Here’s what I found out about sneaker topics on Instagram1.
Two years ago on August 23, 2013 TheShoeGame published a list of popular sneaker hashtags with the number of posts in the whole IG universe. Today, those same hashtags generated over 2k times more posts, counts for each hashtag is listed in the table below.
Table 1. Top Hashtags
| Hashtag | Aug 23, 2013 | Sep 14, 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| #kotd | 3434563 | 10572776 |
| #igsneakercommunity | 1360250 | 5278581 |
| #wdywt | 1833106 | 4181810 |
| #kickstagram | 1232647 | 3504449 |
| #walklikeus | 1415272 | 2792902 |
| #todayskicks | 877662 | 1624278 |
| #peepmysneaks | 783647 | 1512316 |
| #kicks0l0gy | 605980 | 1520375 |
| #SMYFH | 900375 | 1288167 |
| #solenation | 415834 | 1249161 |
| #igsneakers | 413679 | 1106927 |
| #trustedkicks | 359621 | 723769 |
| Total | 12,269 | 24,782,735 |
This information was easily saved and calculated as as a note with emacs orgmode2.
Table 2. Active reseller and news accounts fan base
| User_Name | Followed_by | Follows |
|---|---|---|
| sneakernews | 3972450 | 0 |
| nicekicks | 1883327 | 2021 |
| flightclub | 1176602 | 0 |
| solecollector | 942412 | 1075 |
| shoezeum | 68736 | 33 |
| Total | 8,043,527 | 3,129 |
It seems that most of these accounts don’t bother with following back.
Table 3. Amount of posts
| User_Name | Media |
|---|---|
| nicekicks | 8697 |
| sneakernews | 7348 |
| solecollector | 4684 |
| flightclub | 2235 |
| shoezeum | 2321 |
| Total | 25,285 |
2 Link forthcoming