snapchat-arpu

Snapchat ARPU

Business / By / June 7, 2023

Snapchat global ARPU was $3.47 in Q4 of 2022, compared to $4.06 in Q4 of 2021.

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Snapchat Business Model

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Snapchat is a camera company which business model moves across three industries: social media, content marketing, and AR. Snapchat generates most of its revenue from several ad formats (AR Ads, Snap Ads, Sponsored Geolifters, and Sponsored Lenses). The company also produces Spectacles, a set of AR glasses enabling content creators to produce interactive experiences through Snapchat. 

Snapchat Revenue

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99% of Snapchat’s revenue comes from advertising. In 2022, Snapchat grew to over $4.6 billion in revenues, compared to $4.12 billion in 2021 and $2.5 billion in 2020. By 2022, Snapchat recorded a net loss of over $1.4 billion.

Is Snapchat Profitable?

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In 2022, Snapchat recorded over $1.4 billion in net losses, with $4.6 billion in revenues, primarily from advertising. Snapchat has not yet found its way to profitability.

Snapchat Users

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Snapchat measures its growth through a metric called Daily Active Users (DAUs), as a user on Snapchat usually interacts with it multiple times a day. Over the years, Snapchat DAUs grew from 229 million in early 2020 to 375 million by the end of 2022.

Snapchat ARPU

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Snapchat global ARPU was $3.47 in Q4 of 2022, compared to $4.06 in Q4 of 2021.

Facebook Business Model

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Facebook, the main product of Meta is an attention merchant. As such, its algorithms condense the attention of over 2.91 billion monthly active users as of June 2021. Meta generated $117.9 billion in revenues, in 2021, of which $114.9 billion from advertising (97.4% of the total revenues) and over $2.2 billion from Reality Labs (the augmented and virtual reality products arm). 

Instagram Business Model

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Instagram makes money via visual advertising. As part of Facebook products, the company generates revenues for Facebook Inc.’s overall business model. Acquired by Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, today, Instagram is integrated into the overall Facebook business strategy.

TikTok Business Model

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TikTok is a creative Chinese social media platform driven by short-form video content enabling users to interact and generate content at scale. TikTok primarily makes money through advertising, generating $4.6 billion in advertising revenues in 2021, thus making it among the most popular attention-based business models or attention merchants.

Read Also: Snapchat Business Model, Facebook Business Model, Instagram Business Model, YouTube Business Model, Twitter Business Model.

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