How To Get Verified On Instagram Guaranteed

How To Get Verified On Instagram? The secret sauce to the guaranteed Instagram verification has the following ingredients that other articles miss. If you manage to get these ingredients right, then you are guaranteed to get verified on Instagram. Period.

1. Quality of your Instagram account;
2. Category of your Instagram account;
3. Amount of press you have;
4. The quality of the press;
5. Origination of the press;
6. The way you apply for verification.

Let’s go ahead and break them down step by step.

Step 1: Do This First!

Before we go further, please learn the process of how verification works at a basic level. Check the essential eligibility requirements and make sure you have no penalties.

Please, master this part first. Or you’re at risk of spending time and efforts on a penalized account that may be deprived of verification. Or get rejected for some preposterous reasons.

Learn The Process And Eligibility Basics

Let us begin by learning how verification works.

The process of reviewing your verification request depends on how you submit the request.

There are three ways you can do that. And we will discuss them in detail in this guide. For now, let us have a quick overview.

In-app submission

When you submit your verification request through the app, it gets reviewed by an algorithm.

It is the most common type of submission. As everybody trying to get verified on Instagram uses it. Whether eligible for verification or not. The algorithm reviews in-app applications and returns a verdict.

Submission Through Facebook Ads Manager

This way of a verification request is less common. As not everyone striving to get verified on Instagram has a Facebook Ads Manager. These requests get handled by both an algorithm and a person.

Submission Through Media Partner Portal

It is the least common method of submission and the one with the highest chance to get verified on Instagram. More on that In step 5.

Eligibility Basics

Regardless of the way you submit, you still have to meet eligibility criteria. Let us check it and see if we qualify.

Your account shall be Authentic: Represent a real person, registered business, or entity.

This one is easy. Ask yourself: Does your account represent a person or a business, supported by eligible documentation? If yes, you pass further. If not, you get rejected.

Your account shall be Unique: Represent the unique presence of the person or business. Only one account per person or business may be verified, with exceptions for language-specific accounts.

This requirement is also easy to meet. Ask yourself: Is it your only account that you are trying to verify for yourself or your business? If yes, you pass further. If you try verifying more than one username for the same person or business, you won’t get verified.

Your account shall be Complete: Your account must be public and have a bio, profile photo and be active when you apply.

Again, this one is easy. Ask yourself: Is your account public? Do you have an authentic profile photo, a bio, and recent posts? If yes, you pass further. If not, you get rejected.

Notable: Your account must represent a well-known, highly searched-for person, brand, or entity. We review accounts that are featured in multiple news sources, and we don’t consider paid or sponsored media content as sources for review.

Now things are getting harder. Ask yourself: If all of the below is true in your case? If yes, you pass further. If any of the below is not, you get rejected.

1. Your name is featured in the eligible news sources.
2. These articles are entirely dedicated to you. And what you do.
3. The articles are sufficient in quantity.
4. They have been published not earlier than 6 months ago.
5. The articles are not tagged as paid or sponsored content.

Do you know what these requirements are about? If you don’t, no worries. This book will fix that.

If you know and you answered Yes to each of the above criteria, great. But do not rush to submit a verification request just yet.

The number of factors needed to get verified on Instagram goes beyond publicly available information, covered so far. More on that later on. For now, let us move one to check if you have penalties.

Check And Resolve Penalties

Few ones read Instagram official documentation which states this:

Even if your account is eligible for verification, submitting a request doesn’t guarantee that your account will be verified.

And this:

While many public figures verify their account on Instagram, not all public figures have verified badges.

Let me sum this up. Even if your account is authentic, unique, complete, and notable, you may still fail to get verified by Instagram. Here are the reasons why it may happen:

• Providing false or misleading information during the verification process;
• Violating Instagram Community Guidelines or Terms of Use;
• Promoting services that violate Instagram Community Guidelines or Terms of Use;
• Attempting to get verified through a third party*;
• Placing an add-me link on the profile that leads to other social media (except Facebook);
• Applying for verification multiple times before receiving a decision;

*Unless it’s an official Facebook third-party partner with a media portal.

