Hi,
Thanks for answering, I’m not new to growing Instagram accounts, we are growing real instagram profiles for more than 3 years now, and may I add very successfully, but since last December liking become very difficult, and since these are real clients accounts, including major brands, they are not into follow/unfollow or any other way that you can use on other accounts, so liking is the way we grow them.
Apparently instagram has other plans for us 
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Not all proxies are made equal. The word “residential” does not stand for a quality standard itself.
Are you using like after follow?
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Yeah I would hire someone from this forum to help you. There are MUCH better methods out there. Calling @Babs @dma0245 and I see @HenryCooper replying so you might want to check with them, especially as a brand.
They are using only likes.
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Ops. Overread that one 
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On these profiles we don’t use follow at all, only liking at 30/h with night sleep and random delays…
Try to remove all like filters and start liking generic hashtag posts that are related to each other. The amount of API calls and possibly your API call VS actually like endpoint request ratio might be an issue.
Example:
#kitty, #cat, #cute OR #car, #audi, #bmw etc. I hope you see and understand the pattern.
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we use smartproxy - residential proxies, from what we tested, they have decent proxies.
Smartproxy uses a rotating feature that might put you on the same IP that someone had for spamming or account creation seconds ago. Correct me if I am wrong please.
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I still have “legacy” clients that insist on growing with this method because they are too cheap for other methods. I can tell you, they give me the worst time.
It’s difficult to really grow with only 600- 900 likes per day. I spent a lot of money trying to find proxies that wouldn’t burn out or even allow that many.
You need a pro that knows how to Master/Slave. Your clients will appreciate it much more.
I have worked with brands in the past, and making sure that their account didn’t accidentally like a shirtless guy (unless that was their niche) is difficult. Especially for alcohol brands.
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I tried them, they are also stupid expensive.
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I guess it’s possible…we use sticky sessions but you are right, someone else can use these proxies and “burn” them for me.
what kind of proxies you use for liking?
@HenryCooper 's mobile and @Digital7Boy residential. While I can recommend them as a proxy provider, You really should think about a consultation with @HenryCooper (I actually don’t know if he offers consulting for this TBH) or @Babs. I would say that in the next 6 -9 months you are going to have an even harder time and be that much further behind the curve.
To add to it, you are unknowingly reducing the reach of your clients accounts. Just my 2 cents.
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we hardly use hashtags at all as sources, we target followers of competitors, or same interest pages, hashtags don’t work for us as well as that.
The recommendation was not intended to increase your growth, it was intended to help you finding out where your issue actually is buried.
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I appreciate what your saying, but please explain the “reducing the reach of your clients”, what do you mean by that?
I see…I’ll try that, thanks!
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Since Instagram likes are widely abused for growth, for spam etc and for like farms, they are more restricted than follows I think at this point.
Like, Follow, and DM are the most widely abused and that’s why they have limits as compared to liking comments etc.
When an account is consistently sending out hundreds of likes per day, you are sending a few thousand API calls. I’ve noticed reduced reach (impressions, etc) on any account that uses the API this way.
The “Mother” account doesn’t use these actions to grow and will have better reach as everything will seem more organic.
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Have you noticed a threshold of API calls where reach is throttled or reduced ? Like something to stay under or kind of across the board any API calls reduce reach in your data?
I don’t monitor the endpoints or API calls in any meaningful way, so this question is better suited for @HenryCooper.
I can only speak about JARVEE since I don’t use anything else and have no idea what you use.
There are multiple ways to lower the number of API calls. Some are easier than others. JARVEE was certain things built in to minimize, as well as options for slave scrape accounts to lower the necessary API calls for any function such as like or follow etc.
I used to be more analytical and would have tested with lots of accounts, but I have been busy for the last year plus starting a brick and mortar business in no way related to Instagram (except that we also use IG of course).
I would think outside of what a normal person does. We can all theorize or guess an average, only FB/IG have the real data.
There is laundry list of things that can and will reduce reach. Some are theory, some are hard fact.
My business account I have babied since I created it via 4G 2 years ago. Only on my actual home IP or mobile proxy.
VERY conservative actions. Like a 6 month warm up period, lol. I never botted it hard, basically kept it very random and low actions, but I have reduced reach. The content is “meh” (it’s a business IG guys what can I say? Plus my wife posts whatever the hell she wants, it’s her business too I guess).
So yeah, I would think no normal human follows 200 people per day 5 days a week and is ALWAYS able to unfollow EXACTLY whoever unfollowed them. I did gentle likes to grow for about 6 months. Conservative, maybe 300 per day. I don’t even send DM’s.
I stopped all tools for a month and reach went back up, posting manually and zero JARVEE actions.
I have a M/S setup raring to go, I just need more SIM’s and am having trouble rolling back my old iPhone (iOS updated 12 will not allow me to use non carrier SIM’s, anything under will).
So once I have it going I can give more concrete proof since I will be using IG analytics.
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