What Happened to Fuelgram?
Introduction
Remember the good old days when boosting your Instagram posts was as easy as a stroll in the park? All you’d have to do was head over to Fuelgram and join an “AutoRounds” slot, “FuelGroup” or buy some “PowerLikes” for a pretty reasonable price. They were by far the leading competitor for black hat Instagram engagement services.
Fuelgram FuelGroups Slots: You’d have to meet certain requirements to join the FuelGroups. After logging in with your username & password your account would give and receive engagement from the groups. It was also possible to use one account to give engagement so another account can receive. This become a popular way for resellers to provide a genuinely decent Instagram Engagement boosting service for clients that couldn’t join the groups or didn’t want to give up their account details.
These groups where great in the early stages and actually helped to lay the foundations of genuine high quality Instagram Powerlikes & targeted Instagram engagement services that can still be found today.
What happened to Fuelgram?
Fuelgram, the once-mighty platform that in it’s best days would effectively trick the Instagram algorithm and boost your posts to a larger audience, is no more. They shut down in 2020 after being sued by Instagram. As it turns out, the name "Fuelgram" was a bit too on-the-nose. Fuelgram was the source for almost every Instagram likes & engagement reseller and the scale of their customer basis was beyond comprehension. Instagram didn’t have many ways of detecting the use of these services at the time so the best way to solve the issue was to file a lawsuit against Fuelgram.
Interestingly enough, their best services - “FuelGroups” and “PowerLikes” - were not so much of an issue because they were effectively just networks of real users & influencers sharing engagement. The real issue was the “AutoRounds” service, which anyone could join. AutoRounds was their most basic service that would systematically dish out likes onto your most recent post every few hours. Most people would create fake pages to plug into the AutoRounds slots, allowing a real page to receive the likes for a very low price. With all of this bot engagement spreading around Instagram, it was only a matter of time Fuelgram got shut down.
Fuelgram AutoRound Slots: Any page could join these slots so it didn’t take long for them to be filled up with bots. This was a cheap and low quality service which the vast majority of Fuelgram customers were using. The AutoRound services were one of the main reasons for Fuelgrams demise as they abused Instagram’s community guidelines much more than the other services.
Are there any alternatives to Fuelgram in 2024?
Fortunately, all hope is not lost for those that need a little extra love on their Instagram posts. But keep in mind, there are a lot of bad services out there that can harm your account. In fact, most services are a complete scam and will deliver instant drop bot likes to your page that will most likely get you shadow-banned. The worst part is that all of this fake engagement comes from the same place, SMM Panels. Many websites claim high quality services, charge you a premium price but then buy straight from these panels.
However, if you know where to look, there are still some really good country targeted Instagram likes and engagement services that play by the rules and are even better than Fuelgram’s “FuelGroups” and “PowerLikes”. The significance of these services is that the engagement will come from private Instagram pods, groups and networks that are populated by real users & influencers. It’s not much different to a big group of friends liking each others posts!
The best part is, as the customer, you don’t need to give engagement to these groups. A good provider will use one of their own high quality pages to give engagement on your behalf. You’re simply paying to not have to give to the network and only receive. Pretty neat right?
Fuelgram PowerLikes Services: This was simply a way for users to buy engagement from the Fuelgroups but without needing the requirements to join the groups or give any engagement back to the groups. In its best days this would actually help users to beat the Instagram algorithm and go viral on occasion! (I personally had a few golden moments with Fuelgrams FuelGroups and Powerlikes)
Do Instagram Powerlikes still help with the algorithm?
Not as much as it used to. It comes as no surprise that Instagram wised up and changed their algorithm. The best services will take everything into consideration to maximize your chances of getting more reach, such as: including saves, shares & profile visits with the service; ensuring the service starts immediatly after you post; drip feed delivery so it doesn’t all come at once; highly monitoring the networks to kick out bad accounts; hand written comments only, etc. But even with the best post engagement services, there is no guarantee that it will ‘beat the algorithm’.
The purpose of these networks is to improve your ‘social proof’, which is our way of saying ‘fake it till you make it’ whilst sounding smart at the sound time. But in all seriousness, appearances do matter on Instagram and can subsequently help with organic growth. We understand why people want these services, so at USA PowerLikes we simply focus on providing a safe, high quality and effective USA based Instagram engagement service. Unlike most other companies, we are transparent about how it works and what you should realistically expect from it.
To Sum Up
> Cool story: we actually met the Fuelgram team in Lisbon, Portugal after they shut down to discuss ‘business’. Nothing came from it but we had a nice lunch together. Nice guys! Hopefully they didn’t get hit too hard by Instagram.
> If you need safe social proof services to make your page look better until you’re famous, you’re in the right place! Contact us via live chat or email us [email protected]. We’ll give you a free consultation and a demo before you get started.
> If you’re just looking for a fail-safe and scalable way of growing organically on Instagram, don’t buy Powerlikes, hire an Instagram manager instead.
