Snapchat Spotlight: Short Video Creation | Ready to beat Tiktok & Instagram reels with its amazing & differential Features | Earn in Dollars |

Snap Inc. has launched Spotlight in India, Mexico and Brazil, nearly four months after the short-video platform’s debut in 11 countries including US.

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The feature, which claims to have more than 100 million users as of January this year, surfaces 60-sec videos from its users in a dedicated vertical feed within the Snapchat app. The feed becomes more personalised, based on a user’s preferences and favourites.

Short-video space has boomed in India. After the ban of TikTok in June last year, dozens of short-video apps emerged —including Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, MX Player's TakaTak, Dailyhunt's Josh and Sharechat's Moj—filling the trend left behind by the Chinese platform i.e Tiktok in India.

Spotlight is available within the Snapchat app and is an entertainment platform, which contains user-generated content.

Snap Inc, the company’s answer to short video platforms such as TikTok and Instagram Reels, is now available in India. Spotlight is available within the Snapchat app and is an entertainment platform, which contains user-generated content. Snapchat claims that Spotlight has had over 100 million users in January.

Spotlight lets users post their most interesting and funny Snaps or short videos on the platform and these can then be viewed by other users on the platform.

On snapchat, people can enjoy sharing their snaps to everybody or limit it to be seen by its friends only.

The other unique aspect about Spotlight is that Snap will pay creators whose content goes viral on the platform.

It has a $1 million a day programme, which will also be made available in India. However, Snapchat users must be 16 or older, and where applicable, obtain parental consent to earn in order to be eligible for earnings.

The users would create the content using Snapchat’s camera tools & filters but they are allowed to post it some other platforms as well such as platforms like Youtube as well as Facebook.

What differentiates Spotlight from TikTok or Instagram Reels is that there are no public comments. Snap says this is done to protect users and ensure they don’t face harassment on the platform. Further, the lack of comments also means that creators will be spared from bullying or any other kind of harassment, which has become all too common on many platforms.

Here comes the most important question,

How to submit a snap to Spotlight:

1. In the Snapchat app, tap the Camera tab to get ready to make a snap.

2. Tap and hold the record icon to create your video snap. Release the button when you're done recording and then add any edits or effects as you normally would.

3. Tap "Send To" at the bottom right of the screen.

4. Tap "Spotlight" at the top of the page. You might need to agree to Spotlight terms by tapping "Okay."

5. Snapchat recommends adding a topic to the snap. Tap "#AddTopic" to set your topic.

6. At the bottom of the page, tap "Send."

How to save or delete a Spotlight snap:

1. Tap your profile avatar at the top left of the Snapchat screen.

2. Tap on "Spotlight & Snap Map" so you can see your list of Spotlight snaps.

3. Tap and hold the snap you are interested in.

4. In the pop-up menu, choose the option you want - tap "Delete Snap," "Save Snap," or "Send Snap."

You can delete or save any spotlight snap.

How to check the submittion of your Snapchat Spotlight:

1. Tap your profile avatar at the top left of the Snapchat screen.

2. If it's not already expanded, tap "Spotlight & Snap Map" so you can see your list of Spotlight snaps.

3. You should see the current status of your submission - if it has been accepted to Spotlight, it will say "Live."

Note: every snapchat spotlight created by you may not be submitted on the Spotlight page; your Snap will be reviewed by a moderator before the snap potentially appears on Spotlight.

Please note before creating any Snap on Spotlight:

1. Snapchat Spotlight must be a video. Still images not accepted.

2. All videos should be vertical and can be upto 60 Seconds max.

3. You should compulsarily add hastag topic, when you submit the snap on Spotlight.

4. Don't try to promote any product or services on your snapchat spotlight video.

5. Snapchat wants it's spotlight videos to be unique and best ever. So you should be creative and imaginative. Add tools like snapchat sounds, snapchat lenses and gifs.

6. Only send original content created by you. No need to send copyright videos of someone.

Making and Submitting videos on Spotlight is much safer than any other Short-Video Creation Application.

Profiles on Spotlight will be private by default, which ensures that the username never goes through with that post, unless a user explicitly makes it public profile. Once a user goes for a public profile, they can start to gain a following as well.

“This ability to contribute without your username being shown is so important because it takes people that otherwise would never have contributed and gives them a space where they feel incredibly safe to create without worrying,” the spokesperson added.

For content to get money from Snap, it has to be original. The spokesperson specified that one cannot just go to YouTube and copy some video off and re-upload it to Spotlight and then start to earn money. When a user’s video on Spotlight reaches a certain threshold where it is eligible for payment, they will get a message from Team Snapchat for payment.

Snap also says that every single piece of content that is posted to Spotlight is seen and moderated by both a human and a machine, before it is shown to a large number of people. The human moderators have to make sure that the content abides by Snap’s guidelines and also by the local rules and regulations.

Conclusion:

Snapchat Spotlight is safe and going on to be trending very fast now-a-days. As it already has many users on snapchat sending snaps to each other, creating stories and posting it with friends and public as well. People love snapchat filters a lot. Snapchat allows to use its filters, it's added songs or gifs on the videos created by you. It also allows you to share this same video to other Short-Video Platforms as well. It provides privacy by not sharing your personal profile to anyone. It doesn't allow comment section for the users to comment to protect the creators from public harrasment and bad comments that will lower down their confidence.

It also provides an opportunity for the creators to earn money from their new creation & imagination on Spotlight videos i.e to earn $ 1 million a day.

So what are you waiting for, if you are imaginative and creative and good in making short-videos and ready to entertain as many people as possible so try to grab this opportunity provided by Snapchat Inc's Spotlight.

Thank You.