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Snapchat Global ARPU

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Snapchat global ARPU was $3.29 in Q4 of 2023, compared to $3.47 in Q4 of 2022.

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Who Owns Snapchat

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Evan Spiegel and Robert Cornelius Murphy are the co-founders and, respectively, CEO and CTO of Snapchat. Evan Spiegel owns nearly 3% of Class A stocks, 26% of Class B stocks, and 53.4% of Class C stocks for a 53.2% voting power, whereas Robert Murphy owns 5.2% of Class A stocks, 26% of Class B stocks, and 46.6% of Class C stocks for a 46.4% voting power. Institutional investors comprise FMR (10.65% ownership), Tencent Holdings (16.7% ownership), and The Vanguard Group (6.4% ownership).

Evan Spiegel’s Net Worth

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Evan Thomas Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snapchat. He’s also the main shareholder. Indeed, he both owns and controls Snapchat, and his stake in the company is currently valued at around $3 billion.

Snapchat Business Model

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Snapchat Revenue

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99% of Snapchat’s revenue comes from advertising. In 2023, Snapchat generated $4.6 billion in revenues, the same in 2022, compared to $4.12 billion in 2021 and $2.5 billion in 2020. By 2023, Snapchat recorded a net loss of over $1.3 billion.

Is Snapchat Profitable?

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In 2023, Snapchat recorded over $1.3 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 414 million by the end of 2023.

Snapchat ARPU

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Snapchat global ARPU was $3.29 in Q4 of 2023, compared to $3.47 in Q4 of 2022.

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 three billion monthly active users as of 2023. Meta generated nearly $135 billion in revenues in 2023, of which nearly $132 billion was from advertising (97.8% of the total revenues), $1.9 billion from Reality Labs (the augmented and virtual reality products arm), and over $1 billion in other revenue. 

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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