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Starlecta cross-sector overview

Turkey influencer marketing on Instagram, October 2026: 11 sectors

A cross-sector read of the 11 weekly reports of 19–25 October 2026 and their nine-week series from 24 August

Published
Period
19–25 October 2026; nine weeks from 24 August 2026
Sources
11 weekly sector reports, published 30 Oct 2026, counters read 29 Oct 2026
Coverage
Turkey
Platform
Instagram

This overview reads the 11 weekly sector reports for 19–25 October 2026 side by side. The tracked universe is the set of Turkish Instagram creator accounts Starlecta follows: about 12 thousand at the start of that week and about 51 thousand after 24–26 October.

  • In the tracked universe on 19–25 October 2026, the ten reports other than Fashion add up to 60,139 contents; 55,827 of them are in the Marketplaces report (Trendyol, Hepsiburada, n11, Amazon TR), where the story share is 99%.
  • In the tracked universe on 19–25 October 2026, a sector's story share ran from 99% in Marketplaces to 21% in Beauty, and was below 40% only in Beauty (21%), Grocery retail (33%) and Home and living (38%).
  • In the tracked universe on 19–25 October 2026, campaigns landed as one- or two-day waves: 76 of Herbal Essences' 82 Stories on 19–20 October, 59 of Dyson's 70 Stories on 23–24 October, 24 of Samsung's 39 reels on 23 October, and 92 contents for one Embeauty mascara on 23–24 October.
  • In the tracked universe on 19–25 October 2026, Instagram's paid-partnership label was 0% (rounded) for 31 of 38 brands and 8% at most, while ad disclosure (#reklam, #işbirliği, #tanıtım) ran from 0.0% at Biletix to 81.2% at CeraVe among the 18 brands with at least 40 posts and Reels.
  • In the tracked universe on 19–25 October 2026, deal and news accounts produced 81.5% of Migros's 427 contents, 77.4% of A101's 288 and 71.2% of CarrefourSA's 66.

Volumes are lower bounds: the universe is not all of Instagram, it widened on 24–26 October, Stories exist only from the day an account is tracked, and a brand mention is not a paid partnership.

  • Sectors11weekly reports, 19–25 October 2026
  • Contents60,139unique Stories, Reels and posts naming a brand, summed across ten reports (Fashion left out)
  • Without Marketplaces4,312contents in the other nine reports
  • Reels1,6611,610 analysed from the video itself

The 11 sectors at a glance

Contents, creators, brands, leader and format per weekly report, 19–25 October 2026.

SectorContentsCreatorsBrandsLeaderStory shareLeader's format (story · reels · post)
Beauty454372Embeauty, The Purest Solutions, CeraVe, CallielEmbeauty 17921%23% · 77% · 0%
Hair care214151Herbal Essences, Bioxcin, Pantene, Urban CareHerbal Essences 9274%89% · 11% · 0%
Consumer electronics193149Philips, Samsung, HuaweiPhilips 12167%90% · 8% · 2%
Fashion †4731Pierre Cardin, NetWorkPierre Cardin 30—23% · 30% · 47%
Home and kitchen261182Karaca, Tefal, EmsanKaraca 13456%41% · 51% · 8%
Home and living282181English Home, IKEA, Madame Coco, Bella MaisonEnglish Home 9138%35% · 56% · 9%
Marketplaces55,8275,950Trendyol, Hepsiburada, n11, Amazon TRTrendyol 37,15999%99% · 1% · 0%
Grocery retail781236Migros, A101, CarrefourSAMigros 42733%51% · 44% · 5%
Fashion retail899223Boyner, Zara, LC Waikiki, MangoBoyner 50484%95% · 2% · 3%
Event ticketing1,045365Bubilet, Biletinial, Biletix, PassoBubilet 67874%72% · 11% · 17%
Home electronics183143Dyson, Kiwi, GrundigDyson 13763%51% · 45% · 4%

Contents are the unique Stories, Reels and posts that name one of the brands a report covers: the three or four brands with the most creator content in the sector that week, not the whole sector. Creators are the distinct accounts in that report; an account active in two sectors is counted in each. The leader is the brand with the most contents.

