If that’s the case, you’re not alone, with the app now reportedly as much as 10 million each day lively customers, rising from simply 10,000 slightly over a 12 months in the past.

The trending app of the second, BeReal sends out a immediate to all customers at a random time every day, which asks folks to share a photograph of what they’re doing, proper there after which, with a 2-minute time restrict to submit an replace.

The app is being touted because the anti-Instagram, with the concentrate on actual, unedited on a regular basis life, versus airbrushed, polished IG life-style scenes.

As described by BeReal:

“No filters. No followers. Simply pals, sharing with one another. On BeReal, you uncover your pals’ actual lives and get nearer to them.”

That strategy is clearly resonating, a lot in order that different apps are actually seeking to replicate its core instruments, with Instagram presently engaged on a brand new ‘Candid’ function which seems to be similar to the BeReal UI.

It’s attention-grabbing to notice the expansion of the app, and the recognition of its ‘actual life’ strategy, which exhibits that folks might nicely have had sufficient of unrealistic depictions of individuals’s chosen persona and picture on-line.

Which is a key level of observe – if you’re folks’s social media accounts, you’re primarily viewing a spotlight reel of their life, which excludes the lows and negatives, and accentuates what that individual desires you to see. That may result in adverse self-evaluation, and subsequent psychological well being impacts. However with the most well-liked celebrities sharing overly airbrushed, hyper-real pictures of themselves on-line, that then results in new tendencies in illustration, and showcasing your superb picture.

You’ll be able to see, then, why BeReal is gaining traction, with these quick, on a regular basis pictures offering a extra relatable illustration of actual life, which might truly assist to construct neighborhood and connection, versus followings on-line.

However are there model and advertising alternatives within the app?

Some manufacturers are experimenting with BeReal, like Chipotle, which has been utilizing the app to share unique promotional codes.

As defined by Quick Firm:

“When Chipotle joined BeReal in April (one of many first main manufacturers to take action), it shared reusable promo codes in its posts for per week. The primary 100 folks to make use of the promo would obtain a free entree. These codes had been usually redeemed in lower than a minute.”

That, after all, may very well be novelty worth, nevertheless it’s an attention-grabbing use of the format to entice engagement, which may level to potential advertising approaches through artistic use instances.

Possibly, customers will likely be open to such, in the event that they don’t intrude an excessive amount of on the consumer expertise, and it may very well be a great way to reinforce connection and neighborhood.

Different manufacturers are utilizing the app to supply behind-the-scenes content material, and insights into how they go about their enterprise, whereas some are additionally testing out variable approaches to product previews and affords, based mostly on BeReal’s restricted time window strategy.

There are little doubt artistic concerns right here – and at 10 million customers, and rising, you may guess that extra manufacturers are paying consideration, and are contemplating what they could be capable of do to lean into this steadily rising shift.

It’s price noting that BeReal doesn’t permit formal promoting at this stage, however that may be on the playing cards in future, because the app continues to scale and appears to construct a extra sustainable enterprise mannequin.

However then once more, a bigger concern is that BeReal’s core attraction could be very restricted, and that it may simply be replicated by different apps.

Once more, Instagram is already doing this, and you may count on different apps to comply with go well with, as they work to dilute competitor differentiation, and cease their customers from downloading one other app.

That strategy, whether or not you prefer it or not, has confirmed efficient, and as BeReal turns into extra of a competitor for consideration, extra apps are going to try to use their scale to blunt the platform earlier than it will get too huge.

It stays to be seen whether or not BeReal can turn into a really important competitor within the house, however 10 million customers is important, and it’s price, in any case, contemplating the way it may match right into a extra artistic advertising strategy, as an experiment shifting ahead.