Well, almost all of us know about the Geofilters in Snapchat. You will be amazed to know that they are one of the best ways to promote your business or your upcoming event. Yes, you heard it right. There are numerous Snapchat on-demand Geofilters, which will help you to customize your filters.
To be precise, those filters will be based on your geographical location. Therefore, here we are about to discuss two types of Snapchat on-demand filters. Besides, we will also be going to explore numerous ways of using Geofilters, which will help you in the field of marketing.
A comprehensive discussion about on-demand Geofilters as well as business
If you explore the Snapchat, you will find out that there are two types of on-demand Geofilters. The first one is crafted for people and the next one is crafted for the businesses. Also, you have to make sure that the area of the on-demand Geofilters should be between 20000 and 5 million square feet. Also, you cannot make them active for more than 30 days.
If you go through the submission guidelines of Snapchat, you will find numerous rules. The first and most important rule that you have to come across is that the Geofilters for people cannot include any branding, business names, business marks, business logos or any other promotional content. You can only use those filters for graduations, parties, or any different types of celebrations.
On the other hand, On-demand Geofilters for the businesses is allowed for branding, business names, business marks, business logos, or any other pieces of promotional stuff. However, there are numerous limitations that the user has to follow. For instance, you cannot use the photographs of people, phone numbers, URLs, drug-related contents, emails, or any other content, which you don’t have the authority to access.
Any content that you are uploading for the On-Demand Geofilters must also be compatible with the advertising policies, terms of services, Privacy policies, community guidelines, On-Demand Geofilters terms and conditions.
How can you create an On-Demand Geofilters for Snapchat?
Well, to create the personalized Geofilters, you can make use of the Snapchat Geofilter Maker. You can use any of the makers and can come up with an attractive Geofilter for your Snapchat.
Also, you can follow specific steps if you want to come up with an attractive filter. So, let us have a look at the levels that you have to follow. If you can follow those steps precisely, no one can stop you from crafting am attractive Snapchat filter.
- In the first step, you have to log in to your Snapchat account. After that, you will get an option to download the templates for your On-Demand Geofilters. During that time, you have to go through submissions guidelines. Well, we would suggest you go through instructions so that you don’t have to face any issues in future
- In the next step, you have to add a shape button. With the help of that shape button, you can incorporate a banner effect.
- In the third step, you can either add a text, or you can add a logo.
- Now, you can download the file in PNG format.
- After that, you have to open the PNG file in GIMP. Next, you have to select the colour of your preference to take care of the white colour of the image.
- In the sixth step, you have to choose the option named ‘Color to Alpha’. It will make the white portion transparent.
- Now, it is time to overwrite the downloaded PNG. Now, you have to create a Geofilter with a transparent PNG background. The size of the file will not be more than 300kb.
- Now, it is the time to upload the file in the Snapchat. While uploading, you will be able to see the preview of the filter.
- Here, now you have to choose the date when you would like your filter to be activated.
- After that, you have to confirm the area where you want the Snapchat users to use your On-Demand Geo-Filter.
- Next, you will be able to draw a Geofence to your location.
- After that, your Geofilter will go to you into review once you entered the details. After your submission, you will get an email confirmation.
- Also, you will receive a mail from Snapchat after they approve your filter.
So, in this way, you can create your Snapchat Geofilter. Also, you can use business filters to promote your business or your brand. So, here are some of the types of business Geofilter.
- Geofilters for brand
- Geofilters for events
- Geofilter for your local business
- Geofilter for services
So, these are some of the Geofilters for your business.