understanding audience engagement with your content, the Instagram Stories retention metric sometimes raises some questions about its role and is calculated in Reportei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-instagram-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reportei.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}