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MarTech » Customer & Digital Experience » Snapchat: We can prove people watch mobile videos *with* sound

Snapchat: We can prove people watch mobile videos *with* sound

Snapchat’s claim that two-thirds of its videos are watched with sound counters Facebook’s efforts to convince brands mobile video isn’t audio-friendly.

Tim Peterson on June 9, 2016 at 3:07 pm

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Facebook has conditioned brands and media companies to believe mobile videos are best when they’re basically silent movies because they’re usually played on mute. “Not true!” according to Snapchat.

Snapchat claims that two-thirds of the videos posted to its mobile app are viewed with the sound on, the company announced on Thursday. And it’s putting its money where its mouth is by working with digital ad analytics firm Moat to measure how many of their Snapchat ad impressions were served in view to actual humans with the sound on.

That’s good news for brands like Unilever and media-buying agencies like WPP’s GroupM that have been pressing digital publishers to only sell them ads that real-life humans actually see and hear. And it’s potentially bad news for Facebook and any other publisher trying to convince brands that mobile video viewers are only interested in being shown, not told, things.

Facebook’s sales teams have been pushing advertisers to produce Facebook and Instagram video ads that can be just as easily watched with the sound off as on, to the point of rolling out a way to automatically caption their video ads. And publishers like Mic are noticing that 85 percent of the people watching their Facebook videos are doing so on mute.

But Facebook might have a hard time with that push if Snapchat’s claim holds up once brands are able to see for themselves what share of people are willing to see and hear their video ads. It might be true that Facebook’s and Instagram’s mobile video viewers, in particular, are sound-averse; both Facebook and Instagram play videos with the sound off by default. But as Snapchat’s stat shows, that doesn’t mean mobile video viewers in general are anti-audio. And that means marketers — especially big brands accustomed to people seeing and hearing their TV spots — might start asking Facebook, “Why can’t you be more like Snapchat?”


Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily MarTech. Staff authors are listed here.


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About The Author

Tim Peterson
Tim Peterson, Third Door Media's Social Media Reporter, has been covering the digital marketing industry since 2011. He has reported for Advertising Age, Adweek and Direct Marketing News. A born-and-raised Angeleno who graduated from New York University, he currently lives in Los Angeles. He has broken stories on Snapchat's ad plans, Hulu founding CEO Jason Kilar's attempt to take on YouTube and the assemblage of Amazon's ad-tech stack; analyzed YouTube's programming strategy, Facebook's ad-tech ambitions and ad blocking's rise; and documented digital video's biggest annual event VidCon, BuzzFeed's branded video production process and Snapchat Discover's ad load six months after launch. He has also developed tools to monitor brands' early adoption of live-streaming apps, compare Yahoo's and Google's search designs and examine the NFL's YouTube and Facebook video strategies.

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