
Snapchat’s @-tagging test could help brands & influencers build their follower numbers
Snapchat’s latest feature is giving users — along with influencers and brands — a new way to build on their follower numbers by adding...

Pew report: 74% of Facebook users visit the site daily & 51% go several times a day
Pew Research has released a new report summarizing social media usage and found, of the 68 percent of Americans using Facebook, 74...

Report: Just under 400 brands ran video ads on Snapchat Discover channels in past 3 months
Just 397 brands bought video ads on Snapchat Discover channels — which feature content from publishers such as ESPN, Cosmopolitan and...

Snapchat rolls out analytics tool to win back the influencers it has lost to Instagram
Snapchat is finally giving influencers the analytics tool that they have been clamoring for, and that may bring them back to using its...

Snapchat opens its advertising API to everyone
Snapchat is going all in on automation. More than a year after Snapchat’s parent company Snap officially launched its advertising API for...

Snap sales boss Jeff Lucas steps down as its programmatic sales ramp up
Snap is losing its global sales boss with the big-time traditional media pedigree at a time when Snapchat’s parent company doesn’t...

Snap offers free credits to brands running vertical video ads on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, els
In Snap’s latest earnings report released earlier this week, Snapchat’s parent company showed signs that it’s been able to withstand the...

Snap back: How Snapchat’s ad automation boosted its business in Q4 2017
The equation is almost too simple: If Snapchat can make it easier for people to use its app, more people will use it. And if more people...

Twitter loses its AR, VR head Alessandro Sabatelli
Twitter has lost its head of augmented reality and virtual reality. Twitter’s director of AR and VR, Alessandro Sabatelli, is leaving the...

Snapchat opens in-app shopping section with Snap Store
Snap is going to try to sell people physical goods again, after the boom-then-bust of its video-recording sunglasses, Spectacles. But...

Snapchat will let non-users see Stories outside its app but won’t show them ads (yet)
Snapchat is pulling a Twitter in a bid to accelerate its Twitter-esque user growth. Snapchat will enable people to share and view its...

Snapchat updates app install ads with quicker deep links, deeper analytics
A year ago Snapchat enabled app advertisers to attach deep links to their campaigns, so people could swipe up on an ad and open to a...

Report shows Snapchat’s newer features falling flat but messaging more popular than ever
Snapchat rose to popularity thanks to the secretive nature of its photo messaging, and it has kept that theme constant when providing...

How marketers will take their social spend more seriously in 2018
Social media is finally evolving from shiny new toy to a serious tool for marketers, thanks to seeds planted in 2017 that more marketers...

How Snapchat can win back the influencers it has lost to Instagram
Snapchat’s years of neglecting influencers have caught up to the company. At one time, those influencers offered an opportunity for...

Snapchat will let advertisers animate their Sponsored Filters
Snapchat is making one of its splashiest ad formats more attention-grabbing in an effort to grab more brand advertisers’ ad dollars....

2017: The year in social media
Social media scrutiny Social media has been in the spotlight for years; in 2017 it went under the microscope. Scrutiny surrounding...

Snapchat’s Lens Studio app opens augmented-reality format to everyone, including self-serve advertis
Snapchat’s Lens Studio desktop app Snapchat’s Lenses have largely been responsible for popularizing augmented reality. Since the mobile...

Instagram’s standalone Direct app can be its version of Snapchat’s new friends-only tab
A week after Snapchat said that it was separating the social and media sides of its service, Instagram is making a similar move....
























