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Facebook is Beating Snapchat
Preface
Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak has come out with data and analysis that reveals the much feared Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) rivalry with Snapchat appears to be no rivalry at all. Facebook is beating Snapchat even inthe coveted 18-24 age group.
STORY
Nowak did his own homework and what he found was rather staggering for both Facebook and Snapchat. here's a snippet:
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Analysis of Facebook daily user growth shows strong — and inflecting — second quarter engagement, despite Snapchat concerns.
We don't believe Snapchat is having a material impact on Facebook's engagement or daily active user (DAU) growth.
Analysis of Facebook daily user growth shows strong — and inflecting — second quarter engagement, despite Snapchat concerns.
We don't believe Snapchat is having a material impact on Facebook's engagement or daily active user (DAU) growth.
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Source: Yahoo! Finance
The threat from Snapchat to Facebook has always been in the younger users, generally lumped into a category of 18-24 year olds. While Facebook boasts over a billion daily average users (DAUs), Snapchat has quickly grown its user base to 150 million DAUs. Further, both Facebook and Snapchat claim over 10 billion video views a day on their apps.
With video fast becoming the revolutionary new adverting medium, Wall Street rightly has questioned the risk that Snapchat poses to Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). But, here's a chart that shows perhaps that risk is less than previously believed.
Source: Focus on the green curve that charts the Facebook daily average user to monthly average user ratio. A higher number implies greater usage and engagement. We can see that Facebook is the only one of the group showing two consecutive quarters of growth, while Snapchat is the only other one to show growth of any kind.
And, not to be outdone, that chart looks eerily similar if we plot the 25-34 year olds as well.
Ages 25-34
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