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Hashtags

Gaming hashtags that earn their place.

Gaming on Instagram is a secondary platform for most of its audience, who are primarily somewhere else. That changes what the tags do: they are less a discovery route and more a way of being categorised correctly for the recommendation surfaces. The title of the game is worth more than any general gaming tag, because that is the community that exists.

Tag shapes

The tags that work in gaming have a shape

The game, by name

The only tag here with a real community behind it. #gaming is a category; a title is a place people gather.

The platform or the setup

PC, handheld, a build. It reaches people interested in the how rather than in watching somebody play.

The format

Clips, speedruns, reviews. On a platform most of this audience treats as secondary, the tag is largely telling the recommendation surface what this is.

The starting set

Split by how crowded each one is, which is most of what decides whether a tag can do anything for you.

Broad

enormous, and you are competing with everyone

#gaming#gamer#videogames#gamingcommunity
Middle

where most accounts should spend most of their tags

#streamer#twitch#pcgaming
Specific

smaller, and where a smaller account is actually findable

#esports#gamingsetup#indiegame

10 tags to start from · none of them measured on your account yet

The common mistake

Tagging the category and never the specific game, which is the only tag with a real community behind it.

Measure them on your own posts

A saved block of tags never tells you which of them worked. Synclify reads how each tag did across your own posts and writes a set for each new post before it goes out.

measured on your account's own results, never on a topic average

Other topics

All twenty topics, and how crowding decides what a tag can do.

Better hashtags measured, then written.

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