- Following 1.6K
- Followers 106K
- Engagement 5.6%
- Avg likes 6.3K
- Avg comments 154
About Merel Van Dongen
Merel Van Dongen (@merel23) is an Athlete creator on Instagram, also filed under Fitness & Health. The account has 105,977 followers and 1,132 published posts. Recent posts average 6,328 likes and 154 comments, an engagement rate of 5.6%.
An audience of 106K puts Merel Van Dongen in the mid-tier, between 100,000 and 1 million followers. Set against 1,641 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 65 followers per account Merel Van Dongen follows. Merel Van Dongen carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. Flinque files Merel Van Dongen under Athlete, with Fitness & Health as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Merel Van Dongen runs to 16 words across 2 lines. The bio mentions @beplayerbyyoufirst. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Merel Van Dongen dates from September 2025.
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1,132 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Merel Van Dongen, 5 are carousels, 4 are videos and 1 is a single image. No single format accounts for most of them. Merel Van Dongen has built a substantial archive of 1,132 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 94 followers for each post published. Merel Van Dongen also keeps 2 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 28 words each. The captions are written mainly in Dutch. Words that recur across them include nowaybackvips, back, vips, donderdag and vanaf. The captions tag #nowaybackvips, #survival, #overleven, #wildernis and #nowayback.
In het survivalprogramma No Way Back VIPS trekken Tommy van Lent, Bo Wilkes, Deborah Luijendijk, Arno Kantelberg, Jet de Nijs, Fenna Ramos, Stevan Kazàn, Manuel Broekman, Danique Hosmar, Merel van Dongen, Ammar Bozoglu, Kees Stevens, Thomas Cammaert en Jayh Jawson door de ruige wildernis van Albanië. Hun tocht leidt ze door de prachtige, maar ‘vervloekte’ bergen van het land. In de ongerepte natuur, met rondzwervende wilde beren en wolven, staan ze voor een lastige keuze: achterblijven in een survivalkamp of doorgaan naar de finish. Wie durft er door het koude water naar de overkant te gaan? Elke donderdag vanaf 21.30 uur te zien.
#NoWayBackVIPS zie je vanaf donderdag 8 januari om 20.30 op SBS6.
FC Twente neemt het op tegen een bekende club voor! 🤩
#SparkTheGame #EurojackpotVrouwenEredivisie
¡Nos las arreglamos juntas! 🔥
Merel Van Dongen's engagement
Merel Van Dongen's engagement rate on Instagram is 5.6%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 18 followers. An average post collects 6,328 likes and 154 comments, close to 41 likes for each comment.
Engagement rate
5.6%
- Avg likes
- 6.3K
- Avg comments
- 154
- Interactions : followers
- 1 : 18
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Who is Merel Van Dongen?
Merel Van Dongen (@merel23) is an Athlete creator on Instagram, also filed under Fitness & Health. Merel Van Dongen carries Instagram's verified badge and uses an Instagram professional account. The Instagram bio for Merel Van Dongen runs to 16 words across 2 lines.
How many followers does Merel Van Dongen have?
Merel Van Dongen has 105,977 followers on Instagram (106K). Set against 1,641 accounts followed, the audience works out to about 65 followers per account Merel Van Dongen follows. Merel Van Dongen has built a substantial archive of 1,132 posts.
What is Merel Van Dongen's engagement rate?
Merel Van Dongen's engagement rate on Instagram is 5.6%, between 3% and 6%, or 3 to 6 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 18 followers. An average post collects 6,328 likes and 154 comments, close to 41 likes for each comment.
What does Merel Van Dongen post about on Instagram?
Flinque files Merel Van Dongen under Athlete, with Fitness & Health as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for Merel Van Dongen, 5 are carousels, 4 are videos and 1 is a single image. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for Merel Van Dongen repeatedly use the words nowaybackvips, back, vips, donderdag and vanaf. Merel Van Dongen's captions carry hashtags such as #nowaybackvips, #survival and #overleven. Merel Van Dongen writes those captions mainly in Dutch. Merel Van Dongen keeps 2 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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