Syed Mamoon Hasan

Category: Snapchat

  • Snapchat Ads in India – The Complete Guide

    Snapchat Ads in India – The Complete Guide

    World’s youngest social network, Snapchat has opened itself to Indian brands to advertise on it. In this post, I tell you all about Snapchat ads in India and help you determine if you should start advertising on Snapchat if you are an Indian brand.

    Why advertise on Snapchat? Because it still commands a lot of attention.

    1. An average Snapchatter spends about 25-30 mins using the app daily.
    2. More importantly, 60% of them are creating new stories rather than consuming their friends’ stories, the content creation on Facebook is dropped while consumption has gone down.
    3. An average Snapchatter opens the app more than 18 times a day.

    Those are impressive figures after Instagram copied them and delivered a punch to the gut.

    Snapchat Indian Stats

    1. Total advertisable audience size in India is 7,050,000. The United States is at 92M.
    2. 2,475,000 males and 2,025,000 females. Snapchat couldn’t determine gender for the rest.
    3. One in every 4th user on Snapchat is on iOS.
    4. 94% of users are between 13-34.
    5. The 18-20 age category is the most populated with 1.75M people.
    6. The audience is highly urban and has high disposable income.

    The population of Snapchat users in the Indian States.

    Only state level targeting is available for now, city and pin code targeting would be available in India soon.

    Note – Treat the below data as relative because as the number of Snapchat users grow these numbers would change over time.

    Location Audience Size
    MAHARASHTRA 1,325,000
    DELHI 1,200,000
    CHANDIGARH 625,000
    GUJARAT 550,000
    KARNATAKA 425,000
    TAMIL NADU 225,000
    MADHYA PRADESH 200,000
    UTTAR PRADESH 175,000
    RAJASTHAN 150,000
    PUNJAB 100,000
    ASSAM 75,000
    HARYANA 75,000
    BIHAR 50,000
    KERALA 50,000
    ANDHRA PRADESH 25,000
    CHHATTISGARH 25,000
    JAMMU AND KASHMIR 25,000
    JHARKHAND 25,000
    PUDUCHERRY 25,000
    TELANGANA 25,000
    ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS < 1,000
    ARUNACHAL PRADESH < 1,000
    DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI < 1,000
    DAMAN AND DIU < 1,000
    GOA < 1,000
    HIMACHAL PRADESH < 1,000
    LAKSHADWEEP < 1,000
    MANIPUR < 1,000
    MEGHALAYA < 1,000
    MIZORAM < 1,000
    NAGALAND < 1,000
    ODISHA < 1,000
    SIKKIM < 1,000
    TRIPURA < 1,000
    UTTARAKHAND < 1,000
    WEST BENGAL < 1,000

    What are the advertising options on Snapchat?

    Snapchat has the following three advertising options. Out of these three Lenses and Filters are not yet available in India, only Snap ads are available. Snap ads are not yet out on a self-serve model in India so you have to contact a Snapchat Agency agency like A&B to run the ads.

    Snapchat Ad Options in India

    Ad Objectives available in India

    Snap ads options

    How are Snapchat ads different from Facebook or Insta ads?

    1. Two-thirds of all Snap ads play with audio on
    2. Truly vertical video format optimised only for the phone
    3. 5x swipe up rate vs average CTR on comparable platforms
    4. Audio on by default, this is a big upside against Facebook where most ads have audio off.
    5. 100% native, no browser, preloaded mobile websites, instantaneous use leading to an 80% lift in on-site time
    6. App Install ads actually install the app in the background without leaving Snapchat

     

    Targeting Options available in India

    1. Age targeting

    13-17

    18-20

    21-24

    25-34

    35+

    1. Languages – Major languages of the world, Hindi is not available
    2. Custom Audiences – upload the email IDs of people you want to target
    3. OS – Android, iOS
    4. Device make – The exact phone you want to target
    5. Gender – Male, Female or both
    6. Interests – Similar to Facebook but my belief is it would not be too accurate. How would Snapchat know if I am interested in entrepreneurship if that sort of content is not consumed by me on Snapchat?

    Final Word:

    If your product/service appeals to the urban 13-34-year-old then you must, otherwise, you can wait, for now. Examples-

    1. Dating apps, online grocery, electronics, education products, gaming products should totally do it.
    2. Real estate, Investment companies, pension funds, golf courses maybe should wait.

    You get the point, Urban, young – Hell yes!; everyone else – Not so much.

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  • What is Snap Map and how can brands use it?

    What is Snap Map and how can brands use it?

    If you are a marketer and you want to know about Snap Map you are in one of the two mental states.

    1. Frustrated – Because your CMO has asked you to find out about Snap Map which s/he thinks is big in the 18-35 audience.
    2. Curious – You want to completely understand Snap Map so that you can use it to do amazing marketing campaigns at almost zero cost.

    If you are in the first mental state, you can see the official Snap Map video below and go ahead and close this tab

     

    Otherwise, read on,

    Brands can get a few hundred thousand micro video/photo views on Snap Map without spending a dollar. I got about 40,000 Snap Story views for a client in one day in Mumbai. Right now it is nascent and those numbers are easily achievable. By October 2017,there would be 15000 businesses in your area wanting a piece of consumers attention, and those number of views will drop.

    How can your brand use it? Use the step by step guide below.

    Step 1: – Know whether your audience is on Snapchat?

    If your audience is between 18-35 and your product is not heavily B2B like SAAS software, they are pretty much on it. You personally KNOW people who share every single moment on Snapchat. If your argument is that all of them have shifted on Instagram, why not try it, see data and then decide.

    Imagine if your business is a theme park. Everyone in the whole town can see what’s happening in your park right now. Plus you are not even doing it, the customers are doing the work for you.

    Step 2: – What do you show? Which story to put up?

    Like you do everywhere else, wait a second before flashing that up to 50% off in the users face when they tap on your story. Break your image for a second, show a human element of the company. Show how consumers are feeling great where they are. Show how employees are having fun.

    Step 3: – Okay, how to do this step by step?

    As you see in the video, users pinch on the screen and find out two things.

    A. Where their friends are?

    Remind people to open their Snapchat, that’s it. Just do a follow us on Snapchat standee in your store. This will prompt people to open the app, thereby updating their location in Snapchat, prompting their friends to come and join them in your store. And you know what happens when walk-ins increase 🙂

    B. What places/geolocations are hot in their area.

    If you have an event going on in your store, it might be a great idea to get some eyeballs on Snapchat.

    Just take a few really cool Snap Stories, usually, 5-6 individuals with 5 stories each are enough to make a place red hot and getting everyone in your city to become curious as to what is happening there (This depends on competition though). Don’t know how to do that, read on.

    1. Snap something
    2. Hit story
    3. Tap on our story
    4. Repeat step one with a more interesting snap
    5. After about 20 mins you would start seeing results so don’t go rogue and upload 200 snaps of your feet. Wait!
    6. Once your business location is red, it would stay that way for about 24 hours but my gut is that Snapchat might change this anytime based on user activity in the area.
    7. Wait for data to flow in.
    8. Tell me how did it go for you in the comments section below. I would love to see more data on this.

    Your location would look something like:-

    Snap Map red Spot
    Snap Map Red Spot

    Using the above steps I did the same for a retail client and got about 40,000 views in 24 hours in Mumbai. You can get higher or lower views based on the city you live in Snapchat user base and other options.

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