
According to social media marketing agency Hopper HQ, Cristiano Ronaldo has topped Instagram's rich list, costing advertisers a whopping $1.6 million (£1.2 million) each post on his account. With 308 million Instagram followers, the five-time Ballon d'Or winner is a power to be reckoned with.
1. Cristiano Ronaldo, 308m followers – just over $1.6m per post
2. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, 250m followers, $1.52m per post
3. Ariana Grande, 247 million followers, $1.51m per post
4. Kylie Jenner, 244 million followers, $1.49m per post
5. Selena Gomez, 241 million followers – $1.46m per post
6. Kim Kardashian, 232 million followers – $1.41m per post
7. Lionel Messi, 224 million followers – $1.16m per post
8. Beyonce Knowles, 189 million followers – $1.14m per post
9. Justin Bieber, 180 million followers – $1.11m per post
10. Kendall Jenner, 172 million followers -$1.05m per post
Why are players getting so much money?
How these celebrities earn so much from just one post? Actually, posting anything on Insta or social media is not only a way for celebrities to spend time or share opinions, but it also earns them big money. That is, whatever they write or wear or how they look like, there is complete planning behind this agenda. It is directly linked to their earnings.
Instagram posts affect Insta followers
Celebrities posts directly affect their followers. Now take Virat for example. He has 12.5 crore followers on Insta. Now if he promote any product, it will directly reach to his crores of followers.
1. For this, you should have large fan following.Once it is done, the brand is ready to do partnership with you.
2. In fact, having more than one lakh followers gets you partnership with the brand. This decides how much people you are affecting.
3. After that choose your preferred profession. Like- Sports, Beauty, Fashion, Creativity, Motivational, Spiritual or anything else.
4. After this it is the turn of how you can create content and promote it. It comes under business planning.
5. Apart from this, use the right hashtags, so that most people get able to see.
6. It is important to create better pictures or content to increase followers.
7. If your posted picture is good and it contains good content then it will increase your followers.
8. Also, as Insta is associated with pictures, it is important to have pictures on a particular theme.
9. This lets the user know why he is following you or someone else.
Photos and food recipes can also be sold
A photo can also be sold. The biggest example of this is Varun Aditya. He is a traveler and shares his photos. He has amazing photography skills. He advertise great pictures by uploading them to Insta.For this, Varun puts any identity or watermark in the photo, so that no other person can use it without permission. Apart from this, money can also be earned from food. Money can be earned by putting food recipes or videos of any hotel.