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Dr Sujatha K S
Research Guide,
Srinivas University, Mangalore
Abstract:
Social media has become a bridge to maintain a personal relationship between a brand and its followers. With
over 455 billion users and 4 billion posts per day, Social media is a platform that has become an essential tool
of marketing for a small, medium or large type of business. Due to the rapidly changing preferences of social
media users, it’s very difficult to keep adapting the right strategy for a perfect social media platform. The
purpose of the case study is to compare the strategies used by businesses in Instagram, Facebook, and snap
chat. The study will also evaluate and compare major social media platforms. The study will also provide
insights on how these three social media platforms can be a base for marketing at an advanced level. This
study provides insights into digital marketing strategies for three different social media platforms.
Keywords:
Digitalization, social media platforms, digital marketing strategies, Social audience, Followers, Ephemerality.
Introduction:
Social Media has been a part and parcel of our lives for years together. As per rouse 2016 Interaction, content
sharing, and collaboration will become a social network. Social networks have become a trend to connect or
reunite with their friends and family. (Hanna, Rohm, & Crittenden, 2011)The whole universe is getting much
dependent on social media and digitalization which is not only a source of information but also a source of
influence. Businesses have now begun to connect their business to social media to have better coverage and
have a better number of customers. Businesses need to utilize various social media platforms like Facebook,
Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc. Businesses will be able to reach global markets much
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better than earlier through social media platforms. This research was conducted to evaluate three platforms
namely Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
Instagram:
Instagram has been an application that is used by almost billions of people daily. People could use Instagram
from 6th October 2010 which was developed by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. Instagram has become so
into a life that without it we cannot survive just like without food we cannot survive. It was simply a photo
clicking and sharing application, where people could click the photos and share them with their friends in that
application. Instagram is created to take pictures, geotag their photos and videos, search and browse others'
images and videos, comment, share others' images and videos, and share to other social media platforms.
Facebook:
Facebook was designed by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004 (Sheldon, 2008). Facebook has hit the point
of becoming the most popular social networking site in the world. Facebook is growing at a rapid rate of more
than 200 percent in India with more than 85.5% of Facebook users. According to the information posted on
the Facebook website in 2007, Facebook’s primary purpose was to “share information with people you know,
see what’s going on with your friends, and look up to people around you” (Facebook.com, 2007 as cited in
Sheldon, 2008).
Snapchat:
Snapchat as the name itself suggests brings together the joy of visual culture, capturing fun moments and
sharing with friends and relatives. Effects that are created out of photos are vanishing after 10 seconds. The
“FOMO- Fear of missing out” technique was first applied by Snapchat, which means stories people share will
vanish within 24 hours. The main purpose of the article is to compare the social media platforms in terms of
business commitment.
Review of Literature
As mentioned by kousoulou Facebook has become the most used social media platform in the world with 2.89
billion active users. As per Hanna et all, the World is getting more and more dependent on digitalization.
Social media is becoming more a source of influence rather than a source of information. As per Aichner
and Jacob social media is described as web-based applications that facilitate the exchange of content,
discussion, and marketing, etc. They also have identified blogs, business networks, video sharing, social
gaming, photo sharing, forums, social networks as various forms of social media. According to Yang et all,
about 9% of marketing budgets have been assigned to social media marketing in 2014. Jain Zaher et all has
said in their research about the stakeholder’s expectations to have their products having marketed on social
media platforms which have formed an integral part of facilitating between the organization and its customers
and between customers themselves. Taken smith et all have stated in their research that 88% of marketers
gained more exposure on their business than before using social media. There was a rise in search engine
rankings because of the advent of social media marketing. Nowadays, Consumers trust social media more
than any other companies messages. Loyalty among consumers can be maintained through social media
platforms and also helps to maintain a strong relationship between consumers and companies. Loyal
consumers make a good sort of information for viral marketing. Studies made by Taken smith et all show
that there is a positive correlation between social media activity and a firm’s financial performance. but as per
Yang et all, social media platforms increase the profits of companies but it is difficult to measure return on
investments of the same. Kousoulou claimed that companies develop products based on insights given by
customers through social media.
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The objective of the study:
1. To analyze the concept of three social media platforms namely Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat
2. To do a SWOT analysis of three social media platforms
3. To analyze different strategies used by three social media platforms
Research methodology:
The case study method has been used to compare the social media marketing techniques by three leading
social media platforms namely Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat.
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The chart depicts the data regarding how many hours the respondents spend on social media per day. 27 of
the respondents spend 1 hour to 5 hours per day only on social media. 1 respondent spends 6 hours to 10 hours
per day on social media. 2 respondents spend more than 10 hours per day on social media. 10 respondents
spend less than 1 hour.
