OnlineVideo.net—Can a brand get a persuasive message across in only eight seconds? Many are trying.
Advertising intelligence company MediaRadar has analyzed Snapchat brand activity and issued a report showing that the average Snapchat ad length is eight seconds.
No other social platform makes it as easy to bypass video ads, so marketers need to grab the viewers’ attention by the first frame. Simply tapping on a Snapchat ad lets viewers bypass it and get on to something they’d rather watch. Some Snapchat advertisers are running ads that are less than 5 seconds long, says MediaRadar. The majority of ads on the platform-60 percent-are between 8 and 10 seconds long.
MediaRadar also looked at where advertisers put their ads on Snapchat. Some of the platform’s Discover channels are far more popular than others. For example, the iHeartRadio channel was the most popular, getting placements from 61 advertisers. The CNN channel was the least popular. It’s no surprise, then, that CNN ended its Snapchat Discover channel in late December.
The data MediaRadar looked at was for ad placements carried out through its platform from November 2017 through January 2018. In that timeframe, 397 brands placed video ads on 52 Discover channels. The average buy was for 4 or 5 channels, and the largest was for 29 channels.
“We found almost no examples of a brand buying across all of a single publisher’s Snapchat channels. For example, no advertiser buys both Wired and Vogue (Condé Nast), or Cosmo and Esquire (Hearst). This reinforces the idea that buys are gender targeted,” MediaRadar’s report says.
Brand categories advertising on Snapchat most often are media and entertainment (48 percent), technology (13 percent), and retail (12 percent).
For data on much more than just the average Snapchat ad length, download “MediaRadar’s Snapchat Snapshot” for free.
