Snap Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

Second quarter revenue increased 16% year-over-year to $1,237 million

Daily Active Users increased 9% year-over-year to 432 million

Net loss improved 34% year-over-year to $249 million

Adjusted EBITDA improved 243% year-over-year to $55 million

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2024.

“Our community grew to reach more than 850 million monthly active users in Q2, with more than 11 million Snapchat+ subscribers,” said Evan Spiegel, CEO. “We continued to scale our advertising platform with active advertisers more than doubling year-over-year. We are looking forward to hosting our upcoming Snap Partner Summit on September 17th, where we will announce new updates to our service.”

Q2 2024 Financial Summary

• Revenue was $1,237 million, compared to $1,068 million in the prior year, an increase of 16% year-over-year.
• Net loss was $249 million, compared to $377 million in the prior year.
• Adjusted EBITDA was $55 million, compared to $(38) million in the prior year.
• Operating cash flow was $(21) million, compared to $(82) million in the prior year.
• Free Cash Flow was $(73) million, compared to $(119) million in the prior year.
• On a trailing twelve month basis, operating cash flow was $244 million and Free Cash Flow was $15 million.

Q2 2024 Summary & Key Highlights

We grew and deepened our engagement with our community:

• DAUs were 432 million in Q2 2024, an increase of 36 million, or 9% year-over-year.
• Q2 marked an important milestone for Snap, as we reached more than 850 million monthly active users (MAU).
• We recently announced new communication features for Snapchatters to stay connected with friends and family and the world, including editable chats, Map emoji reactions, and My AI reminders.
• We renewed our longstanding sports partnerships with the NFL, NBA, and WNBA, to provide official content across Stories and Spotlight for our community.
• We announced Snap Nation, an exciting evolution of our partnership with Live Nation that gives Snapchatters access to tour and festival experiences that only Live Nation can offer.
• We partnered with Ensemble, a branded entertainment company founded by Issa Rae to help brands produce content with our 523 creator accelerator program that is focused on growing and building diverse voices.
• We selected members of our first-ever Council for Digital Well-Being, in which we’ll hear from teens on their perspectives on the states of their digital lives today and hopes for the future.
• We announced several new features to further safeguard our community from online harms, including expanded in-app warnings, enhanced friending protections, simplified location-sharing, and blocking improvements.

We are focused on accelerating and diversifying our revenue growth:

• Ongoing momentum with our direct response products and growth in small- and medium-size businesses (SMB) contributed to total active advertisers more than doubling year-over-year in Q2.
• Our improvements to Conversions API (CAPI), improved collaboration with advertisers, and growth in partner integrations resulted in CAPI integrations growing over 300% year-over-year.
• Snapchat+ reached 11 million subscribers in Q2.
• We announced AR Extensions, which enable advertisers to integrate AR Lenses and Filters directly into all Snapchat ad formats.
• We announced that brands can now leverage Generative AI technology such as our ML Face Effects to create custom sponsored AR Lenses.
• To help entertainment advertisers understand Snapchat’s impact on theatrical releases, we partnered with Samba TV, which found that exposure to campaigns on Snapchat delivered a 91% lift in ticket sales.
• We launched the Snap Advanced Partner Program, offering qualifying agencies and partners the opportunity to work closely with Snapchat to create innovative solutions that build stronger full funnel campaigns and drive results.

We invested in our augmented reality platform:

• We continue to invest in Generative AI models and automation for the creation of ML and AI Lenses, such as our Gen AI lens Scribble World which was viewed over 1 billion times and our 90’s AI lens, which was viewed by more than 20% of US Snapchaters.
• We launched Lens Studio 5.0, which features our new Gen AI Suite that makes Lens Studio easier to use by enabling creators to generate a variety of Lens-ready assets with a prompt and no coding required.
• In partnership with Live Nation and Ocesa, our AR technology enhanced for the first time Tecate Emblema, a major music festival in Mexico City, powered by CameraKit Live.
• Our partnership with OMD and Amplified Intelligence found that Snapchat campaigns that include AR in their mix drive 5x more active attention compared to industry peers.
• We partnered with Cartier on a first-of-its-kind AR experience celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Trinity Collection, allowing Snapchatters to try-on and shop the Classic Trinity Ring.

