How K-Mart Used Snapchat Marketing to Target its Teen Audience

How K-Mart Used Snapchat Marketing to Target its Teen Audience

Since joining Snapchat, K-Mart's Stylesip  (the branded destination that represents Kmart's junior brands) has used its activity on the app to cleverly target and engage with its teenage audience. In the latest example of effective Snapchat strategy, it used a series of five separate images - sent a few hours apart - to tease the reveal of the celebrity who had been chosen to represent its BONGO clothes line. It then encouraged fans to guess who the person was. Let's take a closer look...

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Instagram Video Contest Ideas: Airbnb's video shorts competition success

Instagram Video Contest Ideas: Airbnb's video shorts competition success

2014 has been dubbed "the year of video," and one of the best platforms to test this theory is on Instagram, whose 15-second video limit provides ample opportunity for brands to market themselves and launch promotions. Video contests on Instagram may never match the popularity of photos, but when they're done right, the results can be very lucrative. Here's one case study to show you how...

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How to Use Snapchat Stories "Reveals" to Captivate Fans

How to Use Snapchat Stories "Reveals" to Captivate Fans

One of the great benefits of Snapchat's "blink and you'll miss it" marketing is the dedicated time viewers must give to the content you send out. While this limit is 10 seconds per ordinary snap, by combining multiple snaps in a Snapchat story, you can extend your message length much further, and encourage more watch-time, as demonstrated by the example from GrubHub below...

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See How Doritos and Taco Bell Won Valentine's Day on Snapchat (And how DirecTV and Intel failed)

See How Doritos and Taco Bell Won Valentine's Day on Snapchat (And how DirecTV and Intel failed)

Love was in the air on Valentine's Day for both Doritos and Taco bell, who in my opinion, "won" with their promotions for the mini-holiday on Snapchat. Their approaches were very different, but equally as powerful. Let's take a look at their Stories...

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