Yesterday*Snapchat, the popular multimedia messaging app, filed for an IPO. For us the more interesting news is that at the same time the company signed a deal with Foursquare. The goal of this partnership*is*to provide marketers with precise geotargeting capabilities for*geofilters (animated overlays on pictures).
Snapchat introduced geofilters a year ago but currently it’s limited to nearby cities or landmarks in addition to the sponsored locations*it sells to businesses. With*Foursquare’s data the start-up will have an access to the database of over*90 million locations. This creates a huge opportunity for better targeting but making use of it is actually much more difficult than you might think.
Twitter also announced a partnership with Foursquare two years ago but the company did not manage to build any value added around location information. Snapchat is however in a totally different place and the value proposition is very clear. Pin-pointing user*to a specific store or restaurant could for example allow large chains to introduce sponsored video filters that differs location by location. Users would want to collect them all.
With this deal Snapchat can actually sell more filters while enhancing the user experience. Win-win.*Location is again proving to be the killer feature of almost any app.
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