Read my article to learn how to do shoutouts on Instagram to grow your Instagram account faster and get more active followers.
What is Instagram Shoutout is?
When you have at least 100 followers you can use Instagram shoutouts to grow your account faster.
An Instagram shoutout is a popular co-promotion when you post a screenshot of your shoutout partner's post to your account to create exposure for him and he does the same for you.
Actually this is how you promote each other. You create a post or IG Story which contains a photo or @ mention of your partner.
FREE SHOUTOUTS is called S4S (Shoutout for shoutout).
Create a picture you want to use for shoutout first. See my example below.

How to do Instagram Shoutouts
You can do free shoutouts and also you can buy Shoutouts from Instagram Influencers as well.
How to shoutout on instagram story?
You need to share a video or photo to your Instagram story first. Net you need to tap left screen of the screen or you can also swipe in your feed (anywhere).
Type @ followed immediately by their username, then select the person you'd like to mention. This is it.

Create a picture you want to use for shoutout first.
Usually we share shoutouts to Instagram story. Instagram story will last for 24 hours.

And you do the sames for your IG Shoutout partner.