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Snapchat Discover raises editorial standard
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Snapchat Discover has updated its editorial guidelines to weed out...
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Snapchat is reportedly seeking $200 million commitments from ad agencies —...
As Snap Inc. accelerates towards its IPO, the company is reportedly meeting with ad agencies to seek huge commitments of their clients' ad spend for 2017.Snap chief strategy officer Imran Khan and...
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Snapchat is chasing big league ad deals
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Snapchat’s parent company Snap is in talks with the media-buying arms of...
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Facebook tries 'Stories' in its app (FB)
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence "Digital Media Briefing" subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here.Facebook has started testing the ephemeral Stories format in its main...
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Here's what Snap CEO Evan Spiegel earned last year — including the cost of...
Snap Inc. CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel had a big haul in 2016.Snap made its IPO filing public on Thursday, revealing that it generates over $400 million in annual sales and has an average of 158...
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Snap lost $514 million last year and warns that it 'may never be profitable'...
Snapchat parent company Snap Inc. posted a net loss of $514.6 million in 2016, according to the initial public offering prospectus it filed on Thursday.The company's losses have been widening in recent...
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Snap is asking investors to put a $25 billion valuation on 2 people
Snapchat parent company Snap filed for IPO today— and if one thing is clear, it's just how much the startup and its potential $25 billion valuation depend on cofounders Evan Spiegel and Robert...
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Snap says Apple is a competitor (AAPL, SNAP)
Snap is a social media startup with just over 1800 employees. Apple is the world's most valuable company, with over 80,000 US workers.But Snap still sees the iPhone company as a competitor. In an SEC...
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How Snapchat's first investor found Snapchat when it had less than 100,000...
Snapchat just filed its paperwork to go public. And its 26-year-old CEO isn't the only one who's about to get paid.Lightspeed Ventures was the first venture capital firm to invest in Snapchat, and it...
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A former Wall Street analyst made a $145 million trade of a lifetime to join...
Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. has set in motion what could be the biggest tech flotation in years. The filing for its initial public offering revealed the compensation of Imran Khan, a former...
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Snapchat loaned its founder $15 million last year and he paid it back in 7...
Now that Snap has published details of its business operations as part of its plans to become a public company, we are learning all sorts of things about the company and its 26-year-old founder CEO,...
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Snapchat is confusing, so here's how the company is teaching older investors...
Snap's main product, Snapchat, has a reputation for being difficult to use, especially if you're not part of its target market of teens and young millennials. But since it's asking investors who are...
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13 charts that tell you everything you need to know about Snap ahead of its...
Snapchat parent company Snap has finally filed for its long-awaited IPO, planning to raising $3 billion at a valuation of $25 billion.The $3 billion number is a placeholder amount and certain to change...
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Snapchat paid its third cofounder $158 million in cash to disappear (SNAP)
Snap cofounders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy will become billionaires overnight when their company goes public at a potential $25 billion valuation.One person who will not share in their glory is...
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Analyst: There's one really troubling thing about Snap's business right now...
Snap just released its prospectus for its IPO. The company is expected to list shares in March and fetch a valuation of $25 billion, sources say.The big question for investors is, will Snap be another...
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Snapchat blames its slower user growth on 'technical issues' in its product...
New products and features are intended to boost growth. But in Snapchat's case, the company claims its new products have had the opposite effect.The company says the slowdown in user growth it suffered...
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Here are all the key charts and images you need to see from Snap's $3 billion...
It finally happened. Snapchat's parent company Snap, Inc. filed for a $3 billion initial public offering on Thursday, offering the world a highly-anticipated look inside the secretive startup's...
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Snapchat cites its scattered beachfront offices as a risk to employee morale
Life by the beach is often a selling point when it comes to working at Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat.In its early days, Snapchat moved from Evan Spiegel's dad's house to a beach bungalow....
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Snapchat growth slowed significantly after the launch of Instagram Stories
Snapchat seems to have hit a bit of a wall. In early 2016, Snap was unstoppable. Between the fourth quarter of 2015 and the third quarter of 2016, the service added 46 million average daily active...
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Snapchat cited Brexit as a potential risk to investors in its IPO filing
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, cited Brexit as a potential risk for anyone considering buying stock in its business when it filed for a $3 billion (£2.4 billion) IPO on Thursday.The secretive...
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