Introducing the all new Ascend. Read the announcement

Growing Instagram accounts since 2016.

Ascend Viral is now Ascend, the #1 growth platform for brands and creators on Instagram. Same team, founded by Ethan Adams.

Trusted by 10,000+ creators and brands.

Ascend Viral is now simply Ascend.

Know Ascend Viral? You’re in the right place.

Ascend analyzes top viral videos in your niche and shows you what works best for your account. The hands-on growth service is still here too, now called the Growth Plan.

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Where it started.

  1. 2014

    Ethan Adams started running Instagram pages about fitness and health.

  2. 2016

    He wrote down what worked in a guide called Instagram Domination. That was the start of Ascend Viral.

  3. 2018

    Ascend Viral launched its growth assistants: real people who grow an account by hand.

    The team grew from the US to India, and then to North Africa.

  4. 2026

    Ascend launched, an AI that watches viral videos for you. Ascend Viral became Ascend.

Read the full history

The people behind it.

  • Ethan Adams

    Founder and CEO

  • Shivankar Gupta

    Chief Operating Officer

  • Nabil Aissa

    Chief Information Officer

  • Francesco Vagliante

    Chief Technology Officer

  • Caden Adams

    Chief Content Officer

  • Gabby Miravite

    Chief Happiness Officer

Plus the growth assistants, the support team, and JoJo, the office dog.

Why Ascend?

After years of growing accounts, one thing kept showing up.

The accounts that grow fastest study what’s already working in their niche.

That takes hours of scrolling. Ascend does it for you.

Ethan Adams, founder

What Ascend does today.

Ascend is the only AI that watches thousands of viral videos every day.

It analyzes the top videos in your niche, finds the accounts taking off, and shows you what works best for your account. Got a question? Ask millions of viral videos.

Want a real person to grow your account? That’s the Growth Plan.

See everything Ascend does
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Reel by @liljehu_, 2M views, posted . A comedy sketch about working at a tech startup where an employee admits to deleting the production database.

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Reel by @mvp.quis, 1M views, posted . A man running on a treadmill in a gym with on-screen text about his AirPods dying.

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Reel by @ellieinstem, 175K views, posted . An academic creator talking to the camera about mathematics and AI.

In the press.

Ethan was quoted in How Modern Leaders Build Brands People Trust, a Forbes contributor column by Brent Gleeson.

April 2025

Read on Forbes

Ethan wrote 3 Simple Things Businesses Need for Instagram Growth as an Entrepreneur contributor.

August 2021

Read on Entrepreneur

A writer on Medium reviewed Ascend Viral’s growth service in two posts.

February 2024

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Based in the USA, growing everywhere.

Ascend Viral LLC
30 N Gould St #33039
Sheridan, WY 82801
USA

Questions? Email support@ascendviral.com. On the Growth and Viral plans, you can also message your growth team from Messages in the app.

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