How to Create Original Reels Audios That Can Go Viral & Grow Your Instagram Followers - Your Social Team

Now I am gaining hundreds of instagram followers daily, without spending a dime or doing any extra work!

“In the past 30 days I have gained 7,238 followers — even though everyone is complaining of low engagement, which is common in the summer.”

So thank you Instagram Reels and trends!

We are all for using several different strategies to grow our Instagram audience for better results, so we are excited to share with you all our pro tips to create original Reels audios that have potential to become a trend.

Tip #1

Make a Reel that is very easy to re-create

People are much more likely to jump on a trend if they can just record a short clip or use an existing one. So stay away from complex transitions and multiple clip editing and think about how easy it will be for others to use your very own reels trending sound to create their version of it.

Bonus points if they don’t need to be on camera!

Having to be on camera may be the number 1 challenge business owners and social media managers face when they need to create Reels, so any ideas of Reels that people don’t need to have their faces on camera to create are usually a hit!

Tip #2

Keep your trending audio and your Reel short in duration

Keep an eye on the length! A short Reel will perform better because people will be able to watch the whole thing. Sometimes they will even watch it multiple times, which doesn’t happen as often with longer Reels. People completing your Reels, meaning if they watch the whole thing, will tell the Algorithm that it’s a very valuable piece of content. That will lead to bigger chances that now only people will get to hear your whole audio, but you will also have a bigger change your Reel reached the Explore page for lots of people and gets recommended (my Reel was even recommended as one of the 3 original audios in the Reels sounds page, where you see the trending songs!)). and For all these reasons, keeping it short will help your audio will spread faster.

A short trend will also be easier to re-create, which we already listed as an important aspect of any audio that you want to go viral! And last but not least, the Reels will also perform better for the people who use it, so they will love you forever — and come back to use your other original audios and maybe even buy something from you or join your email list!

PS: my two Reels audios that trended are only 5 seconds long.

Tip #3

Make the audio universal, so more people can relate with your trending sound, share and use it

Your audio should apply to many situations, types of people and accounts, so more people can use it. Whether you decide to make your audio wildly universal or universal inside your own niche or target audience industry, this is a big reason why your audio may go viral and create a Reels or even TikTok trend.

Fun reactions are always a big win, or something that people can use to talk about themselves, like favorites, likes, dislikes, PSAs, etc. You can always invite people to share something about their business, family, pets, friends or significant others. All things people usually love talking about.

TIP #4

Do NOT add a background song to your original audio

If you add a song from the Instagram library, when people click on your audio, they will be able to use the song, not your voice track. Now if you want to add music to your voice to create a trending sound and choose to do it on an external video editing app, such as inShop, VN, Splice or CapCut, you could be using audio that is copyrighted and could be deleted from Instagram.

Safest way to do this is to only use your voice, or sound effects from these apps or music you created yourself.