† Fashion without Nivoshe: Pierre Cardin (30 contents, 25 accounts) and NetWork (17 contents, 12 accounts), 6 accounts shared between them: 31 distinct accounts. The published Fashion report also counts Nivoshe, whose content that week was oral care, not fashion; this page leaves Nivoshe out. The published story share is not shown: it counts Nivoshe, which is left out.

Sector by sector

One short paragraph per weekly report, with the link to the full report. Every figure is for the tracked universe, 19–25 October 2026.

  • Beauty

    Four beauty brands appeared in 454 contents from 372 accounts: Embeauty 179, The Purest Solutions 112, CeraVe 89 and Calliel 82. Reels lead: 91.0% of CeraVe's contents and 77.1% of Embeauty's are reels. CeraVe's content count rose from 31 in 12–18 October to 89, driven by reels for a new HA Water Gel (12 to 81). Embeauty's Velvet Volume mascara wave was 92 contents on 23–24 October. The most-played reel of the week, a CeraVe video, reached 4,894,602 plays.

    Weekly report: BeautyPDF

  • Hair care

    Four hair care brands appeared in 214 contents from 151 accounts: Herbal Essences 92, Bioxcin 70, Pantene 43 and Urban Care 12. Stories dominate: 89.1% of Herbal Essences' contents are Stories, and 76 of its 82 Stories came out on 19–20 October, one 25% discount sentence repeated in 63 of 73 analysed Story creatives. Urban Care is the reels-led brand (75.0%). Pantene's volume fell from 179 in 12–18 October to 43, with Stories dropping from 140 to 19.

    Weekly report: Hair carePDF

  • Consumer electronics

    Three consumer electronics brands appeared in 193 contents from 149 accounts: Philips 121, Samsung 55 and Huawei 19. Philips is story-led (90.1% Stories) and Samsung is reels-led (70.9% reels); 24 of Samsung's 39 reels were posted on 23 October, for the Galaxy Z Fold 8. All three brands were below their 12–18 October counts: Philips 149 to 121, Samsung 75 to 55, Huawei 32 to 19. Deal accounts supplied 44 of Philips' contents.

    Weekly report: Consumer electronicsPDF

  • Fashion

    The published report covers three brands. One of them, Nivoshe, had oral care content that week, not fashion, and this page leaves Nivoshe out of every conclusion and sum. The other two brands are post-led: posts are 46.7% of Pierre Cardin's contents and 76.5% of NetWork's. Both were visible through the outfit accounts of TV series (12 of Pierre Cardin's 23 non-story contents and 13 of NetWork's 16 are series-linked), and Pierre Cardin's series trailer was the most-played reel of the week with 3,501,232 plays.

    Weekly report: FashionPDF

  • Home and kitchen

    Three home and kitchen brands appeared in 261 contents from 182 accounts: Karaca 134, Tefal 77 and Emsan 60. Formats diverge: reels are 50.7% of Karaca's contents, Stories 67.5% of Tefal's and 76.7% of Emsan's. Deal accounts supplied 50 of Karaca's 134 contents. In Karaca's week, 8 pressure-cooker and Swiss Crystal recipe reels drew 3,939,071 plays together, and all of them carried #reklam in the caption.

    Weekly report: Home and kitchenPDF

  • Home and living

    Four home and living brands appeared in 282 contents from 181 accounts: English Home 91, IKEA 90, Madame Coco 72 and Bella Maison 38. IKEA is reels-led (82.2%); Madame Coco (70.8%) and Bella Maison (57.9%) are story-led. 28 of Madame Coco's 51 Stories came out on 20 October. Bella Maison's content count rose from 15 in 12–18 October to 38. Excluding deal and news accounts, 54 of English Home's 91 contents remain, against 78 of IKEA's 90.

    Weekly report: Home and livingPDF

  • Marketplaces

    Four marketplaces appeared in 55,827 contents from 5,950 accounts: Trendyol 37,159, Hepsiburada 16,297, n11 1,927 and Amazon TR 495. Almost all of it is Stories: the story share runs from 96.8% to 99.6% across the four, and reels number 278, 70, 5 and 16. Trendyol and Hepsiburada have 821 accounts in common. Deal and news accounts make up 57.0% of n11's contents and 7.3% of Trendyol's.

