Investors may have priced in Snapchat's
slowing user growth, which was reported early in 2017 and later confirmed by the company's S - 1.
The company, facing
slowing user growth, has been experimenting under Dorsey, who became interim CEO in July and then CEO in October, to make its website more engaging.
To justify its relatively high valuation and fend off concerns about
slowing user growth, Snap has emphasized how important Snapchat is to its users, how long they spend on the app and the revenue potential of the emerging trend for young people to communicate with video rather than text.
Twitter celebrated its 10th birthday this month, and some are questioning whether it will be able to survive another 10 years at it faces
slow user growth among other issues.
Snap's $ 3.4 billion IPO five months ago was the largest by a U.S. technology company in three years, despite concerns about
slowing user growth and a warning by the company that it might never become profitable.
Blau thinks it's too early to conclude whether Twitter's
slowing user growth signals trouble ahead.
It's
the slowing user growth.
Slower user growth is a risk, he writes in a February 6 report, but he thinks the changes that Twitter has said it would make — improving content discovery, enhancing direct messaging and making it easier for new users to adapt quickly — will boost growth going forward.
But the stock quickly turned lower, with analysts flagging widening losses,
slowing user growth and lack of voting rights for outside investors.
For example, Facebook gets an early heads up about apps that are becoming breakout hits; it can tell which are seeing
slowing user growth; it sees which apps» new features appear to be resonating with their users, and much more.
Unlike Facebook, most companies don't have the luxury of making choices that could
slow user growth, or time spent in - app, as Facebook just remarkably did.
But Snapchat has been seeing
slowing user growth, so its first priority will not be making sure all its users are of age.
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The slowing user growth rate is an indication that Snap is already well penetrated among its main youth audience in core Western markets, and so will have to adapt to broaden its user base either internationally or in new demographic segments,» he told the E-Commerce Times.
in the US and Canada, the company's most profitable markets, and
slowing user growth overall.
Not exact matches
User growth is flat, revenue
growth is
slowing and there have yet to be any new hit features.
Mobile
growth was
slow until Facebook launched its iOS app, and Zuckerberg noticed that
users were seeing twice as many feed stories.
Users grew by more than 50 percent in 2014 and 2015, so
growth has already
slowed.
Yet small businesses, which provide two out of ever three jobs in the U.S., are major
users of our crumbling infrastructure, Mills said, adding that the disrepair is
slowing down
growth.
The biggest red flag for Snap is that its
user growth is
slowing.
A marked slowdown in key active
user metrics has put
slowing revenue
growth in focus.
While overall smartphone market
growth has
slowed in recent years, we continue to see good opportunities for Apple to gain market share in both developed and emerging markets due to its significantly superior
user experience, human - computer interface, and premium branding.
The
growth of new active bitcoin
users is
slowing, which by «Metcalfe's law» indicates that the cryptocurrency's market capitalization will not grow as quickly as it has, some Swiss researchers said.
But compared with the end of the third quarter, Twitter's
user growth is
slowing down.
Some risk factors the company listed in the filing include
slowing growth of its
user base and a decline in demand for its advertising products.
User growth slowed significantly.
Growth in Snapchat's
user base
slowed down last year after Facebook's Instagram copied Snapchat's «stories» feature, which lets
users post short video clips that disappear after 24 hours.
But
user growth is
slowing, and hype over turning historical novels and kung fu epics into hit movies has yet to deliver.
In its first quarterly earnings report released in May, it reported
slowing growth in both revenues and number of
users.
However, there were also high expectations that Snap stock prices would eventually fall, due to the aggressive competition in the industry and a
slow growth in its
user base.
It's S - 1 makes the outlook look even worse though, as Snap's
user growth actually
slowed in the second half of last year compared to the first half.
Growth in the number of Twitter
users continues to
slow and the company is in the red.
In addition, concerns of
slowing economic activity in China have come to the forefront with industry behemoth Alcoa (AA — Free Alcoa Stock Report), the International Monetary Fund, and mining giant Rio Tinto Group (RIO) tempering
growth expectations for the world's biggest aluminum
user.
The move backfired, however, with celebrities who used the app complaining about being shut out of their fans» personal feeds and strong
user and advertiser
growth from late last year
slowing or reversing.
Last year, Facebook told investors that it expected its 2017 revenue
growth to
slow «meaningfully» because the company is running out of places to show
users ads in its core Facebook app.
CFO Dave Wehner first addressed the looming GDPR regulations in the company's opening statement, confirming that Facebook
user growth in Europe may
slow or even decline as the company gets people to agree to updated privacy guidelines required by the laws.
First, the company has to figure out how to monetize it without losing
users or
slowing growth.
TECH2 - May 29 - Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report shows that Internet
user growth has
slowed down below 10 %, while mobile data traffic is growing at a rate of 81 % YoY, including ~ 20 % video content.
The Online Publisher's Association reported in 2004 that dating websites created more revenue than any other paid online content category, as they netted roughly $ 470 million in consumer spending, up from about $ 40 million in 2001.11 Revenue
growth has
slowed in recent years, but the industry continues to maintain a robust base of
users, many of them willing to pay premium fees for access to specialized services.12
With over 1.6 BILLION
users worldwide, Facebook's stats show steady
growth increases and no signs of
slowing down yet!
However, as we already mentioned, the Street's concern on
slower than expected
user growth may outweigh this potential.
Slowing growth rates and less active
users is a concern for a company at this point.
While that shows a
slow in
user growth, it's still five million new players in a matter of three months.
Though for now the platform only lets you make World Lenses and not selfie masks, more AR toys will give Snapchat a much - needed boost to sharing and viewing at a time when
user growth has
slowed to a trickle in the face of Instagram's competition.
That led Facebook to show fewer viral videos, which in turn contributed to a 700,000
user decrease in U.S. and Canada daily active
users — its first decline ever anywhere — and Facebook's
slowest DAU
growth rate it's ever reported.
That's a sizeable
slow down, and the lowest quarter - over-quarter percentage daily
user growth ever reported by the company.
Even if Facebook hadn't lost the 700,000 daily
users in the U.S. and Canada, the company would still have had the
slowest quarter - over-quarter percentage daily
user growth ever, at 2.24 percent.
At The WSJ reported last August, Facebook could tell that Instagram's launch of Stories — a Snapchat - like feature — was working to
slow Snapchat's
user growth, before the company itself even publicly disclosed this fact.
Data on mobile app usage has helped Facebook better compete with rivals like Snapchat — like when it saw how Instagram's launch of a Stories - like feature was working to
slow down Snapchat's
user growth, for instance.
«Facebook's
user growth in the US has
slowed down and is now about the same as that of internet
users, while News Feed ad prices may be reaching their limit,» said in a release Monica Peart, senior forecasting director.
The share price hovers around $ 14.50, about half its peak after a disappointing Q3 where it lost $ 443 million, revenue fell short, and
user growth slowed to a crawl.