In addition, please check if you have any penalties (Account Status):

1. Go to Settings, Account, Account Status.
2. Any given penalties will show up there.
3. In case you have penalties, you may appeal. Or wait until they expire, depending on penalty severity.
4. If it doesn’t work for your case, consider using another – penalty-free account.

Here is Instagram documentation about checking account status.

You may also need to learn about Instagram Shadowban.

Action Steps

1. Please, make sure that:

• Your account represents a person or a business, supported by eligible documentation.
• It is the only account you are verifying for the person or business.
• It is public and has a bio, profile photo, and is active.
• The account qualifies Notability criteria. You don’t have to qualify this point before completing step 5.

2. Please, make sure that you do not:

• Provide false or misleading information for the verification;
• Violate Instagram Community Guidelines or Terms of Use;
• Promote services that violate Instagram Community Guidelines. Or Terms of Use;
• Attempt to get verified through a third party*;
• Place an add-me link to other social media (except Facebook) on your profile;
• Apply for verification multiple times before receiving a decision;

3. Check And Resolve Penalties:

• Go to Settings, Account, Account Status.
• Any given penalties will show up there.
• In case you have penalties, you may appeal, or wait until they expire, depending on penalty severity.
• If it doesn’t work for your case, consider using another – penalty-free account.
• Here is Instagram documentation about checking account status.

4. Use your checklist from the book and update the progress.

Step 2: Optimize Your Account

In this part, you will learn about what should be improved in your Instagram account for verification purposes.

We will talk about common patterns of successfully verified Instagram accounts. Its activity, followers count, and engagement rates.

Common Patterns

The majority of verified accounts from my experience have the following common patterns:

1. They are business and not personal accounts.
2. They have a proper category relevant to who they are and what they do.
3. The name in the bio (not the username) matches its legal name.
4. The account displays a professional profile picture of the owner.
5. The Instagram account is connected to its Facebook page.
6. The link section has no add-me link from other social networks.

Account Activity

In the past, Instagram required that you have published at least one post when applying for verification. That was precise and clear.

However, since then, Instagram documentation has changed. And now it requires that your account must be active when you apply.

And here is the closest official Instagram clarification that can shed some light on what does it mean to be active (or inactive):

An account is determined to be inactive based on a number of things, including the date the account was created and whether the account has been sharing photos, commenting on photos, liking photos, and logging in.

In other words, you should post content, comment, and like other content on Instagram to be considered active.

Eventually, it does not stop here. Instagram expects that you frequently engage with the app and continuously share new content.
After all, why would you need to be verified if you barely use the app and don’t help Instagram keep users on the platform?

It brings us up to a question, how often should you post to be considered for verification?

I recommend you post at least two times a week in the month, proceeding to the Instagram verification request. And while your request is under review. This range comes from the experience with successfully verified Instagram users.

Post at least two times a week in the month, proceeding to the Instagram verification request. And while your request is under review.

You can post more often if you wish, though. The suggested range is your bare minimum.

Please note that the overall amount of your posts plays no role here but how recent your posts are.

The overall amount of your posts plays no role here but how recent your posts are.

What should you post?

You can post anything that sparks user engagement and complies with Instagram Terms of Use and Community Guidelines.

Remember to show more of yourself with real photos and videos. Even if you mostly share your work. It displays your authenticity and openness to your audience.

Make sure that your content complies with Instagram recommended sizes:

• Square: 1080px by 1080px
• Portrait: 1080px by 1350px
• Landscape: 1080px by 608px

Don’t post low-resolution, blurred, or stretched images. Instagram appreciates a carefully crafted and engaging feed. That leaves an impression of someone who truly cares and invests time and effort into the app.

Followers

Instagram does not advise the minimum number of followers you should have to be eligible for Instagram verification. They mention, though, that followers count has nothing to do with verification criteria.

So, are you required to meet some minimum followers count threshold to get verified on Instagram?

The short answer is no. If you are a president of a country, an A-class celebrity, or an established international brand. If you are, you will get verified even with zero followers. But are you?

