Video Music Awards engagement report
@vmas - 1.6M followers on X
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026.
Engagement
A typical post picks up 1.3K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.083%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% of 983 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 41K times each, and 3.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.53 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 31K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #vma, #vmas.
Measured over 16 original posts from a 30-day window, last computed on August 21, 2026. Recurring tags: #vma, #vmas.
Compared with accounts its own size
Video Music Awards's engagement rate beats 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (983 accounts, accounts of similar size (decile 7 of 10)). A percentile is spread evenly by construction, so 50 really is the middle of that group and 90 really is its top tenth.
On engagement per impression rather than per follower it beats 86% of the same group. When those two numbers disagree, the gap is about how far its posts travel rather than how people react to them.
Where this sits in the catalog
At 0.083%, Video Music Awards sits above the 50th percentile of the 9,668 accounts in this comparison. That places it in the above the median band, which runs 0.046% to 0.318%.
Show the percentile table
| Percentile | Engagement rate |
|---|---|
| 10th percentile | 0.001% |
| 25th percentile | 0.006% |
| 50th percentile | 0.046% |
| 75th percentile | 0.318% |
| 90th percentile | 2.67% |
| 99th percentile | 366.2% |
This ruler is the whole measured catalog, not a size-matched group: it shows where the raw rate falls across every account we can measure, all of which are large. For a like-for-like comparison, read the size-band percentile above instead. See how the bands are built
Posting timing
This account posts most often around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day of the week. The bars below are the catalog-wide pattern, with this account's own busiest slot marked. They do not show how this account performs at each hour: we keep one aggregate per account, not one per hour, so that measurement does not exist in our data.
Show engagement by hour posted, utc as a table
| Hour (UTC) | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | 0% | 14K |
| 01:00 UTC | +3% | 15K |
| 02:00 UTC | -1% | 14K |
| 03:00 UTC | -2% | 15K |
| 04:00 UTC | -5% | 12K |
| 05:00 UTC | -4% | 12K |
| 06:00 UTC | -7% | 13K |
| 07:00 UTC | -6% | 14K |
| 08:00 UTC | -7% | 16K |
| 09:00 UTC | -2% | 19K |
| 10:00 UTC | -2% | 20K |
| 11:00 UTC | -2% | 22K |
| 12:00 UTC | -1% | 24K |
| 13:00 UTC | +1% | 27K |
| 14:00 UTC | -2% | 28K |
| 15:00 UTC | -1% | 30K |
| 16:00 UTC | -1% | 29K |
| 17:00 UTC | -1% | 28K |
| 18:00 UTC | +1% | 25K |
| 19:00 UTC | 0% | 23K |
| 20:00 UTC | 0% | 21K |
| 21:00 UTC | +1% | 19K |
| 22:00 UTC | +1% | 16K |
| 23:00 UTC | +1% | 15K |
Show engagement by day of week as a table
| Day | Vs author median | Posts |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday | +9% | 56K |
| Monday | +8% | 72K |
| Tuesday | +1% | 93K |
| Wednesday | -4% | 77K |
| Thursday | -3% | 70K |
| Friday | -6% | 71K |
| Saturday | +2% | 62K |
Formats this account uses
Its own posting mix on the left, and what each of those formats does across every account we track on the right. Only formats where the effect clears our publish test appear here, so an empty row is a format we could not measure rather than one that does nothing.
| Format | This account | Catalog effect | 95% interval | Accounts behind it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image or video | 94% of posts | +79% | +73% to +84% | 5.7K |
| Outbound link | 81% of posts | -49% | -50% to -47% | 6.0K |
| Typical length | - | +12% | +10% to +15% | 6.3K |
- 94% of this account's sampled posts carry an image or video. Across the catalog, posts with an image or video run 79% above the same accounts' other posts.
- 81% of its posts carry a link off X. Across the catalog, posts with an outbound link run 49% below the same accounts' other posts, so a large share of this account's output sits in the weakest bucket we measure.
- Its average post runs 341 characters, which falls in the over 280 characters band. Across the catalog, posts over 280 characters run 12% above the same accounts' other posts.
These are catalog-wide differences applied to this account's own posting mix, not a measurement of how each format performs for this account specifically. We keep one median per account, not one per format per account, so the second thing is not something this data can tell you.
