How to get paid on Snapchat

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Wondering how to get paid on Snapchat?

Creators are making a killing on the platform, especially with the start of their Snapchat Spotlight program.

This teen made $1 million dollars on Snapchat with Spotlight!

Stories like these showing teens making thousands, tens of thousands and millions of dollars from Snapchat are the real deal. Can you get a piece of the pie though? I think so.

Whether your goal is to make $1,000 a month or experience a more substantial payday, what better opportunity to make money online than by doing fun stuff you enjoy on a social platform like Snapchat? Keep reading to learn how you can start getting paid on Snapchat.

How to get paid on Snapchat?

The best way to get paid on Snapchat is by using all of the features.

The more you use it like taking photos, videos, adding captions and adding filters the more your followers will increase. You can also make money by selling products or advertising them on your account. The more followers you have the greater chance you have of getting noticed by companies who want to advertise their products on your account.

Snapchat is a social media app which was created in 2011 by three students from Stanford University. The social app allows people to take photos and videos while they are going about their daily lives and share them with other Snapchat users.

There are also ‘live’ features that allow you to see what your friends are up to right now or what’s going on around the world using video footage from the news.

After the content has been watched it disappears from your devices, so if you want to keep anything you have been sent then you need to screenshot it straight away!

This means there isn’t a lot of fun involved when someone sends an embarrassing photo because they know it will only be seen once before disappearing forever.

Quick guide on how to make money on Snapchat

1) Use all of the features – take photos, videos, add captions and filters.

2) Increase your followers. The more followers you have, the greater chance you have of getting noticed by companies who want to advertise their products on your account.

3) Sell products or advertise them on your account.

4) Have fun! Snapchat is a social media app which was created in 2011 by three students from Stanford University. It is a fun way to share what you are up to with friends and family.

The content disappears after it has been watched, so there is no need to worry about embarrassing photos being seen by others!

What’s the Snapchat Spotlight program?

You’ll use their new feature Spotlight, which is similar to Tik Tok’s Discover page or Instagram’s For You page and the goal is to have your video get a lot of views!

The more views you get, the more you can potentially earn.

There’s no minimum number of views you need to get paid. It’s based on the top-performing videos for the day. So, one day you could get 100,000 views on a Snapchat Spotlight video and qualify to make money with Snapchat and the next day you could have 200,000 views and not qualify.

But, if you are eligible to make money with Spotlight, Snapchat will send you a message on the app to let you know.

The entire process from video creation to payday where the money lands in your account is about 2-3 months but you’ll have a few notifications during the process to guide you through the process and go over next steps.

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Final word on how to get paid on Snapchat

There you go, our best ideas for how to get paid on Snapchat.

Have you made any Spotlight videos? If so, how was your experience.

Jenn Leach, MBA

Jenn Leach is a Houston-based MBA with over a decade of experience in the banking industry. She writes at Millennial Nextdoor where she writes finance, money, business, and lifestyle content to help millennials create additional income streams online. Join her on Substack at https://jennleach.substack.com.

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