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Exchanges Apr 13, 2026

Shares Exchange

Learn how the Shares Exchange works, how to earn share points, and how to get your content reshared by other creators.

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What is the Shares Exchange?

The Shares Exchange is a reciprocal engagement system designed to boost your post's virality and reach. By sharing other creators' posts via DMs or Stories, you earn points. You can then spend those points to have your own posts shared by other real creators in the community.

Shares are one of the most heavily weighted metrics in the Instagram algorithm, directly signaling to Instagram that your content is valuable enough to be passed along to others.

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Live Rooms: when the exchange is actually running

The Shares Exchange no longer runs around the clock against people who aren't there. It opens as a live room, and while a room is open you are matched only with the other creators inside it. Everyone gives, everyone receives, in the same session.

A Shares room opens the moment 8 creators are ready at the same time. There is no fixed day and no schedule to wait for — if enough people are ready right now, it opens right now. Rooms can also be opened at an announced time, which we use when we want everyone in one place.

In a room of 8, the system grants each creator about 5 shares to receive, and raises that as more creators arrive. Nobody's share shrinks because the room grew — late arrivals top up everyone already inside.

What you do: open the exchange, press I'm ready to engage, and you are counted. Your seat holds for a full hour even if you close the tab, so you can go and prepare while you wait. If the room hasn't opened by then, mark yourself ready again — the counter is a rolling hour, not a countdown that wipes everyone at once.

Once open, a room stays open for at least an hour, then closes when fewer than 4 creators are still in it.

Queue two or three posts before a room opens. Each creator in the room can engage a given post of yours only once, so a single queued post is a bottleneck — more posts give the room somewhere to put what it owes you.

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How to Earn Points

You earn share points by completing share engagements in the "Accumulate Points" mode:

  • Free tier — 1 point per 7 shares
  • Pro tier — 1 point per 6 shares
  • Max tier — 1 point per 5 shares

Points are awarded automatically as you complete the required sharing tasks. You can track your available share points at the top of the interface.

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How to Spend Points

To get your own posts shared by the community:

  1. Go to the Shares Exchange page and select Spend Points mode
  2. Select the specific post you want to boost from your connected Instagram account
  3. Choose how many points you want to spend (1 point = 5 shares received)
  4. Submit your order

Your post will enter the engagement queue, and the system will automatically distribute it for other users to share based on your niche and target audience.

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Sharing Guidelines

When accumulating points by sharing other users' content, you must ensure that your shares are genuine.

The system asks you to honestly confirm you have shared the content. Repeatedly failing to share content you claim to have shared will negatively affect your internal health score and could restrict your access to the exchange. Always respect the community and share the content as instructed!