Audience

Snap is a camera company whose flagship application Snapchat, the Spectacles product, and a variety of publisher tools provide brands a unique platform to reach targeted audience segments with engaging and personalized content.

Prerequisites

In order to enable the mParticle integration with Snapchat you will need the account credentials for a Snapchat account. The integration activation process will prompt you to log into your Snapchat account, and once logged in, mParticle will automatically retrieve the credentials that it needs to forward audience data to Snapchat.

Activate Snapchat

1. Select Directory, and click the Snapchat tile.
2. Click Add Snapchat to Setup.
3. Select the Output Audience Integration Type and click Add to Setup.
4. Select the Snapchat output configuration group and click Configure.
5. Click Login to Snapchat - A pop-up window will appear allowing you to enter your account credentials to access your Snapchat account.

6. Enter a Configuration Name.
7. Select your Account Credentials and click Save.
8. Click Accept to authorize mParticle to access your Snapchat account.

9. You can now connect your audiences to Snapchat.

Data Processing Notes

• Minimum - An audience is selectable for targeting in Snapchat as long as it has a minimum of 1000 users.
• Snapchat has a limit of 1000 custom audiences per ad account.

User Identity Mapping

When forwarding audience data to Snapchat, mParticle will send SHA-256 hash of the following identities based on the values of the Connection Settings:

• Emails
• Device IDs (IDFA or Google Advertising ID)
• Phone Numbers (Mobile Telephone Number, Phone Number 2, Phone Number 3, and $mobile reserved user attribute)

Upload Frequency

The Snapchat Audience Integration uses Bulk Forwarding. Bulk Forwarding means that, instead of uploading updates to an audience in real time, mParticle compiles updates into a queue until either a given amount of time has passed since the last upload, or until a certain number of updates are waiting to be sent.

By default, mParticle uploads to Snapchat whenever at least one of the following conditions is met:

• 3 hours have passed since the last update.
• At least 500000 messages are in the queue.

Upload frequency can sometimes be adjusted. Reach out to your mParticle Customer Success Manager if you need to discuss upload frequency.

Deleting an Audience

mParticle doesn’t delete the downstream audience when you delete an audience in mParticle.

Connection Settings

Setting Name	Data Type	Default Value	Description
Forward Emails	bool	True	If enabled, and the user’s e-mail address is available, the SHA-256 hash of that e-mail address will be added to the audience ”<Audience Name> (Email)”
Forward Device IDs	bool	True	If enabled, mParticle will forward the SHA-256 hash of that users’ device IDs (IDFA for Apple OS or Google Advertising ID) to the audience ”<Audience Name> (Device Id)“.
Forward Phone Numbers	bool	False	If enabled, and any of the user’s phone numbers are available, the SHA-256 hash of those phone numbers will be added to the audience ”<Audience Name> (Phone)”