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How Snag Grew

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How did Snag grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Snag grew by running user-generated content (UGC) campaigns at scale and then turning those creatives into paid ads. They reached out to many creators and filtered them through interviews to identify those with built-in virality before scaling up paid ads on specific TikTok videos.

Channels

2 channels · grouped by how Snag grows
  • Create Demand

    · 1 mention
    “Specifically what we did is we ran UGC campaigns at scale and then turned those creatives into paid ads. ... then you run paid ads on that specific TikTok video. ... So you just gradually scale up the number from there.”
    high
  • Medium Content

    · 1 mention
    “Specifically what we did is we ran UGC campaigns at scale and then turned those creatives into paid ads. So essentially how this works is you reach out to a bunch of creators first and then filter them one by one by interviewing them to see whether they have that virality built in them.”
    high

How 2,667 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Snag’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68%
  • Social media
    58%
  • Search/SEO
    57%
  • Email
    47%
  • Community
    33%
  • Content/Inbound
    31%
  • Partnerships
    30%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    18%
  • Outbound/Sales
    16%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    8%
  • Brand Authenticity
    2%
  • Product expansion
    2%