    Weekly report: MarketplacesPDF

  • Grocery retail

    Three grocery chains appeared in 781 contents from 236 accounts: Migros 427, A101 288 and CarrefourSA 66. Migros is story-led (50.8%); A101 is led by reels and posts (59.0% and 35.4%). Deal and news accounts produced 81.5% of Migros's contents, 77.4% of A101's and 71.2% of CarrefourSA's. A peanut butter that reached A101 shelves on 22 October was the subject of 19 reels from 18 accounts.

    Weekly report: Grocery retailPDF

  • Fashion retail

    Four fashion retailers appeared in 899 contents from 223 accounts: Boyner 504, Zara 179, LC Waikiki 160 and Mango 58. Boyner (95.0% Stories), Zara and Mango (all Stories) are story-led; only LC Waikiki is reels-led (59.4%). All 237 contents of Zara and Mango are shopping-link Stories. 43.5% of Boyner's 504 contents came from two accounts.

    Weekly report: Fashion retailPDF

  • Event ticketing

    Four ticketing platforms appeared in 1,045 contents from 365 accounts: Bubilet 678, Biletinial 213, Biletix 142 and Passo 97. Story share is 88.3% at Biletinial, 73.2% at Biletix and 71.8% at Bubilet; Passo is lowest (53.6%) and has the highest reels share (23.7%). The ticket link lives in the Story: 485 of Bubilet's 487 Story rows were link-matched to the platform. In 53 rows a caption names two or more platforms, so one reel can enter the count of three platforms.

    Weekly report: Event ticketingPDF

  • Home electronics

    Three home electronics brands appeared in 183 contents from 143 accounts: Dyson 137, Kiwi 26 and Grundig 20. Dyson is the only brand with a reels base (62 reels); 59 of its 70 Stories were posted on 23–24 October, from 47 accounts. Kiwi and Grundig are almost entirely Stories. Dyson's content count rose from 72 in 12–18 October to 137, but the report calls the Story comparison not like-for-like, because the tracked base widened.

    Weekly report: Home electronicsPDF

Format patterns: Stories, Reels and posts

How the sectors split between Stories, Reels and posts, and what that means for what can be counted.

Format follows the sector more than the brand. The story share is the share of a sector's brand assignments that are Stories, as each report's tile states it (a content naming two brands counts once for each). In the tracked universe on 19–25 October 2026 it ran from 21% in Beauty to 99% in Marketplaces:

SectorStory shareReels
Marketplaces99%331
Fashion retail84%104
Hair care74%48
Event ticketing74%83
Consumer electronics67%56
Home electronics63%63
Home and kitchen56%90
Home and living38%152
Grocery retail33%383
Beauty21%351

Fashion is not ranked: its published story share counts Nivoshe, which is left out. Of its other two brands, posts lead: 46.7% of Pierre Cardin's contents and 76.5% of NetWork's.

Looked at brand by brand, the same three formats split the 38 brands of the 11 reports like this (shares from each report's comparison table, rounded to whole percent):

FormatBrands, with their share of contents
Stories, 90% or moren11 100%, Zara 100%, Mango 100%, Grundig 100%, Trendyol 99%, Hepsiburada 99%, Amazon TR 97%, Kiwi 96%, Boyner 95%, Philips 90%
Reels, 70% or moreCeraVe 91%, IKEA 82%, Embeauty 77%, Calliel 77%, Urban Care 75%, Samsung 71%
Posts, 33% or moreNetWork 76%, Pierre Cardin 47%, A101 35%

Where the sales call sits

In the story-led sectors the reports find the call inside the Story itself. Event ticketing: 485 of Bubilet's 487 Story rows were link-matched to the platform. Grocery retail: 214 of Migros's 217 Stories were matched by link sticker. Home and kitchen: price, code or discount text appears in 22 of Karaca's 54 analysed Stories, 24 of Tefal's 41 and 23 of Emsan's 42. The Marketplaces report notes that Reels and posts are the only part of its volume that carries performance measurement.

Where the reach is measured

Plays exist only for Reels. Every one of the 11 reports names a most-played Reel of the week: from 1,055,838 plays (Dyson, Home electronics) to 4,894,602 (CeraVe, Beauty). In five of the reports the ranking leaves deal accounts out.

The co-author feature, a post published jointly with the brand's account, is used for 10% or more of contents by 5 brands: Passo 27.9%, Biletix 20.1%, LC Waikiki 18.1%, Pierre Cardin 13.3% and NetWork 11.8%. No other brand in the 11 reports reaches 10%.