Competitors analysis of three social media platforms Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat:
4P’s Product: Online services Product: Photo sharing, Product: Photo editor,
Price: Free messengers Modifier
Place: Websites, Mobile Price: Free Price: Free
apps Place: Websites, Mobile Place: Websites,
Promotion: Word of apps Mobile apps
Mouth, Ads on TVs, Promotion: Word of Promotion: Viral
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Market A recent survey which A recent survey which A recent survey which
positioning happened in October 2021 happened in October 2021 happened in October
positions Facebook in the positions Instagram in the 2021 positions
first position with 2.797 fifth position with 1.287 Snapchat in the
billion users globally billion users globally twelfth position with
538 billion users
globally
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services or socializing Whatsapp, which is a feature that sharing live locations
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are other services of audience from fake Snapchat
Facebook accounts or bot messages
will be the major service
provided by Instagram like
others like social sensei,
combin etc.
The above bar diagram depicts the respondent’s regular social media platform usage. 33 of the respondents
use Instagram regularly. 9 respondents use Snapchat regularly. 1 respondent uses Facebook regularly.
35 respondents agree that Instagram has more features than Snapchat and Facebook. According to
respondents, Facebook does not have any effective features. 5 of the respondents say that Snapchat has more
features than Facebook, but fewer features than Instagram.
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● 3 C’s: 3C’s strategy namely Consistency, clarity, confusion less are the most powerful tools in Social
media Marketing. The post or advertisement should be constantly or continuously need to be
highlighted as people will forget often, they should be remembered of the ads or posts regularly. There
should also have clarity on the post which is advertised through Instagram. Clarity seems to be
confusion less as no advertiser will be facing the audience on the front desk
● Use of Feeds and stories: The contents or posts which are to be advertised are to be highlighted in the
feeds and stories. Instagram feeds are the place where the followers of your accounts will get to know
everything one has posted. Instagram Stories will last for 24 hours then they will be available in
Instagram feeds. Instagram reels also will attract a number of audiences towards the business.
● Proper use of Hashtags: Hashtags are an important tool to attract a large audience as the post will reach
more audiences. If the advertiser posts using some hashtags these contents will be displayed on the
relevant hashtag pages. People who search with hashtags will be able to see the content which comes
under the hashtags.
● User-friendly content: The content that appears on Instagram should be user-friendly. For example,
the link which will be associated with the advertisement must be properly provided as the user loses
his interest in the same.
● Quick responses: If a social media user sees the post and asks some queries the advertiser or
entrepreneur should quickly respond to the queries. If there is a delay in the same either the user will
forget it or one may lose a genuine customer.
● Use of paid promotions: Paid promotions will have a greater impact in influencing the consumers
purchasing their product or using the advertised services. As paid advertisers will be reaching more
audiences the response from the users will be in large numbers.
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Limitations of the study:
Only three social media platforms namely Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat was used for
comparative study
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uniqueness in the features. The ephemeral content of Snapchat makes it more popular as people or
users will be having a fear of missing out.
In business, the involvement of Snapchat will not be very effective as there are fewer users compared
with Facebook and Instagram. There is one problem associated with the user name. Even though a
business account can be created in Snapchat, the username in the account cannot be changed. Even
though there is a provision for putting stories of business on Snapchat, they need to be advertised along
with other social media platforms as well to get more business.
So findings of the comparative study prove that none of the social media platforms are perfect. Each
has its weaknesses. The best social media to market the business is Instagram. Even though more users
are found on Facebook, there are disadvantages of leaking of private accounts or hacking of private
accounts makes it more unsafe for business accounts too. Instagram has more features compared to
Snapchat and Facebook. So businesses can use all features like usage of hashtags, usage of reels,
posting as stories, etc. which attract more people into the business.
Conclusion:
Social media is a gathering of people in a form of media to form collective voices to get what users want.
Social media marketing is an internet-based marketing technique. In comparing it with traditional marketing
techniques, both are similar in their way but the mode of operating or way of approaching people is different.
The above study mainly focuses on the comparative analysis of Three social Media platforms namely
Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. The case study research proves Social media marketing is the need of
the hour and also this study specifies a Comparative analysis of strategies that businesses have to follow in
social media platforms. Even though businesses advertise their products through Facebook, Respondents have
said that Facebook is an old-fashioned social media platform, where no more users will rely upon. With more
features involved in Instagram, businesses can take advantage of the same and make use of all the features to
advertise their products in the same. Snapchat indeed is just an entertaining application and even though users
use the application, they delete the application after they get bored. So to conclude, Facebook is Old fashioned
application to connect to business, Instagram has more features and is helpful for business. Snapchat has been
used as a more entertaining application than for business.
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