Tag, Share, and Shine: How to get featured on ByWard Market’s socials

We’ve been seeing a lot of your tags lately, and wow - you’ve been creating some amazing content. It’s always exciting to see our community connect with us in this way. After all, the ByWard Market has always been about community, hasn’t it? 

It’s each and every one of you who brings it to life, and we want to honour that love by sharing your content on our page (some of it is just too good not to share). Sharing user-generated content is a fresh way to experience the District, as every photo, every reel, and every story has a unique and different perspective - combine everything, and you get a bigger story of what ByWard Market means  

Through your lens, and ours, we hope to inspire even more people to come experience the ByWard Market for themselves and to share their own perspective in turn.

To help make that happen, we’ve put together this quick guide to ensure your posts are “feature-ready.” Tagging works a little differently depending on the platform and doing it the right way ensures we can share your content.  

Let’s start with Instagram, our most popular platform. 

First things first: always tag @bywardmarket as a collaborator - that’s the magic input that gives us the option to share your content directly on our feed (instead of just resharing it as a story). A regular tag is nice, but a collaborator tag is what really makes it shine. 

Instagram Stories

When you share a Story on Instagram, type @bywardmarket directly in the sticker or text AND, PRO TIP – you can tag us in the on-screen text and then drag it off-screen so that it doesn’t mess with your *aesthetic*. Avoid using the geolocation tag, since we can’t repost those. Mentioning us directly ensures we see the content. 

Instagram Posts and Reels, and TikTok

You have two options: 

• Tag @bywardmarket in the content itself so it shows up in our tagged feed. 

• Or mention us @bywardmarket in your written caption. 

Facebook Posts

To tag us on Facebook is just the same as Instagram - tag us in your post or mention us in the caption. 

Remember, adding us as a collaborator when you post allows us to put your content side-by-side with ours more effectively!

On that note, keep the tags coming, keep the stories flowing, and keep infusing life into ByWard Market! 

Please note due to the volume of collaboration requests, we cannot accept them all but that doesn’t mean we are not welcoming them!