What does Snap offer:
Snap Inc. is a camera company. Their flagship product, Snapchat, is a camera application that helps people communicate visually with friends and family through short videos and images called Snaps. The company's products are:
Camera: Helps offer a wide variety of creative tools, created by both the company and the community, to make it easy for people to personalize and add context to their Snaps.
Friends Page: This was the first version of the application i.e. a chat service
Discover: Discover helps surface the most interesting Stories and Shows from publishers, creators, and the community, based on a user’s subscriptions and interests
Snap Map: Pulling down on the Camera screen brings you to a live map of your location
Memories: Users can choose to save the Snaps they create in a searchable personal collection called Memories.
Spectacles: Spectacles connect seamlessly with Snapchat and capture video from a human perspective.
What Are The Alternatives?
Major competitors are Apple, Facebook (includes instagram and whatsapp), Twitter and Google.
What Is The Basis of Competition?
Competition depends on what a company can provide their users with, ranging from variety of products, services, content, and online advertising offerings. Competition would also come from traditional and online media businesses for advertising budgets. including social media.
Has 3 major segments:
Advertising Products: The ad products are built on the same foundation as consumer products. Snap Ads let advertisers tell their stories the same way the users do, using full screen videos with sound. Snap Ads also allow advertisers to integrate additional experiences and actions directly within these ad units, including watching a long-form video, visiting a website, or installing an app.
Campaign Management and Delivery: The company is working to provide automated, sophisticated, and scalable ad buying and campaign management which would help advertisers increase their return on investment by providing more refined targeting, and the ability to test and learn with different creatives or campaign attributes in real time among other things.
Measuring Advertising Effectiveness: The company offers third-party and first-party solutions to provide analytics on campaign attributes like reach, frequency, demographics, and viewability; changes in perceptions like brand favorability or purchase intent; and lifts in actual behavior like purchases, foot traffic, app installs, and online purchases.