What is trendingon Instagram Reels right now
The fastest-moving Reels in the niches faceless creators post in, ranked by views per day since posting, the same way as our TikTok and YouTube Shorts pages. Every Reel links back to Instagram.
Last refreshed Nov 9 · each page states its own date
Niches
30 niches, one hashtag each
Recent Reels under one hashtag, refreshed weekly. Each niche also has a TikTok and a YouTube Shorts page, so you can see what works on all three.
AI animation
Animated shorts made with generation tools, mostly in the soft 3D look that Pixar made familiar.
#aianimation · 24 ranked
See what is movingAI ASMR
Generated satisfying clips such as slicing, crunching and pouring, where the sound design matters as much as the picture.
#aiasmr · 16 ranked
See what is movingAI brainrot
Deliberately absurd generated characters and non-sequitur voiceovers, where the strangeness is the hook and a recurring character is what brings people back.
#brainrot
See what is movingReddit stories
Anonymous posts read aloud over gameplay or stills, where the post's last line has to land as a twist.
#redditstories
See what is movingHorror stories
Narrated horror, which compresses into a minute better than almost any other kind of fiction.
#horrorstories
See what is movingHistory
One event, one detail, one minute. The niche where being specific beats being broad.
#historyfacts
See what is movingMotivation
Short-form motivational content, which is the most crowded niche on the platform and still moves.
#motivation
See what is movingTrue crime
A real case told in under a minute: the one detail investigators missed, stated first. Accuracy and respect for the victims are the whole job.
#truecrime
See what is movingFitness
Training and form content, where the on-camera half dominates and the explainer half does not.
#fitnesstips
See what is movingLife hacks
Quick fixes for everyday problems. Mostly hands-on demonstrations, so an explained, step-by-step hack is the gap a generated video can fill.
#lifehacks
See what is movingAI cartoon
Short cartoons where the drawing is generated, so the script and the character carry the video.
#aicartoon
See what is movingAI cat
Generated cats in little stories: a kitten's bad day, a cat with a job, a cat family drama. The biggest single animal in AI Shorts, and the one where a clear story beats a cute face.
#aicat
See what is movingAI animal
Generated animals, mostly cats, doing human things, which works when the joke would still land with a real animal.
#aianimals
See what is movingCooking
Recipes at speed. The one niche where a real kitchen still beats anything generated.
#easyrecipes
See what is movingPersonal finance
Money explained quickly, for people who did not come here for a spreadsheet.
#personalfinance
See what is movingPsychology facts
Counter-intuitive claims about behaviour, one per video — the highest-retention facts format there is.
#psychologyfacts
See what is movingDark psychology
How persuasion and manipulation tactics work, explained so viewers can spot them. The useful ones teach the defence, not the trick.
#darkpsychology
See what is movingStoicism
One Stoic idea, usually from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus, applied to a modern problem in a single narrated minute.
#stoicism
See what is movingMythology
Gods, monsters and curses retold in under a minute, mostly from Greek myth, where the strangest detail makes the best opening.
#mythology
See what is movingParanormal
Ghost sightings, haunted places and unexplained encounters. A narrated account with a slow build is the version you can make without a camera crew at midnight.
#paranormal
See what is movingReal estate
Agents' market updates, buyer and seller tips and listing tours. The tour needs the house on camera; the tips and the market explainer do not.
#realestate · 20 ranked
See what is movingSmall business
Owners showing their shop, packing orders and telling how they started, a niche where the behind-the-scenes clip sells better than the advert.
#smallbusiness · 24 ranked
See what is movingRestaurant
Kitchens, signature dishes and the story behind a place, where a restaurant's own footage of its food is the best ad it has.
#restaurant · 22 ranked
See what is movingHome renovation
Before-and-after remodels, repairs and DIY fixes, the format contractors win jobs with when the price and the timeline are on screen.
#homerenovation · 24 ranked
See what is movingInterior design
Room makeovers and design rules from designers, where a before-and-after with the cost stated is what turns viewers into clients.
#interiordesign · 24 ranked
See what is movingPersonal trainer
One exercise, one correction or one client result per short, from trainers and gyms filling their own sessions.
#personaltrainer · 23 ranked
See what is movingMed spa
Treatments, results and day-in-the-life clips from aesthetic clinics, where the before-and-after has to be real and labelled as such.
#medspa
See what is movingDentist
Procedures explained, patient questions answered and the odd satisfying clean, from practices; general information only, never advice on anyone's teeth.
#dentist
See what is movingE-commerce
Online shops showing products, packing orders and the numbers behind the store; the product demo is what turns a view into a sale.
#ecommerce
See what is movingMortgage
Rates, first-time buyer questions and how a loan really works, from loan officers and brokers; general information, never advice on anyone's mortgage.
#mortgage
See what is movingQuestions
Where does this Reels data come from?
The public Reels under one hashtag per niche, read once a week through Apify, a web-data platform, and ranked by us by views per day since posting. We keep the numbers, captions and links, never the videos.
Why no trending audio?
No source we can read gives Instagram's trending audio reliably, and we only publish what a real source gives us. Instagram shows trending audio inside the app, under Reels audio.
Is this affiliated with Instagram or Meta?
No. Veedio is an independent short-video maker; every Reel links back to Instagram.