Why Should I Avoid Buying Instagram Followers and Focus on Organic Growth?

Buying followers lowers your engagement rate and risks account penalties. Click to learn why organic followers deliver real ROI.

Buying Instagram followers may inflate your numbers, but it hurts your engagement rate, credibility, and violates Instagram’s Terms of Use.

Fake followers don’t interact, which lowers your engagement rate and reach. They also prevent you from accurately assessing campaign performance.

Instead, run contests with real incentives using Gleam’s Instagram Visit or Follow Actions to attract fans who truly care about your content.

Explore our full Instagram Contest Guide to build sustainable engagement.