Since May this year, the number of videos viewed on Snapchat have almost tripled to over 6 billion daily views. Snapchat confirmed this following a report from the Financial times. In May this year, Chief Executive of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, told Bloomberg that video views were up to 2 billion hits per day.
Snapchat is almost catching up to social media giant Facebook. As of last week Facebook announced that they were getting around 8 billion video views per day.
There are slight differences in how Facebook, Snapchat and other video outlets record what actually accounts for 1 view. For example, Facebook only records a view if it has lasted for 3 seconds or more, as seen in the “introducing video metrics” on Facebook for business. Similar to Facebook, YouTube only charges advertisers if a video has been viewed for more than 30 seconds, substantially longer than Facebook.
Unlike Facebook and YouTube, Snapchat does not say how long a video must play for it to count, but a recent report says that Snapchat have been counting views that are less than a second long.
According to Snapchat, 60% of smartphone owners in the US aged between 13-34 have the application on their device, which is available on most platforms such as Android and iOS.
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Last Updated on November 27, 2018.
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