{"id":8058,"date":"2020-08-07T11:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/resources\/?p=8058\/"},"modified":"2020-08-07T11:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T11:30:16","slug":"schedule-instagram-posts","status":"publish","type":"knowledge_base","link":"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/knowledge_base\/schedule-instagram-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to schedule Instagram posts for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve talked a dozen times about how important it is to plan marketing content ahead of time. Instagram is no exception here. Apart from just planning and preparing content for your Instagram profile, it\u2019s often very useful also to have the possibility to schedule Instagram posts in advance. That way you don\u2019t have to remember to publish them manually each day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ll show you today how to schedule Instagram posts easily and without using a paid-for app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Schedule Instagram posts with Facebook\u2019s Creator Studio<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you heard about Creator Studio? It looks like many marketers still haven\u2019t!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook\u2019s Creator Studio is a platform within Facebook that helps to publish, schedule, manage and analyze your content from Facebook and Instagram.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you were wondering why it\u2019s no longer possible to schedule Facebook posts from a Facebook Page, Creator Studio is a place where this function has now moved.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to have the possibility to schedule (or publish) Instagram posts for free with Creator Studio, make sure you\u2019ve done the following:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have a Facebook Page &#8211; if you don\u2019t have it yet, you need to create one*.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ve switched your Instagram profile to a Business Profile or Creator Profile.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You\u2019ve connected your Instagram profile with your Facebook Page (the one you own or manage). You can connect your Instagram profile to a Facebook Page directly from Facebook&#8217;s Creator Studio.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*If you\u2019re creating a Facebook Page just for this purpose, remember that this Facebook Page doesn\u2019t have to be published or available publicly.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the Creator Studio you can either publish or schedule a post to your profile or IGTV video. For now, it\u2019s not possible to schedule (or publish) Instagram Stories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8059\" style=\"width: 861px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8059\" class=\" wp-image-8059\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zrzut-ekranu-2020-08-3-o-13.05.16-1024x267.png\" alt=\"schedule instagram post \" width=\"851\" height=\"222\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Creating an Instagram post from the Creator Studio<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you publish or schedule a post via Creator Studio, can also add a location of a post, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/how-to-use-hashtags-on-instagram\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hashtags<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a caption and tag a business partner as well. What is very convenient is that by publishing posts via Creator Studio, you\u2019ll see also how many characters you have left to use in your caption, and how many hashtags you can still add (keeping in mind that the limit is 30 hashtags in one post). <\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8060\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8060\" class=\" wp-image-8060\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zrzut-ekranu-2020-08-3-o-14.53.09.png\" alt=\"publish instagram post from desktop\" width=\"850\" height=\"385\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Publishing an Instagram post from the Creator Studio<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Analyzing Instagram performance with a Creator Studio is now easier\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Switching to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/business-instagram-sotrender\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Business Account<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and using Creator Studio also has another advantage. To some extent, analyzing your Instagram performance will become slightly easier. Especially if you didn\u2019t have access to your data on a desktop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, you have access to your Instagram Insights from Creator Studio &#8211; in a slightly different format, however for the same period of time &#8211; the last 7 days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8061\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8061\" class=\" wp-image-8061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zrzut-ekranu-2020-08-3-o-14.55.51.png\" alt=\"instagram insights on desktop\" width=\"850\" height=\"517\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram data presented in the Creator Studio<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To access your Instagram data from here, just click on the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insights<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> tab on the menu on the left.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8062\" style=\"width: 861px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8062\" class=\" wp-image-8062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zrzut-ekranu-2020-08-4-o-10.09.59.png\" alt=\"instagram insights in creator studio\" width=\"851\" height=\"406\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to access Instagram Insights from a desktop<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Get the full view of your Instagram performance\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you still feel like the data presented in Creator Studio is not enough for you, especially if you want to improve your performance and understand your audience better, then the solution is trying some social media analytical app. One of them is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sotrender.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sotrender<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It offers a variety of advantages for a modern marketer:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Easy view to analyze <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/instagram-stories-brands\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram Stories<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; the hottest Instagram format at the moment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Possibility to generate comprehensive reports summarizing your Instagram efforts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Variety of metrics informing about your engagement, audience and content performance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Access to all your data from the moment you connect your profile to the app, even from the previous year.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8063\" style=\"width: 931px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8063\" class=\" wp-image-8063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sotrender.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Zrzut-ekranu-2020-08-4-o-10.50.01-1024x357.png\" alt=\"instagram analytics\" width=\"921\" height=\"321\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Instagram analytics in Sotrender<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/3842881\/b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f\" class=\"hs-cta-img aligncenter\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/3842881\/b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f.png\" alt=\"Start analyzing\u00a0your Instagram performance\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(3842881, 'b1ea7bd2-bb02-49cc-a97a-181fd9810e9f', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook and Instagram are continuously developing its features, so we may expect new things to come in the future. However, most probably, these tools won\u2019t offer as much as external apps when it comes to publishing, managing or analyzing content, that\u2019s why it\u2019s always good to know and test some alternatives.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":8064,"template":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to schedule Instagram posts for free from a desktop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We\u2019ll show you today how to schedule Instagram posts easily from a desktop, without using a paid-for app.\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwprod.sotrender.com\/blog\/knowledge_base\/schedule-instagram-posts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" 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