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53%
53% -- share of ads on reels for Instagram ads (Q4 2025)
In Q4 2025, 53% of all Instagram ads were placed on Reels.
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53%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
Q4 2025
Entity
Geography
Global
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B
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
datarefs.com
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Tier B
https://www.datarefs.com/statistics/social-media/instagram-users ↗
Source Article
How Many People Use Instagram in 2026 [Active Users Data]
Instagram has 3 billion monthly active users, and over 500 million people engage with the platform every day.
Instagram is the third-largest social media app after Facebook and WhatsApp, and the number of users is increasing rapidly. The majority of users are Gen Z and millennials who spend over 33 …
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datarefs.com
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Industrysocial_media_marketing,media_entertainment
RegionGlobal
RoleAll marketers
Channelsocial
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Instagram ads: 53% share of ads on reels. Source: datarefs.com (Q4 2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/instagram-ads-on-reels-53-q4-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/instagram-ads-on-reels-53-q4-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>53%</strong> -- share of ads on reels for Instagram ads<br><small>Source: datarefs.com (Q4 2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/instagram-ads-on-reels-53-q4-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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