Ad disclosure and Instagram's own label

Ad disclosure is the share of posts and Reels that carry #reklam, #işbirliği or #tanıtım. Stories are not part of it, so in a story-led sector it covers a small part of the contents: for Trendyol, 363 posts and Reels out of 37,159 contents. Among the 18 brands with at least 40 posts and Reels, the rate ran from 0.0% at Biletix to 81.2% at CeraVe. Instagram's own paid-partnership label is a separate field: it was 0% (rounded) for 31 of the 38 brands and 8% at most, at Urban Care.

Campaign waves in the nine-week series

When brands peaked between the week of 24 August and the report week, and the waves the reports name.

Each report prints the peak week of every brand in its nine-week series, which starts with the week of 24 August 2026. Counting the stated peaks of the 38 brands of the 11 reports (Nivoshe left out):

Week startingBrands at their peak
24 Aug4
31 Aug3
7 Sep2
14 Sep1
21 Sep1
28 Sep0
5 Oct5
12 Oct15
19 Oct7

27 of the 38 brands peaked in one of the three weeks that start in October, 15 of them in the week of 12 October, before the tracked universe widened. The 7 brands whose peak is the report week, 19–25 October, overlap the widening of 24–26 October; the reports caution that Story counts are not comparable across it, and that early weeks may look low because the number of tracked accounts grew.

Waves the reports name

  • Beauty, Embeauty: a Velvet Volume mascara wave of 92 contents on 23–24 October.
  • Beauty, CeraVe: reels for a new HA Water Gel rose from 12 to 81 between 12–18 and 19–25 October.
  • Hair care, Herbal Essences: 76 of its 82 Stories on 19–20 October.
  • Hair care, Bioxcin: 49 of its 58 Stories on 19 October, from one invitation.
  • Consumer electronics, Samsung: 24 of its 39 reels on 23 October, for the Galaxy Z Fold 8.
  • Home and kitchen, Karaca: 8 pressure-cooker and Swiss Crystal recipe reels with 3,939,071 plays together.
  • Home and living, Madame Coco: 28 of its 51 Stories on 20 October.
  • Grocery retail, A101: a peanut butter that reached shelves on 22 October, with 19 reels from 18 accounts.
  • Home electronics, Dyson: 59 of its 70 Stories on 23–24 October, from 47 accounts.

Week over week

For 36 brands the reports state a count for 12–18 October and for 19–25 October, counted with the same matching: 14 rose, 21 fell and 1 stayed level. The reports count contents or account-content rows, as the table below shows, and note that Story counts are affected by the widening of the tracked universe on 24–26 October.

Week-over-week counts and peak weeks by brand

12–18 October to 19–25 October, as the reports count them

SectorBrand12–18 Oct19–25 OctCounted as
BeautyEmbeauty87179contents
BeautyThe Purest Solutions338112contents
BeautyCeraVe3189contents
BeautyCalliel10782contents
Hair careHerbal Essences1492contents
Hair careBioxcin6070contents
Hair carePantene17943contents
Hair careUrban Care2512contents
Consumer electronicsPhilips149121contents
Consumer electronicsSamsung7555contents
Consumer electronicsHuawei3219contents
FashionPierre Cardin3030contents
FashionNetWork3317contents
Home and kitchenKaraca200136account-content rows
Home and kitchenTefal14777account-content rows
Home and kitchenEmsan8460account-content rows
Home and livingBella Maison1538account-content rows
Home and livingIKEA13490account-content rows
Home and livingMadame Coco8172account-content rows
MarketplacesTrendyol30,23737,162account-content rows
MarketplacesHepsiburada27,80016,305account-content rows
Marketplacesn111,6231,927account-content rows
MarketplacesAmazon TR563495account-content rows
Grocery retailMigros482428account-content rows
Grocery retailCarrefourSA8468account-content rows
Fashion retailBoyner382506account-content rows
Fashion retailZara126179account-content rows
Fashion retailMango5358account-content rows
Fashion retailLC Waikiki180160account-content rows
Event ticketingBubilet654687account-content rows
Event ticketingBiletinial192213account-content rows
Event ticketingPasso87104account-content rows
Event ticketingBiletix184149account-content rows
Home electronicsDyson72137contents
Home electronicsKiwi2926contents
Home electronicsGrundig2420contents

