
Snapchat releases Snap Publisher: self-serve ad creation tool converts horizontal videos, websites i
One of the knocks against advertising on Snapchat is that it’s hard to make ads for Snapchat. The mobile app’s insistence on vertical...

Snapchat launches new features, including Paperclips for links within Snaps
Snapchat is taking a step that Instagram simply hasn’t, with new features on both its iOS and Android app that include allowing marketers...

2017: The year in social marketing so far
The social marketing landscape shifts so quickly that a half-year review isn’t so much ridiculous as almost requisite, if only to keep...

Snapchat’s Snap Map plots Stories by location but not ads (yet)
Snapchat is giving people a better look at what’s going on in the world but is not including a place for advertisers (at least not yet)....

Instagram Stories daily audience hits 250M, adds live Story replays
Every day, more than 250 million people view Instagram Stories, the Facebook-owned photo-and-video sharing app announced on Tuesday....

A guide to Snapchat advertising as self-serve tool officially opens
A month after announcing a self-serve tool for any advertiser to buy its standard vertical video ads like they buy books on Amazon,...

Snap acquires Placed to better measure in-app ads to in-store sales
Snapchat’s parent company, Snap, has acquired location analytics firm Placed, a company spokesperson said on Monday, confirming a...

Instagram’s Location, Hashtag Stories are its spin on Snapchat’s search-driven Stories
It’s a weekday, so Instagram is copying Snapchat again. Roughly two months after Snapchat began showing algorithmically curated Stories...

Snapchat’s Sponsored Lenses can now be targeted with guarantees, work as World Lenses
Less than a week after a drab earnings report, Snapchat is polishing its ad product portfolio and making a shiny new addition. Snapchat...

Snap bought a company in March and product updates hurt user growth, per new filing
A day after posting a disappointing first-quarter earnings report, Snap Inc. released a regulatory filing that offered more details about...

What marketers should know about Snap’s Q1 2017 earnings report
Only two months old as a public company, Snap Inc. is already experiencing growing pains, except the pains are from not growing enough....

Snapchat copies Instagram’s Boomerang with looping snaps
Now it’s Snapchat’s turn to do the copying. On Tuesday, Snapchat rolled out its version of Instagram’s Boomerang feature that plays...

Snapchat rolls out self-serve platform for its vertical video ads
Snapchat is officially wide open for business. On Thursday, Snapchat debuted a self-serve tool to buy ads on the mobile app that makes it...

Snap Ads Max Reach is Snapchat’s version of the home page takeover
Snapchat has quietly been pitching advertisers on a way to reach everyone in the US who views a Story on a given day. Earlier this year,...

Snapchat starts selling Sponsored Geofilter ads thru its API as travel, event seasons kick off
Snapchat is making it easier for brands to buy Sponsored Geofilter ads that people can add atop the photos and videos they share on the...

Hands on with Facebook’s AR Studio to create Snapchat-like camera effects
Facebook ramped up its run at Snapchat this week. The company even raced ahead of its rival by opening up its new Camera Effects Platform...

Report: Digital ad growth slows to single digits for first time
Digital growth is showing signs of slowing. Among the agencies measured by advertising intelligence firm Standard Media Index, digital ad...

Instagram Stories tops 200M daily users, now bigger than Snapchat
Eight months after Instagram copied Snapchat’s Stories, Instagram’s clone is officially bigger than Snapchat. Every day, more than 200...

Snapchat will tell brands how many people saw their ads, then visited their stores, restaurants
In the growing rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc., Facebook’s strategy seems to be copying Snapchat’s...
























