Each time you browse through your timeline and come across a content creator who has seemingly risen from nowhere, accumulating millions of views, thousands of comments, and more followers all the time, you are likely to assume that the person is just plain lucky. Perhaps they just made a viral video.
The truth is more interesting than that
The tools which the top Social Media Creators and Marketers use to power their content and grow their followers. In this article I explain the cold start problem faced by new social media accounts, and show you the ‘hidden tools’ used by most of the top creators and digital marketers in order to gain millions of views and thousands of comments on their videos and posts on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook.
What Is the Cold Start Problem?
- This is because social media algorithms do not promote accounts that are new but rather what is already proven successful. An account with 50,000 subscribers will have its content promoted further while an account with 50 subscribers will receive almost nothing regardless of the quality of the content.
- The algorithm requires engagement in order for distribution of the content to take place, which means reach, which in turn, can be achieved by means of the algorithm itself. This is the cycle in which most creators become stuck right from the start.
The Tools Breaking the Loop
These social media marketing panels or as they are more commonly referred to are SMM panels. The growth services that are offered by these SMM panels can include services like Followers, Views, Likes, Watch Time and many more for various social media platforms such as YouTube video makers and channels, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and even Spotify growth services. SMM panels have been around for many years and have been used by many social media marketers. There are even SMM resellers that resell the services of these SMM panels. You can find many SMM panels that offer these services all over the world.
How SMM Panels Work
- You fund an account.
- You pick the services you wish to use.
- You place an order.
- The panel starts delivering your signals gradually over a span of hours or days.
- The algorithm then starts to interpret those signals as organic engagement.
- It starts distributing your content to reach more users.
- Gradually, more real users start viewing your content and start following you.
There are however a huge amount of really low grade ‘black hat’ SMM panels that exist on the internet that are generally bad for your accounts. These types of SMM panels give huge amounts of followers or likes very quickly for one account. A lot of these types of methods are obvious and use a lot of bad quality methods of bots. Even the odd bot account here and there will stand out in the eyes of the algorithms on the social media platforms and generally cause more harm than good in the long run.
Who Is Actually Using These Tools
- And finally, for the small-scale YouTube creators (or even just new YouTube newbies) out there who have yet to reach the 1,000 subscribers mark (or 4 minutes of watched time per month) to activate their YouTube monetization options, these type of services can help you reach your goal(s) very quickly.
- A music artist might use the initial increase in views and likes to their release to get it on relevant playlists on Spotify and YouTube.
- Small businesses use social media to get sales and social proof for their pages in order to get them to work.
- Digital marketing agencies use these kind of tools and services in order to deliver on their measurable growth targets to their clients in the most efficient manner possible, and then go work on other accounts.
ShakerGainsKE — One Panel Worth Knowing
Not all SMM panels are created equal. The strongest ones cover multiple platforms — YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter/X, and Spotify — deliver orders gradually rather than all at once, never ask for account passwords, and back their services with a refill guarantee to protect against drop-off after delivery.
For creators and businesses in Kenya and across Africa specifically, ShakerGainsKE addresses a barrier most international SMM panels don’t: payment access. Rather than requiring an international credit or debit card, it supports local mobile money options including M-Pesa, Airtel Money, and MTN MoMo, alongside standard international payment methods. More details on Instagram growth services for Kenya are available at shakergainske.com.
The platform also offers a full reseller API, letting agencies and entrepreneurs build and sell their own social media marketing service on top of it.
The Bigger Picture
SMM panels are not a means to bypass all the hard work of making great quality content. The primary function of SMM panels is to assist you with solving problems your social media account(s) are facing and to help the algorithm(s) to recommend your content(s) to others, before it starts to gain traction on its own and keeps on growing naturally, to reach even greater heights of success than what a channel from scratch could have possibly achieved.
Rather, those individuals who know how to use followers growth tools to increase their followers, are playing the game at hand as per the current rules of the social media platforms to succeed.
