Snap Inc. (SNAP - Free Report) has been under pressure since the time it went public earlier this year. The company’s stock price has declined since then.
Snap suffered a major blow when Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter of its public offering, downgraded the stock in July stating “we have been wrong about Snap's ability to innovate and improve its ad product this year.” The investment bank was worried about the company’s lackluster advertising products amid growing competition from Facebook’s Instagram.
In March 2017, eMarketer trimmed its forecast for Snapchat’s 2017 advertising revenues by $30 million to $770 million.
In contrast, the firm expects U.S. digital advertising market to grow 16% year over year to reach $83 billion in 2017. Digital video advertising is also anticipated to witness annual double-digit growth through 2020.
Efforts to Monetize the Platform
Advertising is the primary source of revenues for Snap. The company’s goal has been “to put the power of our ad product into the hands of every advertiser, regardless of their size.”
In a bid to attract advertisers, Snap added three ad products in the month of May, namely Sponsor World Lenses, Audience Lenses and Smart Geo filters. The same month Digiday reported that Snap is offering discounts to lure advertisers. The company’s Snap to Store tool, launched in April, also helps advertisers track whether their ad campaigns are managing to attract users.
For buying video ads, Snap introduced the self serve Ad Manager in June. The company launched two more advertising tools called Snapchat Mobile Dashboard and Business Manager. Further, in order to woo advertisers, the company acquired Placed (in June), a startup specializing in measuring success of digital ad campaigns.
Earlier in July, Snap rolled out a tool namely Snap Publisher to help advertisers create their own ads.
Recently, the company announced the addition of 14 new Creative Partners “to provide advertisers hands-on support to plan, executive and optimize Snap Ads campaigns.” The company’s Snapchat Creative Partner program was launched in June.
Stiff competition from the likes of Alphabet (GOOGL - Free Report) , Microsoft’s LinkedIn and Facebook as well as smaller rivals like Twitter in the digital ad market remains an area of major concern.
Further, user growth holds the key to attracting advertisers as they prefer established platforms. Thus, a slowdown in user growth rate may look unattractive to advertisers. Moreover, the company’s lack of popularity in the international quarters and its focus only on under-30 users also remain a concern. However, Snapchat is aggressively ramping up its original content efforts in a bid to attract new subscribers.
Snap, therefore, needs to pull up its socks to reap in the benefits of growing social media advertising, which is anticipated to outperform newspaper advertising by 2020 per advertising agency Zenith Optimedia.
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Snap Inc. (SNAP - Free Report) has been under pressure since the time it went public earlier this year. The company’s stock price has declined since then.
Snap suffered a major blow when Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter of its public offering, downgraded the stock in July stating “we have been wrong about Snap's ability to innovate and improve its ad product this year.” The investment bank was worried about the company’s lackluster advertising products amid growing competition from Facebook’s Instagram.
In March 2017, eMarketer trimmed its forecast for Snapchat’s 2017 advertising revenues by $30 million to $770 million.
In contrast, the firm expects U.S. digital advertising market to grow 16% year over year to reach $83 billion in 2017. Digital video advertising is also anticipated to witness annual double-digit growth through 2020.
Efforts to Monetize the Platform
Advertising is the primary source of revenues for Snap. The company’s goal has been “to put the power of our ad product into the hands of every advertiser, regardless of their size.”
In a bid to attract advertisers, Snap added three ad products in the month of May, namely Sponsor World Lenses, Audience Lenses and Smart Geo filters. The same month Digiday reported that Snap is offering discounts to lure advertisers. The company’s Snap to Store tool, launched in April, also helps advertisers track whether their ad campaigns are managing to attract users.
For buying video ads, Snap introduced the self serve Ad Manager in June. The company launched two more advertising tools called Snapchat Mobile Dashboard and Business Manager. Further, in order to woo advertisers, the company acquired Placed (in June), a startup specializing in measuring success of digital ad campaigns.
Earlier in July, Snap rolled out a tool namely Snap Publisher to help advertisers create their own ads.
Recently, the company announced the addition of 14 new Creative Partners “to provide advertisers hands-on support to plan, executive and optimize Snap Ads campaigns.” The company’s Snapchat Creative Partner program was launched in June.
Stiff competition from the likes of Alphabet (GOOGL - Free Report) , Microsoft’s LinkedIn and Facebook as well as smaller rivals like Twitter in the digital ad market remains an area of major concern.
Further, user growth holds the key to attracting advertisers as they prefer established platforms. Thus, a slowdown in user growth rate may look unattractive to advertisers. Moreover, the company’s lack of popularity in the international quarters and its focus only on under-30 users also remain a concern. However, Snapchat is aggressively ramping up its original content efforts in a bid to attract new subscribers.
Snap, therefore, needs to pull up its socks to reap in the benefits of growing social media advertising, which is anticipated to outperform newspaper advertising by 2020 per advertising agency Zenith Optimedia.
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It could become the mother of all technological revolutions. Apple sold a mere 1 billion iPhones in 10 years but a new breakthrough is expected to generate more than 27 billion devices in just 3 years, creating a $1.7 trillion market.
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From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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