The Ultimate Guide to Snapchat Questions

Though some platforms like Tiktok and Instagram have taken centre stage this year, Snapchat is still a relevant platform with an enthusiastic audience. There are still 238 million daily active users, and the average user spends about 30 minutes a day on the platform.

Businesses who are trying to reach young audiences (particularly Millennials, Gen Z and younger) should consider staying active on the platform and leveraging all of its latest and greatest features to keep users engaged.  

For the past year, one of the biggest features on Snapchat was the ability to ask questions or to answer them thanks to a third-party tool that allowed users to submit anonymous responses to the brand. 

In this post, we’re going to look at how you can use Snapchat Story questions for businesses, whether you want to promote your own brand or your clients’. 

What Are Snapchat Story Questions? 

Snapchat Stories can be made up of multiple Snaps, which can be images or very short videos that are available for 24 hours after posting. 

Over the last year, a recent trend has emerged where you can ask a sticker to your Story that lets users send an anonymous message to your account. You can respond to these comments in your own Stories. 

You can either ask your followers questions, or encourage them to ask you anything that you can respond to directly in your Stories.  

How to Use Yolo to Ask & Answer Snapchat Stories Questions 

After Yolo is set up and synced to your Snapchat account, it’s a straightforward process. 

Change the text in the “question” box to whatever you want your audience to respond to. You can ask them a question, or you can prompt them to ask you something. You have the option to be specific (“what do you want to know about our new product line?”) to more generic (“ask us anything!”). 

You can change the colour of the text box, so consider what image you’ll use in the background. Once you’re happy with the question, click the yellow “Share” button in the bottom right corner.

This will pull up your text box. You can then add an image or video to the background, and add all of your standard Story elements. It never hurts to use arrows to encourage users to answer questions or to pay attention to pay parts of the video. 

Publish it to your Stories, and then wait! Users can swipe up and then enter a response. When you receive anonymous responses, you’ll get a notification and you can view it in the Yolo app.

You can respond directly, and then publish the reply in a new Story. You can add another image or video in the background with your response. 

3 Great Use Cases for Stories Questions 

Snapchat Story questions are an excellent way to increase on-platform engagement and to establish relationships with your target audience.

There are a few great use cases that you may want to consider, including the following:

Final Thoughts: Story Questions Best Practices 

When you’re using YOLO to garner anonymous responses to prompts that you put out into the world, it’s important to know a few best practices to help you get the results you want! Keep the following in mind:

Story questions truly are an exceptional way to engage your audience, and you can use the same prompts that you're using with Instagram's Questions sticker if you start to run out of ideas! Take advantage of the cross-platform engagement to reach more members of your target audience.