Chances you are not, at least yet. Therefore, the number of followers will depend on the level of your notability. In particular, the amount, quality, and recency of your press features. And priority factors that apply to you. More on notability in step 3.

Takeaways and final answer

Coming back to the point. The question that sounds like how many followers do I need for successful verification is not accurate. The more reasonable question is: how many followers do I need for successful verification, with the number, quality, and recency of press features I have?

The majority of verified users from my experience had at least 5k followers and more at the time of verification.

Take this number into your consideration.

Engagement Rate

I could not ignore this section as there are many misleading and speculative articles about engagement rates and verification success.

Engagement rate is one of the most relative and subjective criteria in the Instagram verification eligibility set.

Before proceeding, let’s synchronize our understanding of Instagram engagement rate.

Instagram engagement rate is the sum of the likes, shares, saves, and comments per post. Divided by the number of followers that you have and multiplied by 100.

Say you have 3’500 followers and 140 engagements per post. Then you divide 140 by 3’500 and multiply the result by 100. In this case, your engagement rate is 4%.

Bad in math? Me too. You can calculate your overall Instagram engagement rate with free tools like HypeAuditor. Their free package will help you do just that.

With that clarified, let’s look at the average Instagram engagement rate depending on the account size:

• 1K – 5K followers, average engagement is 5.60%
• 5K – 20K followers, average engagement is 2.43%
• 20K – 100K followers, average engagement is 2.15%
• 100K – 1M followers, average engagement is 2.05%
• 1M followers, average engagement is 1.97%

As you can see, the more followers you have, the less engagement rate you’re likely to have. It’s caused by the way the Instagram algorithm works. The more people follow you, the less reach you get as a percentage of your audience.

Coming back to our question. Depending on your followers’ count, if you meet or exceed your average, good for you.

If your engagement rate is lower than the average then don’t worry. Instagram accounts with relatively low engagement rates get verified all the time.

Instagram algorithm appreciates accounts with a high organic engagement level. But the company does not factor it in any way when it comes to verification.

If engagement rate was a factor for verification, anyone could throw a bunch of bots on their competitors. Killing their engagement levels and depriving the competitor’s brand of getting verified on Instagram.

Action Steps

Now you learned what should be improved in your Instagram account for verification purposes. Take the following steps to master this step.

1. Please, make sure that:

• Your Instagram account is a business and not a personal account.
• It has a proper category relevant to who you are and what you do.
• The name on your Instagram account matches your legal name.
• Your account displays a professional profile picture of you. Or your brand.
• Your Instagram is connected to your Facebook page.
• The link section in bio has no add-me link from other social networks.
• You post at least two times a week in the month, proceeding to the Instagram verification request. And while your request is under review.
• You understand that it’s preferable, but not mandatory to have at least 5000+ followers.

2. Use your checklist from the book and update the progress.

Step 3: Boost Your Notability

Failing the Notability test is why majority verification requests get rejected. While Instagram documentation does not explain much about Notability.

As a consequence, It breeds a myriad of confusions and misconceptions. One equates Notability to having a huge Instagram following. Another one to having a Wikipedia page. The third one will claim that having a Google Knowledge Panel will do the trick for you.

The above conditions may contribute to your overall verification score. But they have nothing to do with being Notable for Instagram. This step will show which factors do have.

The Number Of Press Features

Being Notable from an Instagram verification standpoint is having a minimum of 10-15 news features about you and what you do.

Ten or fifteen? How many exactly do you need to have from the above range?

The short answer is the more, the better.

The exact number from the range above depends on the quality of the features. Made up of the following factors: the prominence of media sources, depth of the features, language, and recency.

For now, please, take note of the number, and let us proceed to learn about their eligibility.

Eligible Press Features

Instagram considers news that meets all of the below criteria:

Full-Featured

News shall feature you, or what you do in an in-depth manner. Episodical appearance in the news posts does not count.

Google News Indexed

News shall be Google News Indexed. Meaning they shall appear in Google News.

