The Top Ten Cities with the Most Instagram Mega-influencers

10 Cities with the Most Instagram Mega-influencers

In the economy of attention, dollars follow the eyes. So in the modern world, Instagram influencers with millions of followers are equal to people with millions of dollars, there are so many ways to monetize their social following.

We get used to Forbes lists, such as Richest Cities In The World: The Top 10 Cities With The Most Billionaires, and decided to make a list of Most Influential Cities In The World: The Top Ten Cities with the most Instagram mega-influencers.

HypeAuditor has a base of over 8.6 million Instagram influencers and 20,720 of these accounts are mega-influencers boasting over 1M followers.

We analyzed the location of Instagram mega-influencers and found the top ten cities with the most Instagram Influencers.

The Top Ten Cities with the Most Instagram Mega-influencers

  • Los Angeles – 469

  • New York – 359

  • Sao Paolo – 204

  • Mexico – 182

  • London – 162

  • Miami – 156

  • Moscow – 155

  • Dubai – 149

  • Istanbul – 107

  • Paris – 106

The city with the most Instagram Mega-influencers is Los Angeles

Los Angeles is the most populous city in the United States after New York City. Los Angeles is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. The city is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood, and entertainment industry.

If we dive deeper into categories of mega Instagram influencers from Los Angeles we will see that the majority of creators post in the niches of Beauty & Fashion (31%), Movies and TV (27%), and Music (21%).
Los Angeles is the point of attraction for big money and people of creative professions.

Beauty and Fashion Instagram mega-influencers from Los Angeles

Arianny Celeste

Number of followers: 3.2 M
Arianny Celeste is an American ring girl and model. She is best known for being a ring girl for the UFC. She is also a co-host on the TV show Overhaulin’ and a model featured in Playboy magazine.

Jasmine Brown

Number of followers: 1.3 M
Jasmine Brown is a model and YouTube star otherwise known as JasMeannnn who gained popularity posting vlogs, tags, and beauty tutorials.

Antje Utgaard

Followers: 1.8 M
American model and Instagram superstar with nearly 2 million followers. Antje, who has been featured in Maxim and Playboy (which called her the next Kate Upton), is one of the fastest-rising stars on Instagram.

Movies and TV Instagram mega-influencers from Los Angeles

Carolina Gaitan

Followers: 3.4 M
Carolina Gaitán, is a Colombian singer, model, and television actress. She has been working on television since 2002, becoming known for the television program, Popstars: Colombia.

Kevin Smith

Followers: 2 M
Kevin Patrick Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, public speaker, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy film Clerks, which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob.

Beth Behrs

Followers: 1 M
Elizabeth Ann Behrs is an American actress and writer best known for her starring role as Caroline Channing in the CBS comedy series 2 Broke Girls. The show ran successfully for six seasons and earned Behrs praise and nominations for the Teen and the People’s Choice Awards.

Music Instagram mega-influencers from Los Angeles

Sasha Zvereva

Followers: 1 M
Sasha Zvereva is a Russian pop singer.

Jack Avery

Followers: 2M
Rising singer-songwriter who quickly built a fan base thanks to his piano and guitar skills in accompaniment with his smooth, soulful voice.

Dillon Francis

Followers: 2.3 M
Dillon Hart Francis is an American electronic musician, record producer, and DJ. A native of Los Angeles, he is best known for popularizing the moombahton genre.

How HypeAuditor Detects Instagram Users Location

HypeAuditor detects the location of influencers by the analysis of publicly available location information on the profile of the influencer. Our AI includes the following patterns in the analysis:

  • Location geotag in bio;

  • Content in the bio;

  • Location geotag in the last 12 posts.

The priority is given to the location geotag in bio, while the last priority is dedicated to location geotag in the last post. Our comprehended algorithm analyzes multiple patterns, prioritizes them, and then identifies the most frequently repeated ones.

HypeAuditor is an AI-powered account analytics tool that helps you get insights about the creator’s audience, increase advertisers’ ROI, and safeguard authenticity in influencer marketing. It sets a standard for Instagram analytics by providing the most accurate data.

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Nick is a marketing and research specialist at HypeAuditor, with a passion for exploring social media trends and uncovering insights to help businesses make informed decisions, recognized by leading publications and events for his expertise in influencer marketing and dedicated to driving innovation in the dynamic world of social media.
Topics:Influencer discovery
January 28, 2020
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Nick is a marketing and research specialist at HypeAuditor, with a passion for exploring social media trends and uncovering insights to help businesses make informed decisions, recognized by leading publications and events for his expertise in influencer marketing and dedicated to driving innovation in the dynamic world of social media.
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