Creators Loren Gray, Savannah Demers, Matt Friend and Harry Jowsey also participated. Snap said the campaign, which was created in-house, would run across digital channels.
Snap’s campaign coincides with the TikTok drama in the U.S., where the app is being threatened with a shutdown. TikTok’s China-based owner has been forced to divest from the company in the U.S., part of a law passed last year that claimed the app was a national security threat. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide on TikTok’s appeal as early as Wednesday. If TikTok loses, the company’s attorney has said it would be forced to “go dark” in the U.S. That could come Jan. 19, as outlined by the law.
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TikTok’s uncertainty has led creators and brands to seek out alternative platforms. The major U.S. social media apps, though, have built-in user bases that make them natural fits to capture TikTok castoffs, according to marketing leaders who have spoken with Ad Age. YouTube Shorts and Meta Reels are poised to capitalize, and Snapchat remains an important platform that has adopted some of TikTok’s features.
Snap was mostly founded on its disappearing videos and images for sharing among friends, rather than a mass-broadcast channel. In 2020, Snap launched a Spotlight page that serves up algorithm-personalized videos, similar to TikTok’s entertainment feed.