Peak week of every brand in the nine-week series

SectorBrandPeak weekPeak (account-content rows)Rows in 9 weeks
BeautyEmbeauty24 Aug3011,024
BeautyThe Purest Solutions12 Oct3381,131
BeautyCeraVe24 Aug93486
BeautyCalliel12 Oct107567
Hair careHerbal Essences19 Oct92233
Hair careBioxcin5 Oct113442
Hair carePantene12 Oct179435
Hair careUrban Care5 Oct158460
Consumer electronicsPhilips31 Aug1681,073
Consumer electronicsSamsung7 Sep157719
Consumer electronicsHuawei31 Aug109420
FashionPierre Cardin12 Oct30173
FashionNetWork12 Oct33133
Home and kitchenKaraca7 Sep3462,038
Home and kitchenTefal12 Oct147793
Home and kitchenEmsan12 Oct84335
Home and livingEnglish Home12 Oct103663
Home and livingIKEA12 Oct134897
Home and livingMadame Coco12 Oct81344
Home and livingBella Maison19 Oct38122
MarketplacesTrendyol14 Sep44,352284,851
MarketplacesHepsiburada12 Oct27,800163,328
Marketplacesn1131 Aug2,15114,220
MarketplacesAmazon TR5 Oct2,1897,534
Grocery retailMigros24 Aug4943,628
Grocery retailA1015 Oct3422,697
Grocery retailCarrefourSA12 Oct84466
Fashion retailBoyner24 Aug7775,122
Fashion retailZara19 Oct1791,023
Fashion retailLC Waikiki21 Sep2221,427
Fashion retailMango19 Oct58349
Event ticketingBubilet19 Oct6875,450
Event ticketingBiletinial5 Oct2301,471
Event ticketingBiletix12 Oct1841,312
Event ticketingPasso19 Oct104648
Home electronicsDyson19 Oct137815
Home electronicsKiwi12 Oct29169
Home electronicsGrundig12 Oct24122

Method and limitations

What the figures are, how they were added up, and what they do not say.

This page quotes and adds up figures printed in the 11 weekly sector reports, published on 30 October 2026 for 19–25 October 2026 (counters read on 29 October), and in their nine-week series from the week of 24 August. It adds no estimate, no market size and no new measure; where a figure is added up or compared, the text says how.

  • Scope. Every figure is for the tracked universe, the Turkish Instagram accounts Starlecta follows. It is not all of Instagram, so volumes are lower bounds.
  • The universe grew from about 12 thousand to about 51 thousand accounts on 24–26 October 2026. For the new accounts, posts and Reels were completed 90 days back; their Stories exist only from the day each account was added. Story counts are therefore not comparable across weeks that straddle the widening, and weekly trends show direction.
  • What a sector figure covers. Each report covers the three or four brands with the most creator content in its sector that week, not the whole sector. A content that names more than one brand is counted for each of them.
  • Sums. Totals across sectors add up the ten reports other than Fashion: 60,139 contents, 55,827 of them in Marketplaces and 4,312 in the other nine. A content that names brands of two sectors is counted in each report. The Home and kitchen report and the Marketplaces report give the same counters for their most-played reel of 24 October excluding deal accounts: 1,577,722 plays, 3,196 likes and 111 comments from a 15,108-follower account in Home and kitchen; 1,577,722 plays, 3,196 likes and 111 comments from a 15,108-follower account in Marketplaces. Identical counters point to one content counted in both reports. Account counts are therefore not added across reports.
  • Reels. Of the 1,661 Reels in the ten reports, 1,610 were analysed from the video itself (frames and audio).
  • Fashion. The published Fashion report counts Nivoshe, whose content that week was oral care, not fashion. Nivoshe is left out of every conclusion, sum and tally on this page, and Fashion is left out of the cross-sector sums.
  • Deal and news accounts, the accounts that share discounts or sector news, are counted in the volumes, flagged separately in the reports, and not read as collaborations.
  • A mention is not a paid partnership. A brand name, tag or link in a post, Reel or Story is a mention. Ad disclosure is the share of posts and Reels that carry #reklam, #işbirliği or #tanıtım; Instagram's paid-partnership label is a separate field.

Full method: Instagram brand tracking

Definitions as of 24 October 2026

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