Recent

News shall be published not earlier than six months ago.

Organic

News shall not be tagged as sponsored or paid content or as an ad.

Bonus Tip

Having your name in the news headline is highly advantageous. Having your high-quality photos in the articles is highly preferable too.

Eligible News Sources

Now we learned what news is acceptable for Instagram verification purposes.

But what news sources are considered by Instagram?

Let’s go ahead and see what sources will help you get verified on Instagram. And what sources will not.

We will start with ineligible sources. So you can get them out of your Instagram verification plan right away.

Ineligible Sources

Sources Owned By You or Your Business

In general, Instagram considers news sources not associated with yourself as a person or your business. That said, Instagram will not accept your blog or business website as an eligible news source. Those won’t get you verified on Instagram.

Websites With User-Generated Content

Instagram does not accept sources with user-generated content. The reason for that is pretty straightforward. You have to earn your media. Therefore do not waste your time publishing news about you or what you do on Medium hoping to get verified on Instagram. It won’t help.

Press Release Websites

Instagram does not accept press release websites as they are a source of sponsored content.

Press releases do not indicate any notability as everybody can get there for free or as low as a few dollars. They have no value for Instagram verification purposes.

Low Authority News Platforms

The fact that a news platform is not associated with you or your business. Or that it has no user-generated content. And it does not post press releases, does not qualify it as an eligible news source for Instagram verification.

There are tons of low authority news websites making money posting promotional and self-written articles about industry leaders of all sorts.

Platforms that fall into this category contain stories displaying nearly ecstatic admiration for one’s success. And a link to follow the hero or learn more about the subject on another platform.

These news sources are publicly available at Fiverr and other freelance platforms for as low as 40 bucks and higher. Instagram and Facebook are aware of them and don’t accept them as eligible news sources.

If you include links from these news websites in your application, you won’t get verified.

Instagram sees it as an imitation of notability ineptly disguised as organic, legit content. With all that it implies. From rejecting a verification request to removing the subject account.

Hence not only these platforms will not help you get verified on Instagram. But they discredit the whole idea of leveraging news sources to bring one’s truly earned notability to the surface.

Don’t take my words personally if you found yourself in the above example. I am setting it out from a neutral and unbiased standpoint. Sorting things into what will get you verified on Instagram. And what will not.

Eligible Sources

Now let’s talk about what news sources are eligible from an Instagram verification standpoint.

Instagram accepts local, national, and international news platforms with decent audience size.

The company does not disclose the minimum required number of monthly visitors for a platform to be considered eligible. However, a private conversation with a person close to the source indicated that the publication should have a minimum of two million unique visitors and a minimum of twenty thousand mentions per month.

I can not confirm that, nor can I disprove it. But, I’ve had successfully verified accounts with news features from sources with as low as 200-300k monthly visitors and up to 5k monthly mentions.

Takeaways

For Instagram to accept your news features, they shall come from reliable local, national, and international news platforms.

The platforms are not: owned by you or your business, websites with user-generated content, press release websites, and low authority news platforms.

How To Get Eligible News from Eligible News Sources?

Make no mistake.

You don’t want to waste time and money on the press that won’t get you verified on Instagram. Don’t get misled by dubious agencies that use blacklisted news sources.

Take this book and save yourself thousands of dollars. The book explains how to find and hire a professional. That provides legitimate and affordable press for a guaranteed verification on Instagram.

Action Steps

1. Use this book for complete guidance to obtain 10-15 press for a guaranteed Instagram verification.
2. If you want to obtain organic press features for free, follow this step-by-step guide.
3. Got the press? Great! Use your checklist from the book and update the progress.

Step 4: Get Prioritized

As you learned, Instagram verification success depends on factors like press features, account activity recency, guidelines compliance, and so on.

But some additional factors can help you get much higher chances to get verified on Instagram.

These factors include the way you submit your verification request. Your account category. And if your name is currently hot in the news. Let’s dive in and see what we can use.

