Polly's Instagram Reels, broken down

What this is

Polly has 592,394 followers on Instagram, read from the profile on 25 October 2026. Scrptly analysed the 5 best-performing Reels on the account. Every number below is the figure recorded at that moment, not an estimate, and every Reel links out so it can be checked.

5 Reels. 13,613,606 views between them. Posted between 27 Aug 2026 and 22 Sep 2025, running 16 to 83 seconds.

She introduced herself twice, one day apart

Polly bought a house at auction at 23 and films the renovation. Two Reels in this set open with almost the same sentence, posted a day apart in June 2025. Hey, I'm Polly, I'm 23 years old, and I've just bought my first house at auction did 2,624,471 views. The next day, my very first house did 1,039,350.

The difference between them is one word, very, and 22 seconds of runtime. The 49-second version did two and a half times the 71-second version. Same introduction, same claim, same week. On this account the shorter telling of the identical fact won by a wide margin.

Both are beaten by a Reel with no spoken hook at all: a before and after reveal from the renovation, 9,447,606 views. That is more than twice the two introductions combined, and it is the only piece in the set where the first frame is the result rather than the person.

The introduction hook is still doing something important, which the view counts alone hide. It states an age, a price mechanism and a stake in fourteen words. Twenty three, at auction, first house. Each of those is a reason to keep watching and none of them is about renovation.

The two recent Reels are the quietest and the most ordinary: a line spoken to someone called Paul, and a man standing next to conifers with a chainsaw. Both under 290,000. The account is strongest when the hook contains either the full reveal or the full premise, and weakest when it contains a moment from the middle of a working day.

The hooks on this account

What you can copy

• Say the identical thing shorter. One word and twenty two seconds separated two and a half million views here.
• Put the reveal in frame one when the reveal is the product. It beat both introductions combined by more than two to one.
• Load the introduction with facts rather than adjectives. Twenty three, auction, first house is three reasons to stay in fourteen words.

Questions people ask

How many followers does Polly have on Instagram?

592,394, read from the profile on 25 October 2026.

What is the most viewed Reel here?

The before and after renovation reveal, at 9,447,606 views, posted 22 September 2025. It has no spoken opening.

Did she post the same introduction twice?

Near enough. Two Reels a day apart open on the same sentence. The 49-second version did 2,624,471 views and the 71-second version did 1,039,350.

How long are these Reels?

Between 16 and 83 seconds, median 65.

How were these numbers measured?

Scrptly pulled the account's recent posts and analysed the 5 best-performing Reels. The follower count and every view count is the figure recorded on 25 October 2026. Figures are read once per reel, deduplicated so a reel analysed more than once is counted once, and each Reel links out.