- The Wealthy Creator
- Posts
- Instagram Just Told Us EXACTLY How to Get More Views
Instagram Just Told Us EXACTLY How to Get More Views
Matt Karamazov
May 14, 2026
In partnership with
YOUTUBE đź“š THE READING LIFE đź“š PATREON
Your business has grown. Is your accounting on the same path?
When you started out, doing your own books made sense. But the business you're running today isn't the one you started. If your accounting hasn't kept pace, it's quietly costing you — outdated financials, no clear view of what's actually profitable, and hours every week pulled away from the work that grows your business. At BELAY, our Financial Experts integrate directly into your business. They manage your books, reconcile accounts, run payroll, and deliver the timely insight you need to make big decisions with confidence. Stop guessing. Start knowing.
“Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not.”
The Book of the Month inside Wealth Creators for May is Deep Work, by Cal Newport. We’re taking one nonfiction book per month, and relentlessly applying it to our businesses. Join us.
🏅 Welcome Back to The Wealthy Creator!
Very cool new insights are now available to creators, and by giving you access to this info, Instagram is telling you EXACTLY what to do to get more views on your content.
I mean, you know...if you want that :)
The best part is that it's actually RANKED, with the factors that have the greatest impact listed first.
Up at the top (image below) we've got the "Skip Rate" for your reels. This refers to the percentage of people who scrolled away before the 3-second mark.
In the image, you see 59.5% skip rate, which isn't great! My content doesn't always hit either. This one just wasn't good enough to get the views that other reels have gotten in the past. That's on me.
So 59.5% of people who saw this reel scrolled away BEFORE the 3-second mark, which means you want to get this number as LOW as possible to get your content seen by more people.
The next several are self-explanatory, and the percent just indicates how many people took that particular action. Again, it's in order of importance.
So after skip rate, Instagram is looking for SHARE-worthy content, and you can see below that 0.4% of people shared this reel with someone else. Again, not great.
On second thought, I should have chosen a reel that makes me look good haha. But again, plenty of my content flops, has flopped, and will flop in the future. You can get too attached to it. You just have to keep posting, keep learning, and keep getting better.
Luckily for all of us, with organic content, we can just keep trying as many times as we want (or as many times as it takes).
The only difference between me, you, and someone who didn't quite make it is that we're still here, still taking massive, consistent action to create the lives we want.
But eh, going down the list, then we've got Like rate, Save rate, Repost rate, and Comment rate:
All of that is pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not going to sit here and explain what "Comment rate" means. But what I WILL leave you with is an exhortation to make STUDYING and ADAPTING to these insights a regular practice for you.
Now you know what Instagram is prioritizing, it's less of a mystery why some content takes off and some doesn't.
If your first 3 seconds are BORING, then people aren't going to stick around. If you don't create share-worthy MOMENTS, people aren't going to DO that!!
But now, the power (and the knowledge) is back in your hands. Go get those views!
And if you want a whole team of other educational entrepreneurs behind you supporting your success (including me personally), join us here.
If you want my personal help to add between $1-5K/month in monthly recurring revenue to your creator business, and grow your audience and authority exponentially at the same time, Wealth Creators is exactly where you need to be. Join here.
After achieving my (somewhat meaningless) goal of reading 1,000 books before I turned 30, I set a new (also meaningless but cool) goal of reading 10,000 books. As of today, I’ve read exactly 1,490 books, including 36 books so far this year, and if you’re interested, here’s my full Reading List.
Renewals stop being a fire drill.
Most churn blindsides the CSM in renewal week. Champion left. Usage dropped. NPS slid months ago.
A colleague in Slack watches the signals around the clock. Your CSMs catch every risk months before renewal.
11,000+ teams use Viktor daily. SOC 2 certified. Your data never trains models.
*Buy My New Lamborghini Gallardo | ON TRACK FOR JULY
*Upload 200 Wealthy Creator Course Videos | 200 LEFT
*Publish 225 New YouTube Videos | 213 LEFT
*Hit Monetization Hours on YouTube | 2,404 LEFT
*Reach 500,000 Instagram Followers | 375,855 LEFT
*Reach 200,000 Threads Followers | 174,656 LEFT
*Reach 200,000 Twitter Followers | 190,670 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 LinkedIn Followers | 47,653 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 Facebook Followers | 46,662 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 Medium Followers | 46,644 LEFT
*Reach 250,000 Reading Life Subscribers | 236,440 LEFT
*Reach 250,000 YouTube Subscribers | 246,091 LEFT
*Reach 50,000 Wealthy Creator Subscribers | 48,549 LEFT
*Reach 500 Skool Community Members | 447 LEFT
*Reach 500 Premium Reading Life Members | 463 LEFT
*Reach 500 Patreon Community Supporters | 459 LEFT
(The Audience Growth Numbers Are Tallied Weekly)
*Finish Reading 20 Books | 17 LEFT
*Publish 12 Reading Life Newsletters | 7 LEFT
*Publish 75 Medium Articles | 69 LEFT
*Publish 21 YouTube Videos | 19 LEFT
*Publish 12 New Course Videos | 12 LEFT
*Publish Skool About VSL | INCOMPLETE
*Update Author Marketing Page | INCOMPLETE
*Update My Instagram Profile | INCOMPLETE
*Update My Resources Page | INCOMPLETE
*Update My YouTube Channel | INCOMPLETE
*Update My Welcome Sequence | INCOMPLETE
*Update 50 New Patreon Book Notes | 30 LEFT
*Organize My YouTube Studio | INCOMPLETE
*Outline 28 Medium Articles | 20 LEFT
*Publish 17 Medium Articles | 13 LEFT
*Publish 3 Reading Life Newsletters | COMPLETED
*Publish 3 Wealthy Creator Videos | 3 LEFT
*Publish 5 YouTube Videos | 4 LEFT
*Record 5 YouTube Videos | 4 LEFT
*Script 12 YouTube Videos | 8 LEFT
DATE RANGE: May 8th—14th
Woke Up: 8:30AM
Sleep Quality: 78%
Pages Read: 80
Workout: Rest Day
Work Completed:
Posted 3x on Twitter
Posted 3x on Threads
Posted 3x on LinkedIn
Posted 3x on Facebook
Worked on The Reading Life Newsletter
Worked on Creating Sponsorship Deliverables
Worked on Current Author Campaigns
Managed Wealth Creators Community on Skool
Completely Organized My Workflow for Tomorrow
Forward this to a friend you think would love this post!
If you were sent this, click here to subscribe.
To read past editions, click here.
Man, those Weekly Objectives didn’t really go well, did they! Fell short quite a bit of where I wanted to be this week…in SOME things.
I still made major progress on backend organizational stuff, scripting and outlining, etc. I took care of some financial stuff today, processing invoices, buying more Bitcoin, Ethereum, and topping up my savings accounts, etc. All good there.
But yeah I’m really going to step it up for the period running from May 15th-21st. Especially since I’m pulling the trigger on my first Lambo this July! It’s going to happen, but I don’t want to be juggling all this extra mental clutter at the same time. So yeah, gotta go even harder.
But that’s it for right now…talk to you soon!
All the best,
Matt Karamazov
P.S. Whenever you're ready, here are three more ways I can help you:
Book a 1-1 strategy call with me and we’ll get you up to $5K/month in revenue by following a custom plan we’ll build together.
Become a Premium Member of The Reading Life newsletter and enjoy unlimited access to 150+ Premium Book Breakdowns, my complete notes from 1,400+ books, exclusive discounts, and more.
Join Wealth Creators, my private business mastermind for educational entrepreneurs who want to break through to that next level of revenue and success.