Q3 2024 Outlook

As we enter Q3, we anticipate continued growth of our global community, and as a result, our Q3 guidance is built on the assumption that DAU will be approximately 441 million in Q3. We are focused on executing against our roadmap to deliver improvements to our advertising platform to drive strong performance for our advertising partners and accelerate topline growth. Our Q3 guidance range for revenue is $1,335 million to $1,375 million, implying year-over-year revenue growth of 12% to 16%. Given the revenue range above, and our investment plans for the quarter ahead, we estimate that Adjusted EBITDA will be between $70 million and $100 million in Q3.

Conference Call Information

Snap Inc. will host a conference call to discuss the results at 2:30 p.m. Pacific / 5:30 p.m. Eastern today. The live audio webcast along with supplemental information will be accessible at investor.snap.com. A recording of the webcast will also be available following the conference call.

Snap Inc. uses its websites (including snap.com and investor.snap.com) as means of disclosing material non-public information and for complying with its disclosure obligation under Regulation FD.

Definitions

Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities, reduced by purchases of property and equipment.

Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards includes common shares outstanding, restricted stock units, restricted stock awards, and outstanding stock options.

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss), excluding interest income; interest expense; other income (expense), net; income tax benefit (expense); depreciation and amortization; stock-based compensation expense; payroll and other tax expense related to stock-based compensation; and certain other items impacting net income (loss) from time to time.

A Daily Active User (DAU) is defined as a registered and logged-in Snapchat user who visits Snapchat through our applications or websites at least once during a defined 24-hour period. We calculate average DAUs for a particular quarter by adding the number of DAUs on each day of that quarter and dividing that sum by the number of days in that quarter.

Average revenue per user (ARPU) is defined as quarterly revenue divided by the average DAUs.

A Monthly Active User (MAU) is defined as a registered and logged-in Snapchat user who visits Snapchat through our applications or websites at least once during the 30-day period ending on the calendar month-end. We calculate average Monthly Active Users for a particular quarter by calculating the average of the MAUs as of each calendar month-end in that quarter.

Note: For adjustments and additional information regarding the non-GAAP financial measures and other items discussed, please see “Non-GAAP Financial Measures,” “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures,” and “Supplemental Financial Information and Business Metrics.”

About Snap Inc.

Snap Inc. is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together. For more information, visit snap.com.

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement our consolidated financial statements, which are prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP, we use certain non-GAAP financial measures, as described below, to understand and evaluate our core operating performance. These non-GAAP financial measures, which may be different than similarly titled measures used by other companies, are presented to enhance investors’ overall understanding of our financial performance and should not be considered a substitute for, or superior to, the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.

We use the non-GAAP financial measure of Free Cash Flow, which is defined as net cash provided by (used in) operating activities, reduced by purchases of property and equipment. We believe Free Cash Flow is an important liquidity measure of the cash that is available, after capital expenditures, for operational expenses and investment in our business and is a key financial indicator used by management. Additionally, we believe that Free Cash Flow is an important measure since we use third-party infrastructure partners to host our services and therefore we do not incur significant capital expenditures to support revenue generating activities. Free Cash Flow is useful to investors as a liquidity measure because it measures our ability to generate or use cash. Once our business needs and obligations are met, cash can be used to maintain a strong balance sheet and invest in future growth.

We use the non-GAAP financial measure of Adjusted EBITDA, which is defined as net income (loss), excluding interest income; interest expense; other income (expense), net; income tax benefit (expense); depreciation and amortization; stock-based compensation expense; payroll and other tax expense related to stock-based compensation; and certain other items impacting net income (loss) from time to time. We believe that Adjusted EBITDA helps identify underlying trends in our business that could otherwise be masked by the effect of the expenses that we exclude in Adjusted EBITDA.

We use the non-GAAP financial measure of non-GAAP net income (loss), which is defined as net income (loss), excluding amortization of intangible assets; stock-based compensation expense; payroll and other tax expense related to stock-based compensation; certain other items impacting net income (loss) from time to time; and related income tax adjustments. Non-GAAP net income (loss) and weighted average diluted shares are then used to calculate non-GAAP diluted net income (loss) per share. Similar to Adjusted EBITDA, we believe these measures help identify underlying trends in our business that could otherwise be masked by the effect of the expenses we exclude in the measure.

We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide useful information about our financial performance, enhance the overall understanding of our past performance and future prospects, and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by our management for financial and operational decision-making. We are presenting these non-GAAP measures to assist investors in seeing our financial performance through the eyes of management, and because we believe that these measures provide an additional tool for investors to use in comparing our core financial performance over multiple periods with other companies in our industry.

For a reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, please see “Reconciliation of GAAP to Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”

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