Submission Methods

Getting Verified On Instagram Through Media Partner Portal

A Media Partner Support Portal is a tool that streamlines communication between Facebook and its valuable Media Partners.

The Partners manage million-dollar ad campaigns for brands and individuals. They use the portal to claim usernames, merge pages. And get their clients verified on Instagram.

Submitting a verification request via Media Partner Portal gives two advantages over a regular in-app submission:

Media Partner Portal allows adding more context around the account submitted for verification.

In contrast with in-app submission. Where you only include up to five links, which is barely enough for Notability proof, Media Partner Portal allows you to provide more references. And gather other information that can significantly increase your chances of getting verified.

It guarantees the verification request gets handled by a human.

Instagram has a user base of one billion people and is growing. Whether eligible or not, millions of Instagram users who want to get verified on Instagram apply daily.

To cope with such load, Instagram processes verification requests using algorithms.

If you’re trying to get verified on Instagram through the app, you join the queue of hundreds of millions of other requests, reviewed by the algorithm.

Almost all the time, the output of such a review is a rejection without escalation to a human review.

Even big-name celebrities and brands can’t get verified on Instagram using the app. Most of them end up getting verified through the Media Partner Portal.

That said, let me address some misconceptions about Media Partner Portal and In-app submission.

In-app verification requests are useless.

It is not necessarily so. Submitting a verification request through the app does not mean you won’t get verified.

I was involved in cases where in-app requests got approved, even after prior unsuccessful attempts.

People and brands get verified less frequently through in-app submission than through Media Partner Portal, but it’s still a viable method.

Verification request made via the Media Partner Portal guarantees that you get verified.

No, it does not. Any reliable Media Partner will only agree to submit your request if your account meets verification criteria and if it seems to have success with verification.

Finally, let me repeat it:

Media partners are not allowed to charge fees to get their clients verified. However, they may charge for a PR service and then submit a verification request for free.

Never attempt to buy access to the Media Partner Portal. This is strictly against Facebook Guidelines and the web is full of shady players.

Getting Verified On Instagram Through Facebook Ads Manager

If you run Facebook ads, you get access to Facebook Ads Manager. You can use it to submit a verification request.

This verification request method is not as effective as submission through Media Partner Portal. But it’s more likely to get you verified than with an in-app verification request. Here is why:

First, it lets Facebook know that you invest money in the platform and help Facebook grow its business. This condition sets you apart from the majority of Instagram users who try to get verified via the app.

It makes more sense for Instagram to verify you, as verification can benefit your ad spend and hence, make you invest more in Facebook ads.

Like with Media Partner Portal, submitting your verification request via the Facebook Manager allows you to provide more links and provide more information that can significantly increase your chances of getting verified.

Key Takeaways

While the in-app submission method is still a viable option, a verification request made via Facebook Ads Manager has a better chance of success. Finally, a verification request made via Media Partner Portal is the most reliable among all methods.

Getting Verified On Instagram Using Priority Account Categories

The sole purpose of Instagram Verification is to distinguish authentic accounts of notable people and brands from impostors, keeping the community (and Instagram/Facebook itself) away from troubles.

That said, if we take a bunch of accounts equally qualified to formal verification criteria, those accounts that are more likely to get impersonalized will be more prioritized for verification than others. Let us have a closer look.

Politicians

Open Instagram and search for a name of a decently known politician. How many accounts do you see?

It is common to see politicians impersonalized by fake accounts, created for any reason. From making fun to manipulating communities.

The latter may cause significant consequences, some of us have seen. Instagram wants to stay clear of it. Therefore it will prioritize a verification of a decently known political figure.

Athletes

Professional sports are closely related to gambling and illegal pharmacology. Athletes are a very likely target for imposters, selling illegal services and products. It makes perfect sense for Instagram to get them verified.

Musicians/Bands

Musical Artists are one of the prime candidates for verification.

They produce and share high-quality and engaging content that helps Instagram get more users and keep them on the platform.

Artists and their managers hold copyrights that get violated by fan accounts, parody, and imposters, all the time. These factors make artists ideal candidates for verification.

