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Advertising on Snapchat

Start advertising to a highly engaged audience on Snapchat.
Create an ad

Why Snapchat Ads?

Snapchatters are a unique, valuable audience that can't be reached anywhere else

238 million
people use Snapchat every day, on average 1
$1 trillion
the direct spending power of millennials & Gen Z 2
Our community spends an average of over
30 minutes
on Snapchat every day 3
Snapchatters are
more likely to make purchases on mobile 4

Meet your objectives

Choose a campaign objective and optimize towards the events that matter most


  • Introduce potential customers to your business or brand
  • Leave a lasting impression with your target demographic
  • Bring awareness to new product updates or launches
  • Drive foot traffic


  • Increase video views 
  • Drive traffic to your website or app
  • Increase app installs
  • Generate leads


Drive product sales and desired website and app actions with the Snap Pixel
  • Increase sales using your product catalog
  • Drive specific actions on your website or app
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Learn about objectives

Impactful ad formats for every objective

Find the perfect way to reach your audience and drive results

Single Image or Video Ads

Single Image or Video Ads are full-screen ads that appear in-between Stories.
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Collection Ads

Collection Ads appear in Stories, and showcase a series of products, giving Snapchatters a tappable way to browse.

Story Ads

Story Ads are a series of 3-20 Snaps that live alongside popular content tailored to Snapchatter’s preferences in the Discover section.

AR Lenses

AR Lenses allow advertisers to create interactive moments with augmented reality experiences that Snapchatters can play with and send to friends.

Filter Ads

Filter Ads are creative overlays that can be applied over Snaps, allowing advertisers to take part in Snapchatters' conversations.


Commercials, found within Snapchat's Curated Content, are video ads that are non-skippable for six seconds and can drive brand awareness.

Target the most relevant audience for your objectives

Reach your audience based on interest, location, demographics, and how they’ve interacted with your brand

Interests and behaviors

Reach Snapchatters based on their online and real world interests and behaviors.


Target by country, metros, radiuses around a specific address, and more.


Reach Snapchatters by age, gender, language, and more.

Pixel Custom Audiences

Engage Snapchatters who have interacted with your website.

Snap Audience Match (SAM) Audiences

Match your customer list with Snapchatters.

Lookalike Audiences

Expand your reach by finding Snapchatters similar to your existing audience.

Measure how your ad campaigns are performing

Gain valuable insights from Snapchat's Ads Manager, a centralized dashboard where you can test, learn, and optimize your campaigns efficiently

Track website conversion events

Measure conversion events across devices. The Snap Pixel is a piece of code which receives information on actions taken on your site, allowing you to measure the impact of your campaigns and optimize accordingly.
Optimize bids for conversion events. After implementing the Snap Pixel, measure conversion events, such as purchases that occur on your website, and optimize towards those events.
Re-engage Snapchatters. With the Snap Pixel, you can access ‘Pixel Custom Audiences’ which allows you to re-target Snapchatters that have already taken an action on your website.

Track app installs and app engagement

Measure your campaign’s performance
Access campaign metrics, customize reporting views, and export data all within Ads Manager

Two ways to get started

Instant Create

Use Instant Create to create a single ad in minutes to drive website visits, app visits, app installs, or calls or texts to your business. Instant Create is a streamlined flow that leverages our most popular templates and simplified ad detail and bid options.

Advanced Create

The Advanced Create workflow lets you create multiple ad sets with more enhanced targeting and bid goals. You can choose from all advertising objectives and bid goals, including the option to optimize towards users who are most likely to convert.

Get started with Advanced Create in 5 easy steps

1. Choose your objective: awareness, consideration or conversion
2. Name your campaign, choose your ad format and select your audience
3. Set the duration and budget for your campaign and determine the placement of your ad
4. Design your ad
5. Publish!

Set your own budget

Launch ads with just $5 a day

Set daily and lifetime budgets that work for you and your business.

Optimize towards your goal

Optimize towards your desired user action, such as website conversions or app installs.

Decide how much you spend

Monitor how your campaigns are performing and adjust your budget accordingly. Pause or turn your ads off at any time.

Get started with  Snapchat Ads today!

1Snap Inc. internal data Q2 2019 vs. Q2 2020. See Snap Inc. public filings with the SEC.
2Cassandra an Engine Company. Generational Spend Research Q4 ‘19.
3Snap Inc. internal data Q1 2020. See Snap Inc. public filings with the SEC.
4Murphy Research study commissioned by Snap Inc., July 2017; among US users.