Snapchat Viewability Score & New Max Reach Ad Campaigns

Snapchat Steps Up Its Advertising Game Again…

Viewability Score

Snapchat just announced it is offering advertisers a viewability score that’s designed to offer transparency into whether or not video advertisements on the platform warrant chargeable impressions. The viewability score will be validated by a third party firmed named Moat. It will become available to everyone on June 5th.

The official guidelines state that greater than 50% of an ad’s pixels and at least 2 seconds should be viewable by the users.

Snap Ads Max Reach

Snapchat also has been pitching advertisers on ways to reach everyone in the United States who views a Story on a given day. This new Snap Ads format is called “Max Reach”. It’s an ad-buying option that is the equivalent to a homepage takeover on a traditional website. Snapchat’s version guarantees that the Max Reach Snap Ad will be served to everyone in the United States who is shown an ad on a given day. So basically, every single person in the U.S. that uses Snapchat that day would see your advertisement.

The new Max Reach advertising offering is currently only available in the United States. With this addition, Snapchat now offers three different ‘takeover-style’ ad units that can be served nationwide: the Max Reach ad, a nationwide Sponsored Geofilter, and nationwide Sponsored Lenses.

Discover Partners & Audience Growth

Snapchat has also recently touted its ability to help publishers and large brands increase and accelerate their audience growth. Here’s some data they just released:

snapchat audience growth

This data shows publishers/brands that were also Snapchat Discover partners saw a large increase on other platforms as well.

Discover partners have reported fantastic results. Mashable’s CEO Pete Cashmore recently said: “Snapchat is our biggest revenue source on distributed platforms…It’s very profitable for us because it’s a huge audience and it’s an audience that we can’t reach elsewhere.”

The last part of that statement is HUGE – “…an audience that we can’t reach elsewhere.” That is the beauty of Snapchat that brands and advertisers need to better understand if they’re going to truly succeed on the platform.

Snapchat’s Loyal & Exclusive Users

new report released by App Annie, based on app usage in Q4 of 2016, found that 35% of Snapchat’s daily users in the United States don’t use Facebook on a given day. The report also said that 46% of Snapchat’s daily users aren’t on Instagram on a given day, and 58% can’t be reached by Facebook Messenger. Here are the statistics broken down:

snapchat audience exclusivity

The statistics are also similar in the United Kingdom, according to the report. We would have to assume that the data is similar in other countries as well.

What does all this mean? In this economy, time is money. Advertisers and marketers need to put their money where users spend their time, and Snapchat is the most important app for many, many people.

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Author

Brandon Doyle

CEO + Founder