Sentences with phrase «snapchat just»

Compared to analyst expectations of adding 8 million new users, Snapchat just added 4.5 million users for the quarter ending September.

Cue that inner child because Snapchat just launched a grownup Easter egg hunt with more than a million eggs.

Snapchat just became the latest social media platform to ban advertising for initial coin offerings.

Snapchat just drops users on the Shutter screen, and expects them to know (or figure out) how to swipe to see stories and message threads.

Snapchat just rolled out a big update that gives users the ability to tag friends in Stories and enjoy chaotic group video chats with up to 16 people.

(Snapchat just rolled out its first advertisement, so the business strategy is still very much in the air.)

Even if we don't know the reason that Apple didn't push the bot button, we do know one thing — Apple felt that it must enhance its default messaging app with tools from outsiders, as alternatives like WhatsApp, Messenger, and Snapchat just keep on growing.

It will be interesting to see if Snapchat just manages to keep up with its explosive growth.

Snapchat just made a huge change to become your go - to messaging app (Quartz) Well, this looks somewhat easier, LOL!

For some reason Snapchat just kills my phone battery, but IG stories doesn't.

Plus, Snapchat just launched shoppable snaps — now it's even easier for consumers to buy the products they see featured.

Their latest tool, Instagram Stories, became more popular than Snapchat just one year after going live.

Not exact matches

Just because Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat and Instagram and YouTube and Pinterest and Tumblr exist doesn't mean you necessarily need to be on all of them.»

Snapchat UX is just weird and anxiety causing

The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

Context Cards isn't just a cute new feature on Snapchat.

You see, Spiegel and Murphy were just college students in 2011 when they came up with the idea for Snap, the company formerly known as Snapchat.

And just like Twitter before it, Snapchat had web giants sniffing around, asking about a buyout.

In a press briefing before the launch, a Facebook project manager denied that the new features are meant as a competitive response to Snapchat (SNAP), which just went public and now has a market value of $ 27 billion.

How much money is being poured into consumer software just because of the fear of losing the next Snapchat but eventually investing in another failing social app that ends up shutting down or getting «acquired.»

Just as Snapchat has what it calls «filters» that users can add to their photos and videos — making themselves look like cartoon animals, for example, or producing virtual rainbows that pour out of a person's mouth — Facebook's Camera also has filters, or «lenses.»

It has raised more than $ 30 million to date and even though Snapchat has raised nearly $ 1 billion, it might not want to drop $ 100 million + to buy a company it just wants to test out.

OneOne - described as a «super-secure version of Snapchat» by the founder - was launched just over a week ago and allows users to send messages to each other with no tracking or storing of data.

And that boy just happens to be Evan Spiegel co-founder and CEO of Snapchat.

The parent of Snapchat, which just fell below its IPO price, is the «most overvalued company in the world,» said NYU's Scott Galloway.

They complained about the clunky, «Reply - to - unlock» time suck so much that Facebook nixed the Snapchat - differentiating feature just two months after the app debuted.

Just a couple of years after Snapchat went mainstream, we almost internalized the notion that we can easily have a behind - the - scenes access to any business or celebrity.

«Instead of sitting back, choosing a channel, and watching whatever is on that channel,» Ciosek says, «the under - 30 set opens up Facebook or Snapchat or Twitter and says, «I'm just going to scroll, and whatever comes up that I like, I'm going to enjoy and then I'm going to like it and share it, and I'll see more of that stuff in the future.»

Rebecca Minkoff isn't just a style trendsetter; the brand was one of the first to adopt Snapchat as a marketing platform as well.

But Snapchat recently announced that it will be integrating payments through a partnership with Square, which could turn the app into something larger than just a fun, silly form of entertainment for teenagers.

Its like Snapchat, but not just for pictures.

Marketers must rely on more than just hashtags and emojis to make the most of channels like Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat.

«While Snapchat and Airbnb will grab all the headlines next year, I'll be paying just as much attention to big «boring» equity and investment firms like Vista and Silver Lake who are snapping up promising start - ups, as well as CPG stalwarts like Clorox, Walmart and Procter and Gamble.

To get a sense of just how ethereal some of those visions are, here's how RBC analyst Mark Mahaney described it in his recent note (the ellipsis is his; it doesn't denote missing words): «Profitability... It's something Snapchat does not have currently and something they've highlighted in their [IPO prospectus] that they may never achieve or maintain.»

Snapchat wants more television advertisers to take notice, so it has a number of new figures to show just how addicted its users are.

The app's premise — and Snapchat is just an app, since there is no web interface — is the idea of ephemeral messaging: Once a message, or «snap,» is viewed, it disappears forever.

That's pretty impressive, considering Instagram launched the Snapchat ripoff just eight months ago, but you might be wondering why the Facebook - owned social network would call out the seemingly random number.

In just the first day of 2014, Snapchat and Skype were rudely awakened to the need to improve security measures.

Snapchat has just unveiled its new design, where people can swipe left for friends» snaps and right for editorial content and shows, as well as sponsored posts.

Just as early blogging platforms made everyone a critic, YouTube (followed by Instagram and Snapchat) turned anyone with a smartphone into a video publisher.

When I go to the airport, I just watch people — that's how I discovered Snapchat years ago.»

Just because they circulate 140 - character Tweets or send Snapchats does not mean that they are not interested in deeper, more substantive ideas.

At the moment, Snapchat's daily active users in the U.S. and Canada are just over one third of Facebook's, which has 175 million in the same region.

In fact, just a couple of months earlier Facebook had shocked the world by buying WhatsApp for $ 19 billion; two months before that it had tried to buy Snapchat itself for $ 3 billion.

I'd just published an expert roundup about local SEO and thought I'd try pitching link prospects with a 60 second Snapchat style video.

This pressing need for brands and content marketers to consciously plan for multiple iterations, orientations and context for their content doesn't just apply to Snapchat and vertical video.

Like any marketing campaign, being able to demonstrate success and ROI are paramount, and while Snapchat may not be the easiest to demonstrate ROI with just yet, one metric Brian Honigman touts is the story completion rate.

Having come a long way from its humble beginnings in 2011, Snapchat has transformed into a tool that's no longer proprietary just to smartphone - savvy teens sending scandalous photos — it's now a way for innovative and forward - thinking marketers who want a creative way to reach their audience to do just that.

Actually Snap's intentions have never been hidden — and we recently reported that a test to enable users to buy things online just by swiping up in Snapchat Discover is on the card.

Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress - up.