Average Instagram Engagement Rate for Automotive Brands
Measured from public profiles, not taken from an industry average. Every figure below names the number of accounts behind it.
The median for automotive brands is 0.31%
Half of the 7 automotive brands we have measured sit above it and half below. The middle half of the category falls between 0.18% and 0.43%, so a rate inside that band is ordinary for automotive brands and one outside it is worth explaining.
Where the category sits
- Bottom quarterunder 0.18%
- Median0.31%
- Top quarterabove 0.43%
From 7 measured automotive brands of the 19 in the catalogue. Accounts without a reading are absent rather than assumed.
Most engaged automotive brands we measure
- Bugatti0.46%
- Volkswagen0.43%
- Audi0.32%
- Ferrari0.31%
- Toyota0.21%
- Harley-Davidson0.18%
- Honda0.1%
Rate rewards small, active audiences, so this list is not a ranking of the biggest automotive brands. The full automotive brand table ranks by followers and carries both numbers.
The number this page cannot give you
Engagement rate counts what happens on the brand’s own posts. It says nothing about the posts other people make: a customer photographing the product, a creator naming it in a caption, a reviewer who never tagged the account. That is a separate measurement, and for most consumer brands it is the larger one.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good Instagram engagement rate for automotive brands?
Half the 7 automotive brands we measure sit above 0.31% and half below, so 0.31% is the line worth comparing against. The middle half of the category falls between 0.18% and 0.43%.
How is engagement rate calculated here?
Interactions on recent posts against follower count, read from the public profile. It is the common definition, which matters more than the best definition: a benchmark is only useful if the number you compare against was worked out the same way as yours.
Why not use a published industry average for automotive brands?
Because almost none of them say what they measured. An average across an unnamed sample, of accounts of unstated size, at an unstated date, is a number you cannot check. Every figure here names the category, the count behind it and the fact that it comes from repeated readings of public profiles.
Does a low engagement rate mean the account is failing?
Not on its own, and large accounts systematically read lower: the rate has followers in the denominator, so growth pushes it down while reach goes up. The more useful question is whether people are posting about the brand at all, which is a different measurement and not one a rate can answer.
Other categories
Figures are read from Instagram and stored with the date they were taken. An em dash means no reading exists yet.