Table 2.
Characteristics of top food and beverage Instagram accounts.
| Rank | Account name and Instagram handle | Followers, n (Nov 2015) | Posts during study period, n | Average likes per post | Followers who liked post, % | Average comments per post | Followers who commented, % | Videos with views data, n | Average views per video | Followers who viewed video, % |
| 1 | Starbucks Coffee | 6.6M | 312 | 204,833 | 3.10 | 1318 | 0.02 | 10 | 518,903 | 7.86 |
| 2 | Red Bull | 3.8M | 419 | 74,261 | 1.95 | 803 | 0.02 | 38 | 380,592 | 10.02 |
| 3 | Monster Energy | 2.6M | 685 | 36,888 | 1.42 | 178 | 0.01 | 61 | 101,293 | 3.90 |
| 4 | OREO | 1.1M | 94 | 31,510 | 2.86 | 628 | 0.06 | 20 | 110,828 | 10.08 |
| 5 | McDonald’s | 1M | 128 | 21,978 | 2.20 | 806 | 0.08 | 11 | 104,730 | 10.47 |
| 6 | Coca-Cola | 920K | 117 | 19,333 | 2.10 | 317 | 0.03 | 24 | 53,150 | 5.78 |
| 7 | Gatorade | 678K | 226 | 12,489 | 1.82 | 82 | 0.01 | 8 | 34,306 | 5.06 |
| 8 | Taco Bell | 671K | 183 | 18,036 | 2.69 | 810 | 0.12 | 7 | 71,454 | 10.65 |
| 9 | KFC | 632K | 160 | 7,697 | 1.22 | 235 | 0.04 | 8 | 30,884 | 4.89 |
| 10 | Ben and Jerry’s | 588K | 295 | 17,470 | 2.97 | 609 | 0.10 | 6 | 50,180 | 8.53 |
| 11 | Burger King | 530K | 186 | 9,666 | 1.82 | 411 | 0.08 | 2 | 30,628 | 5.78 |
| 12 | Domino’s Pizza | 431K | 407 | 5,722 | 1.33 | 159 | 0.04 | 2 | 32,078 | 7.44 |
| 13 | Pepsi | 320K | 136 | 4,545 | 1.42 | 610 | 0.19 | 9 | 15,523 | 4.85 |
| 14 | Nutella | 301K | 226 | 14,260 | 4.74 | 373 | 0.12 | 16 | 66,150 | 21.98 |
| 15 | Subway | 109K | 98 | 2,025 | 1.86 | 113 | 0.10 | 3 | 12,313 | 11.30 |
| Average of all brands | 1,352,000 | 245 | 32,048 | 2.37 | 497 | 0.04 | 15 | 107,534 | 7.95 | |