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With Snap Accelerate, Snapchat pursues mobile startups that built Facebook’s ad biz

Snapchat’s program aims to win over mobile startups looking to acquire new users, the same type of advertiser that helped newly public Facebook overcome its ad problems.

Tim Peterson on October 4, 2017 at 4:10 pm
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A newly public company with mounting concerns over the viability of its advertising business, Snapchat in 2017 resembles Facebook in 2012. Now, to address the issue, Snapchat is taking a page from Facebook’s playbook.

Snapchat has rolled out a program to win over the same type of marketer that Facebook relied on to build up its mobile ad business: mobile app developers looking to acquire new users.

Called Snap Accelerate, the program will help mobile startups to advertise on Snapchat by offering them benefits including early access to new ad products as well as credits that can be used to buy ads. A Snapchat spokesperson said the company will not hold participating startups to its usual spending requirements, such as a commitment to spend a certain amount on Snapchat ads over a certain period of time.

Snap Accelerate is the latest example this year of Snapchat trying to lower the barrier to entry for advertisers and attain must-buy status. After rolling out an advertising API to enable brands to automate their Snap Ad buys through third-party ad-buying tools, the company introduced a self-serve tool for businesses to buy Snap Ads on their own and a self-serve tool for businesses to create the vertical video ads.

By catering to startups, Snapchat is effectively making a bet that its ads can help these companies grow their user bases and, therefore, their businesses. If successful, those companies will not only have more money to spend on advertising but will be more likely to spend that money on Snapchat’s ads. Additionally, case studies of their successes may lead other companies to advertise on Snapchat. After all, it worked for Facebook.

According to a page on Snapchat’s developer site, the program is aimed at commerce, entertainment and gaming startups that operate consumer-facing mobile apps and are interested in direct-response advertising. In other words, it is meant to attract the same types of companies that had flocked to Facebook’s mobile app-install ads in 2012 and 2013 to help that social network not only overcome concerns about its ad business but also conquer the mobile ad market.

All marketers who apply and are accepted into the Snap Accelerate program will be credited with money they can use to pay for ad creation and to buy ads on Snapchat. They will also receive early access to new ad products and tools, as well as Snap’s Marketing API. They will also be able to run a free branded filter around their company’s headquarters for a certain period of time. However, these benefits vary based on which of the program’s three tiers a company qualifies for.

The three tiers appear to correspond with a participating company’s size and stage of growth, varying from fledgling apps to startups that have hit a certain level of sustainability. Here is a breakdown of how the three tiers differ.

Kickstart

  • Company is given up to $20,000 worth of benefits, including credit to use for buying ads and paying for ad creation.
  • Free branded filter is available for three months.

Sprint

  • Company is given up to $50,000 worth of benefits, including credit to use for buying ads and paying for ad creation.
  • Free branded filter is available for six months.
  • Company is invited to Snap-hosted education events.
  • Company is given priority for business and technical support from Snap.

Scale

  • Company is given up to $100,000 worth of benefits, including credit to use for buying ads and paying for ad creation.
  • Free branded filter is available for 12 months.
  • Company is invited to Snap-hosted education events, as well as private networking events.
  • Company is given priority for business and technical support from Snap.

Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Marketing Land. Staff authors are listed here.



About The Author

Tim Peterson
Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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