Celebrities/Public Figures

What is Instagram’s universal currency? That’s right – attention.

Celebrities attract tons of attention wherever they go. And social media platforms are not an exception.

When a celebrity registers and uses Instagram, it brings and keeps tons of new users in the app. Which helps Instagram grow and thrive.

And this is where a verification becomes crucial to keep the community safe and sure that fans follow the right person and not an impostor or a parody.

Influencers Outside Instagram

Youtubers, Tiktokers, and other influencers with a decent following outside Instagram are very likely to get verified on Instagram.

I’ve seen Youtubers with 500K+ subscribers getting verified even without any press features.

Like in example with celebrities, influencers with a decent following outside Instagram help the app grow its userbase and interactions.

It creates a perfect sense for Instagram to verify them and let their fans know they follow the right account.

Key Takeaways

The above account categories. As well as Influencers with a decent following outside Instagram. And those who get impersonalized by fake accounts, are prime candidates for Instagram verification.

Time-Limited Advantage

As you learned from the previous steps, your hard-earned press features have a shelf life of six months for verification purposes.

If you scored headlines more than six months ago, Instagram may not consider them as eligible.

But if you’re applying while your name is hot, you get a time-limited advantage to get successfully verified.

Don’t get upset about your older press appearance. It does not mean it’s worthless now.

Regardless of the age, high-quality press features positively impact your Instagram Verification eligibility in other ways.

For example, they improve your overall online presence and let Google serve the Instagram team with richer results about you when they look you up.

One example of such rich results is Google Knowledge Panel with your name, photo, bio, and social media links.

We will cover Google Knowledge Panel and its impact on your verification success in more detail in the book.

Key Takeaways

For Instagram verification purposes, count only on your relatively fresh press features. Published not earlier than six months ago.

High-quality press features that are older than six months are still handy. As they boost your overall online presence and let Google serve the Instagram team with richer results about you when they look you up.

Your Audience

If we take two Instagram accounts with similar eligibility statuses, the one with a more diverse, high-income audience will prevail for verification.

Disclaimer: this condition has nothing to do with ethnic, political, or religious aspects, whatsoever. It’s a pure business and risk matter.

Instagram accounts with a diverse, high-quality audience from developed countries with relatively established economies, high personal income, and spending power help the platform sustain its core business (which is selling ads)

If your Instagram audience actively engages with ads and buys stuff through the platform, it helps Instagram grow its business and sell more ads.

In addition, Instagram accounts with high-quality audiences that signal a high spending power become a frequent target for scammers of all sorts.

The above factors create a perfect sense for Instagram to protect a person or a brand with a verification checkmark. To sustain further growth and profit while keeping the community safe.

Key Takeaways

It makes more sense that your account requires verification if your audience includes users from developed countries with relatively established economies, high personal income, and spending power.

Action Steps

1. Re-attend the Get Prioritized step and leverage whatever you can:

Do you have impostor accounts on Instagram? If you do, report them to Instagram one by one. Instagram will take note of that in your profile data. It will give you another priority factor.

Does it belong to any priority account categories? If it does, please make that clear to Instagram by setting the proper category for your profile.

Do you have a decent audience outside Instagram? Make a note of that. We will come back to it in the Apply For Verification step

Open your Instagram audience analytics or scan your Instagram profile with a free version of Hypeauditor to look at your audience.

What are the top countries for your audience? What is the household income level?

If most of your audience comes from countries with relatively established economies, and have a high household income, then this is another score for your verification. Instagram will see it.

2. Use your checklist from the book and update the progress.

Step 5: Apply For Verification

It’s time to apply for your Instagram verification and get verified!

Let’s go through the best practices for submitting your request using the in-app, Facebook Ads Manager, and Media Partner Portal methods.

Instagram Verification Though In-App Submission

You will find the Verification request form under Settings, Account, Request verification.

Step 1: Confirm Authenticity

Full Name

Make sure you provide the full name that matches your legal name and Instagram profile name.

It is not apparent for many. But if the bio name does not match the legal name, Instagram won’t get you verified.

