Snapchat ramps up UK pitch, but ad buyers remain unconvinced - Digiday - 0 views
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Not even the promise of lower CPMs as a result of less competition was enough to tempt large swaths of advertisers to change their view of the platform last year. But it wasn’t for lack of effort. Snapchat execs pushed the self serve auction model in the U.K. for much of 2018.
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Snapchat’s impressions are now the cheapest of its peers, according to the ad buyers interviewed for this article.
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ll told, the ephemeral mobile messaging app had a good year in 2018 thanks in part to the arrival of the Snap Pixel. When it launched last summer, the pixel gave its ad business more clout as agencies could go to advertisers with more accurate data based on how Snapchat’s ads drive direct response clicks to websites. Deeper data on what actions Snapchat’s ads drove meant ad buyers could move away from last click attribution models.
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Viewability has long been an issue for advertisers on Snapchat where ads remain easily skippable, contributing to low viewability rates. One paid media director at a media agency said that he has seen viewability rates in the single digits. That may potentially be addressed by a new non-skippable ad format,