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Snapchat's new partners attach instant apps and games

Snap wants its ads to open to something interesting rather than a boring mobile website. Today Snap announced 14 new ad Creative Partners that will help build custom games, interactive videos, gyroscope-powered epxeriences, lead generation campaigns, and pre-loaded Instant Apps as destinations for Snapchat ads. They'll also help connect advertisers to influencers, despite Snapchat historically distancing itself from social stars.


Snapchat launched the Creative Partner program last year in lieu of an open developer platform. But now instead of focusing on building the visuals for Snap ads people see between Stories or Discover content, these new Creative Partners enhance the post-swipe-up experience on ads that load in Snapchat's internal browser.

Snapchat has been working with partners to test new post-swipe functionality, such as this playable football game for Budweiser's Super Bowl campaign this year, or this soccer game made for Addidas, via AdWeek SocialTimes

The new partner list includes Celtra, VidMob, Refuel4, Vidsy, Quickframe, Spredfast, and Percolate, and you can see what all 14 do in the graphic below.

If Snapchat can make the post-swipe experience more enjoyable, it could train users to click throug hits ads more instead of quickly skipping through them. Meanwhile, the experiences translate into longer time-on-site, engagement, and recall for advertisers since users can actually interact with the ad's landing page.


Some of the functionality offered by these new partners include:

Famous - Instant Apps pre-loaded in the web view for immediate interactive experiences
Adludio - Haptics and gyroscope-powered experiences
Jebbit - Lead generation campaigns with fillable forms
Ceros - Animations and interactive experiences
Undertone - Premium, classy ad design
Whalar - Matches brands with influencers
Flyr - Customized design templates
Wirewax - Interactive videos
Entrypoint - 360 videos
TreSensa - Custom games
GameCommerce - Branded game development platform
CrossInstall - Playable ads to drive game downloads
Popwallet - Mobile coupons
Slyce - Mobile coupons