Snap has recently announced that its paid over USD $250 million to creators engaging themselves with Spotlight Snaps over the year of 2021.
This entire amount was distributed to over 12,000 separate creators, showing that Snapchat is not around to play. Which, to be fair, is the only way a social media platform can survive and keep itself afloat. The marketplace, despite only having a few key players (Meta, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube if you really want to stretch the definition), feels incredibly saturated due to just how much these separate online venues have started to expand. A new extension of one of these separate platforms seems to open up every month, especially where the likes of Meta are involved. TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are also providing a lot of competition to Spotlight Snaps, since these platforms are doing extremely well and all feature content creators making short-form videos that engage millions of viewers. YouTube’s creator programs have extended themselves to include Shorts, while TikTok and Reels are also proving incredibly lucrative for their own respective user bases.
In the face of all this, Snap has to keep drawing users in so as to not be cornered out of the marketplace entirely. If other platforms are enticing users to create with the likes of sponsorships and monetization, Snapchat has to follow suit. In other words, gotta spend money in order to make money, and Snap seems to have caught on to the program. It’s launched quite a few sponsorship and monetization plans, with Spotlight Challenges being the most recent of them. The Challenges program has users earning anywhere from USD $250 to $25,000, depending on how much engagement and views their Spotlight Snaps attracted. This also creates a positive feedback cycle where, when users earn money from their online exploits, they tend to invest more of that money back into creating better content. Overall, Snapchat keeps winning.
However, all of this is in the past, and as 2021 wraps up, we have to keep an eye out for the future. Platforms such as Instagram and TikTok already are. Instagram has stated that it will dedicated a literal billion US dollars to creators on the platform, and I don’t see how Reels can go anywhere but up after such a commitment. Not to be outdone, TikTok has also pledged over 3 billion dollars, which will be disseminated amongst users across the next three years, which is sure to spell success for the platform.
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This entire amount was distributed to over 12,000 separate creators, showing that Snapchat is not around to play. Which, to be fair, is the only way a social media platform can survive and keep itself afloat. The marketplace, despite only having a few key players (Meta, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube if you really want to stretch the definition), feels incredibly saturated due to just how much these separate online venues have started to expand. A new extension of one of these separate platforms seems to open up every month, especially where the likes of Meta are involved. TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts are also providing a lot of competition to Spotlight Snaps, since these platforms are doing extremely well and all feature content creators making short-form videos that engage millions of viewers. YouTube’s creator programs have extended themselves to include Shorts, while TikTok and Reels are also proving incredibly lucrative for their own respective user bases.
In the face of all this, Snap has to keep drawing users in so as to not be cornered out of the marketplace entirely. If other platforms are enticing users to create with the likes of sponsorships and monetization, Snapchat has to follow suit. In other words, gotta spend money in order to make money, and Snap seems to have caught on to the program. It’s launched quite a few sponsorship and monetization plans, with Spotlight Challenges being the most recent of them. The Challenges program has users earning anywhere from USD $250 to $25,000, depending on how much engagement and views their Spotlight Snaps attracted. This also creates a positive feedback cycle where, when users earn money from their online exploits, they tend to invest more of that money back into creating better content. Overall, Snapchat keeps winning.
However, all of this is in the past, and as 2021 wraps up, we have to keep an eye out for the future. Platforms such as Instagram and TikTok already are. Instagram has stated that it will dedicated a literal billion US dollars to creators on the platform, and I don’t see how Reels can go anywhere but up after such a commitment. Not to be outdone, TikTok has also pledged over 3 billion dollars, which will be disseminated amongst users across the next three years, which is sure to spell success for the platform.
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