Best tweets
- Sep 8, 202524x their median
A moment 🥹 Thank you @MTV @vmas #Ari #Lambily 🦋♥️ https://t.co/E26t0QpQ4h
- Sep 8, 202523x their median
pat yourself on the back, EYEKONS!! 🥹 THANK YOU!! 🖤 #VMAs https://t.co/ajb72otq8B
- Sep 8, 202523x their median
our first time at the @vmas was unforgettable, WE WON A VMA!! thank you EYEKONS, for voting for us for PUSH performance of the year and for always having our backs. we truly would not be here if it weren’t for you. we love you!! 🖤#VMAS #KATSEYE https://t.co/7h3nUqu4hQ
- Sep 8, 202517x their median
#VMA Best K-Pop Winner has a nice ring to it 💫 Congrats, #LISA @wearelloud, @DojaCat and @raye! https://t.co/1vxmv7mZLI
- Sep 8, 202514x their median
Mama, I'm coming home. Fly high Ozzy. @Aerosmith @OzzyOsbourne Special thanks to #vmas, Adam Wakeman, Nuno Bettencourt, Adam Warrington. https://t.co/mTcd7yCfeS
- Sep 9, 20254.9x their median
behind the curtain … ⛓️⛓️⛓️ @vmas https://t.co/8kjdZH6mxo
- Aug 14, 20264.7x their median
I know you've been waiting for this question: Who should be nominated for Artist of the Year at the 2026 #VMAs? 🛸💙✨
- Aug 20, 20264.5x their median
These Best Latin #VMA nominees are turning up the heat 💃 ⭐️ @Anitta with @shakira: Choka Choka ⭐️ @sanbenito: NUEVAYoL ⭐️ @FuerzaRegidafr: TU SANCHO ⭐️ @karolg: Papasito ⭐️ Rosalía ft. @Yahritza_YSE: La Perla ⭐️ @ryancastrro, Kapo & GANGSTA : LA VILLA ⭐️ @shakira & @burnaboy: Dai Dai Head to https://t.co/h5OCeBcqrk now and make your VMA picks, then tune in September 27th on @CBS and @paramountplus to see who wins 🤞💙🛸
- Sep 8, 20254.4x their median
Imagine thinking I've done anything for the past 24 hours but rewatching ROSÉ's #VMA Song of the Year acceptance speech! 🎶🔁🏆 https://t.co/9YefGVZNpr
- Sep 7, 20253.2x their median
THREAD: All of the 2025 #VMA winners 🚀🌟🏆
Ranked by total interactions across everything we have tracked for this account, which is a longer history than the 30-day window the rates above use. The multiple compares each post to this account's own median.
Recurring topics
The most frequent hashtags in the sampled posts. They describe what this account writes about; they are not a performance signal, and the catalog-wide breakdown on the hub shows how little hashtag count moves.
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Reading these numbers
A typical post picks up 1.3K interactions against 1.6M followers, an engagement rate of 0.083%. Measured over 16 original posts, its engagement rate beats 75% of 983 tracked accounts of a similar size, which puts it in the middle of its size range rather than at either end. Posts are seen about 41K times each, and 3.19% of those impressions turn into an interaction. That is about 2.60% of the follower count, which is the gap between an audience on paper and an audience in a timeline. Posting runs at about 0.53 post a day over the last 30 days, though only 20% of days saw any activity at all. Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is the busiest day of the week. Of the 16 posts sampled, 94% carry an image or video and 81% link out. The account's strongest tracked post pulled 31K interactions, about 24x its own typical post. Recurring topics include #vma, #vmas.
- What is Video Music Awards's engagement rate on X?
- Video Music Awards (@vmas) has an engagement rate of 0.083%, based on the median interactions across 16 original posts from the last 30 days against 1,584,970 followers. Replies, reposts and quote-posts of other people are excluded from that sample.
- Is that a good engagement rate?
- At 0.083%, Video Music Awards sits above the 50th percentile of the 9,668 accounts in this comparison. Those comparison accounts are all large ones, because our scanning cadence is weighted towards big accounts, so this is a ranking among peers of similar scale rather than a ranking across X.
- Does @vmas have real engagement?
- Its engagement rate beats 75% of the tracked X accounts closest to it in follower count (983 accounts), which puts it in the middle of its size range group. Ranking inside a size band matters because engagement rate falls as accounts grow, so a raw rate would mostly re-measure the follower count. It is a starting point for a look at follower quality, not a verdict on it.
- When does @vmas post?
- Most posts go out around 15:00 UTC, and Friday is its busiest day, at roughly 0.53 posts per day across the measured window.