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Instagram Stories
Why it worked
The video leverages a well-known business story of a major company copying a smaller competitor's successful feature, which is a relatable and engaging narrative for many audiences. The use of historical context and clear data points on user growth makes the information compelling.
Summary
This video explains how Instagram copied Snapchat's features, starting with Poke in 2012 and then Stories in 2016. Despite initial failures, Instagram Stories eventually surpassed Snapchat in user numbers.
Structure
- 1Zuckerberg's $3 billion offer for Snapchat rejected
- 2Facebook's failed attempts to clone Snapchat
- 3Instagram launches Stories, a direct clone of Snapchat's feature
- 4Stories achieves massive user growth, eclipsing Snapchat
- 5Call to action to watch a full video about Snapchat
Product placement
The video discusses and shows examples of Instagram Stories, highlighting its feature set and user growth, and how it was a direct copy of Snapchat's features.
Call to action
check out the link in my bio or in the comments below
On-screen text
Zuckerberg offers $3
$3 Billion
billion to buy Snapchat.
Spiegel, in return says nah.
trading some short term gain
for losing my life's work.
Well, it's just not worth it.
Zuckerberg says cool.
Well, I have an alternative
to making a deal with you,
I'm going to copy your entire app
and launch it, and I'm
going to call it Poke.
launch their version
of Snapchat Poke in 2012.
It would flop.
They would launch
another clone in 2014
that would flop.
The third time was the charm,
TC TechCrunch
Instagram launches "Stories," a
Snapchatty feature for imperfect sharing
and Instagram launched
a basically pixel
by pixel clone of Snapchat's picture
sharing feature.
In two months, Instagram
Stories would hit over
100 million users.
By 2017, it would hit over 200
million, eclipsing
the size of Snapchat.
I did a full video about Snapchat
check out the link in my bio
or in the comments below