5 Instagram Stickers That Will Take Your Insta Stories to the Next Level

Make way for the new influencer in town!

By Mitali Shah
24 June, 2022
5 Instagram Stickers That Will Take Your Insta Stories to the Next Level

Did you know that a study done by TechCrunch shows that as of 2019, 500 million people used Instagram stories daily? A whopping number from three years ago, it’s safe to assume that with the world going online, the active user database for stories would have also significantly grown since then. With Instagram stories becoming the little window to your world, about time you raised your insta game! Which brings us to two big questions: Is uploading photos with some text and a cutesy GIF enough? Is there a more strategic way to use this tool to promote yourself or your business? Ahem… you answer Stickers to the rescue!

From the ‘Poll’ Sticker to the ‘Questions’ sticker, they look cute and they add tonnes of personality to your Instagram stories. More than anything, they allow you to interact with your audience and drive your engagement. Instagram’s algorithm changes faster than the speed of light. It’s complex and convoluted. But the stickers are one such feature that will never fail to grab people’s attention. We’ve rounded up the ones that work best to raise your insta game here…

Quiz Sticker

Quiz Sticker

Having a large following means nothing if you don’t engage with your audience. The quiz sticker is one of Instagram’s most interactive stickers. You can use it to not only drive up engagement but also to dig deeper into the likes and dislikes of your target audience.

With this sticker, you enter your prompt at the top and put in the options you want your followers to choose from. And like most stickers, you can play around with the colours to match your aesthetic.

Who doesn’t love some trivia-like fun?

Poll sticker

Poll Sticker and the Emoji Slider Sticker

There are some arrows in your social media quiver that are just too valuable to miss out on. The poll sticker and the emoji slider sticker are easily two of them. Both of them allow your audience to weigh in on ideas. To use the poll sticker effectively, just add your question as text or on the sticker itself, and present the audience with two options. With the emoji slider sticker you allow your audience to express their approval, dislike or level of relatability through emojis. In what universe is that not fun?

A series of polls or emoji sliders will give you considerable insight into your audience, plus, no-brainer quality engagement.

QUestion sticker

Question Sticker

Here’s another sticker that you can use to learn more about your audience. However, what sets this apart from the rest of the herd of stickers is that viewers have to type in their answers instead of just choosing from options. This adds an edge to your story forcing all the mindless scrollers to snap out of it and put some thought into their answers.

You can host AMA sessions or ask your audience to share their opinions or experiences. All you have to do is put a question on the sticker and wait for people to send in their responses. You can then repost these responses with comments or answers of your own to drive your engagement up further.

Add yours sticker

 Add Yours Sticker

As Instagram has made clear, the name of the game is ‘trends’. If you want your engagement graph to be green and happy, hopping onto trends is the answer that’s always hiding in plain sight. And it’s not just with reels. ‘The Add Yours’ sticker is just another, rather interesting way to hop onto trends, or even create a trend for others to join.

The way it works is simple. If you spot someone’s ‘Add Yours’ sticker that reads ‘a picture with your pet’ for instance, tap on it and share an image with you and your pet. You can also start a trend of your own in the hopes that it catches on.

Link sticker

Link Sticker

Making it significantly easier for business and content creators to link websites outside Instagram, the Link sticker is one of the most important tools Instagram has laid out for us. It works in your favour in two ways- boosting your engagement and directing the traffic back to a website of your choosing. However, that’s not the best part. You can also customise the Link sticker. It no longer has to resemble the URL, it can say whatever you think will get more people to tap. If this isn’t a win-win situation, we don’t know what is.

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