Document Type

Make sure you provide an eligible document that matches the document type accepted by Instagram. You will see the acceptable types once you tap on the Document Type button.

The name on the document shall match the Full Name you specified in your request and your profile.

Step 2: Confirm Notability

Category

In this field, please specify the category that matches your account category.

Audience

Even though this field is optional, please make the most of the application form and provide Instagram with as much relevant information around your account as you can.

As long as it applies to you, you can mention that your Instagram audience buys your products or services. They come from other venues to join you on the platform.

Your audience sees your ads and wants to learn more about you and what you offer.

They may be confused by impostors that steal and sell your work.

If you have a decent audience outside Instagram, mention it here the way Instagram can fact-check it.

Please be honest and genuine.

Also Known As

If your press features, Google Knowledge Panel, and other available reliable media have your name that is different from your legal and profile name, put such name in this section.

For instance, this can be your name in another language, a nickname, or a pen name.

Links

To be sincere, I can’t wrap my head around the fact that Instagram calls this field optional.

It is the most crucial part of your submission. As it shows whether you qualify for notability. If you do not, no matter what other fields contain, Instagram won’t get you verified.

We’ve come a long way to gather sufficient evidence of your notability. Please use each of the five links given in this field.

By default, you will see a space only for three links. Tap Add Link, and you will get two more.

If you have followed me so far, you might ask: how can you include a minimum of ten links if you only get to include up to five links?

I’m glad you asked. Use the first four fields to include the most important links. These links are from the most reliable sources and feature you at full display.

Use the fifth field to include a link to your Reference File, that displays all your PR and media references that prove the notability of your persona or business.

You can download the Reference File from the Useful Resources section of the book.

Once you fill the Reference File, upload it to Google Docs, a Dropbox, or another cloud drive of your choice. Make sure you make the file publicly accessible.

That’s it! Instagram will reply within thirty days. In my experience, the reply comes within a few days or a week.

Please do not submit another request before receiving a decision, as it will cancel your application.

Please be patient and remember that you’ve made everything you could to stand out among 99% of other requests, and leave the rest to Instagram.

Instagram Verification Though Facebook Ads Manager

In this scenario, we will learn how to apply for verification using Facebook Ads Manager.

1. Navigate to your Facebook Ads Manager;
2. Click Help;
3. Chose Contact Support Team;
4. Then click on Select the related account;
5. Find the Instagram account you want to verify. And choose it;
6. Click on Please select the issue;
7. And chose I want to request an Instagram verification;
8. Click Contact Support;
9. You will see the quesiton: How would you like to get help? Select the available option between Email or Chat. Usually, it is the chat that is available for this type of request;
10. Provide your email, phone number and use the message field to describe your request: Please find my verification request with the necessary information. Thank you for your consideration.
11. Include a link to your reference file and all information required from the previous in-app submission method;
12. Click Start Chat and follow along.

You may need to wait for the standard review period of thirty days. But you may receive feedback much sooner.

Again, please do not submit another request before receiving a decision, as it will cancel your application.

Instagram Verification Though Media Partner Portal

You can’t get verified on Instagram through Media Partner Portal unless you have someone with portal access.

As discussed earlier in Submission Methods, you have to find a Facebook Media Partner that can submit a verification request for you.

Please, use this book to find and choose a reliable Media Partner.

Please note that Media partners are not allowed to charge fees for verification or similar services. However, they may charge you for a PR service and then submit your request for free.

Never attempt to buy access to the Media Partner Portal. This is strictly against Facebook Guidelines and the web is full of shady players.

It is worth mentioning that when applying to get verified on Instagram through the Portal, you can expect feedback within a few business days.

Your agency should keep you posted on all the steps of your verification submission process and advice if you need any improvements to your account or PR before submitting your request.

Action Steps

1. Choose your application submission method and follow instructions and best practices given for your method.
2. Use your checklist from the book to update the progress.

How To Get Verified On Instagram. Final Thoughts

If you follow these steps along with this complete guide you are guaranteed to get verified on Instagram. Period.

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