Best Fashion Brands: Leaderboard On Instagram - Who's Winning?

Instagram and it’s stylized photos is obviously a natural fit for Instagram. So let’s take a look at a leaderboard of top Instagram KPIs for some of the leading apparel brands in the US market. The leaderboard chart below is for the month of June.

Immediately noticeable is that these brands have really been beefing up their Instagram follower counts. H&Ms 8 million plus followers looks more like a major brand’s Facebook fan count.

These brands are still aggressively growing their follower counts, as well, as identified in the “% Change Followers” column. Those are single month increases!

Another KPI worth noting is the average posting volume of 60 times per month. Those are Twitter-like figures. Sure, Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle are jacking that up quite a bit, but across the board most brands are posting at a strong rate.

Below is an overview of the topics and themes posted in June 2015. I’ve adjusted the sliders to only show terms posted by 2 or more brands, to capture the more universal themes, instead of high-volume brand campaigns. You can see that these brands are in full summer content mode based on the largest (most frequently posted on) terms below.