How to make a custom Snapchat filter for your next trip
The INSIDER Summary:On-demand geofilters can be purchased by businesses or individuals for branded events or spaces.Community geofilters can also be submitted by any user to highlight landmarks,...
View ArticleTHE DISRUPTION OF MOBILE VIDEO: How Facebook and Snapchat are reaping the...
Millennials are spending more time than ever watching short-form video content on their mobile devices, and players like Facebook and Snapchat are reaping the benefits.These platforms — which capture...
View ArticleTeens still love Snapchat more than Facebook, but Instagram isn't far behind
Snapchat continues to be the fastest growing social network among teens, according to a new survey by Piper Jaffray.The survey, which polled 10,000 teens with an average age of 16 across 46 U.S....
View ArticleSnapchat just changed how you watch stories — but there's a way to autoplay...
Snapchat recently made a big change to how it plays back stories in its app.You used to be able to tap the most recent story in your feed and watch all of them in a row. Each story autoplayed into the...
View ArticleHere's how Snapchat has changed its company mission ahead of its IPO
Last summer, Evan Spiegel sat in a dimly lit room for four minutes, flipping through a notebook filled with drawings trying to explain what Snapchat is. "It's three screens: Snap, Chat, and Watch," he...
View ArticleSnapchat is luring in more UK advertisers
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Snap’s general manager in the UK, Claire Valoti, made her first public...
View ArticleFacebook is letting more people use its Snapchat clone in Messenger
Facebook continues to broaden its test of a Snapchat-like redesign in the Messenger app.The feature, which is called Messenger Day, mimics Snapchat's Story functionality by letting people candidly...
View ArticleSnapchat is reportedly planning a big payday for its publisher partners
Snapchat, the company now known as Snap, is planning to change the way it compensates the publishers that appear on the Discover content section, according to a report from Recode's Peter Kafka.At the...
View ArticleSnapchat flips the revenue script on publishers
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Snapchat wants to end ad-share deals with Discover media partners and...
View ArticleGet ready for Snapchat to feel a lot more like TV
Snapchat says it’s now a camera company — with its forthcoming camera-glasses and its hundreds of millions of smartphone-bearing teen devotees reinventing the way we take photos.But the company is also...
View ArticleSnapchat’s sponsored lenses are making the company a lot of money
As all good Snapchat users know, the app’s lenses are nothing short of extraordinary.With just a tap of the screen, Snapchat will transform your selfie into something instantly hotter, cuter, wittier....
View ArticleSnapchat aims to raise $4 billion when it IPOs next year
Snapchat's parent company, Snap Inc., is aiming to raise "as much as $4 billion" when it goes public early next year, according to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg's Alex Barinka and Sarah Frier.A...
View ArticleFacebook is copying Snapchat again (FB)
Facebook is taking another page out of Snapchat's playbook.On Thursday the social network announced selfie filters for live video, which will initially be themed for Halloween. The new feature will be...
View ArticleThis is Facebook's most aggressive attack on Snapchat yet (FB)
Facebook's full assault on Snapchat has begun.On Friday, Facebook announced a completely revamped camera interface in its main app that can send goofy selfies that disappear after 24 hours.The test,...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg has a new battle cry to fight Snapchat: 'The camera is the...
If you can't buy them, copy them.That's the approach Facebook seems to have decided on for Snapchat, the fast-growing app Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy in 2013 for around $3 billion, and which is now...
View ArticleHow to make your own personalized Snapchat geofilter
Snapchat allows users to create their own geofilters for as little as $5. Here's how the submission process works.Follow BI Video: On TwitterJoin the conversation about this story »
View ArticleWhy asking job candidates how they overcame failure is the wrong question,...
It's fairly normal to get asked in a job interview about a time you failed and had to overcome a weakness.The focus on weaknesses, however, isn't always the best way to find a candidate for a job,...
View ArticleIf you think it's crazy that Snapchat might go public at a $40 billion...
Snapchat wants to go public in the first half of 2017. Its valuation, Bloomberg reports, could be up to $40 billion.If you consider Snapchat's business today, that seems ludicrous.Snapchat, which...
View ArticleThe creators of Vine have a weird new app that's backed by Snapchat's first...
Two of the founders behind ill-fated Vine are back with a quirky new app for live video called Hype. And they've already managed to attract the backing of Snapchat's first investor: Jeremy Liew of...
View ArticleHollywood is going to reboot 'Starship Troopers' — here are 9 things the...
When it released in 1997, "Starship Troopers" had pretty much everything you could want from a satirical science-fiction action flick.There's the over-the-top action and the cheesy dialogue with gems...
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