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It said that more than 120 million Indian Snapchatters watch content across stories and the spotlight with time spent in India on the spotlight more than tripling.
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Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, on Tuesday said it now has over 200 million monthly active 'Snapchatters' in India
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Snap has launched a new business unit that will offer its augmented reality (AR) solutions to retailers and businesses so they can integrate them into their apps.
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According to the Internet-based market research and data analytics firm YouGov, Snapchat's creative lenses, and filters are the number one feature that helps users celebrate festivals and special occasions with loved ones.
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Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has introduced its new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for Snapchat. It is powered by the latest version of OpenAI's GPT technology.
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The multimedia messaging app has launched an Augmented Reality (AR) based kite game for its users
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Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, on Tuesday said it will provide monthly grants of up to $50,000, beginning mid-November, to top sound creators in India that are distributing music on Snapchat.
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Hyderabad: A business management student pursuing his education from a foreign university was arrested by the Hyderabad police for allegedly selling drug laced chocolate bars in the city after marketing it through social media platforms. Rishi Sanjay Mehata (22), a resident of Narsingi, was previously involved in two NDPS cases and was allegedly absconding. The […]
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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of photo-sharing platform Snapchat, has reached a $35 million settlement with the state of Illinois in the US in a class-action lawsuit over illegal user data collection. The lawsuit alleged that Snapchat’s filters and lenses violated the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The company stored “biometric data without […]
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New Delhi: A new survey of American teenagers (ages 13 to 17) by the Pew Research Center has revealed a worrying trend for Mark Zuckerberg-led Facebook as the share of teens who use the social media platform has plummeted from 71 per cent in 2014-15 to 32 per cent as of now. Chinese short-form video platform […]
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New Delhi: Photo-sharing platform Snapchat on Wednesday launched its paid subscription service in India for Rs 49 per month, as it aims to increase revenue amid slowed growth and layoffs globally. The subscribers in India will receive a Snapchat+ badge for their profile with a Star designation. The Snapchat+ arrives in India at a time […]
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San Francisco: Popular social media platform Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has announced a new creator fund that will award independent musicians up to $100,000 per month. The company said that the new grant programme is designed to recognise emerging, independent artists for their critical role in driving video creations, inspiring Internet trends and defining […]
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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has confirmed that the US Secret Service Director James Murray, who is retiring from his current post, will join the company as a chief security officer at the end of the month. According to The Verge, Murray’s private sector move was first reported this week, shortly after the […]
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San Francisco: Popular social media platform Snapchat has announced that it is launching Snapchat Plus, a collection of exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features available on the platform, for $3.99 per month. The company said that it will be available at launch in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the […]
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New Delhi: Popular social media platform Snapchat is working on paid subscriptions for users as it struggles to make money after Apple introduced tough rivacy changes. Called Snapchat Plus, the paid subscription service is currently in “early internal testing,” reports The Verge. “We’re doing early internal testing of Snapchat Plus, a new subscription service for […]
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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, is slowing down on hiring this year, as tech companies’ stocks go through rough weathers amid challenging macro-economic environment globally. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told employees that the company plans to hire 500 people this year, versus 2,000 it hired over the past 12 months, after warning […]
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San Francisco: Popular social media platform Snapchat has introduced its first-ever drone camera called Pixy which is said to be a pocket-sized device and can help you create better. Meet Pixy. Your friendly flying camera. Pixy brings magic to every moment, all you have to do is let it fly! #FlyWithMe pic.twitter.com/GAh8znI76I — Snap Pixy (@snappixy) […]
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San Francisco: Social media platform Snapchat is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter and in its latest quarterly report, the platform said it grew its daily active users (DAUs) 18 per cent to 332 million (year-on-year). While Facebook (now Meta) had reported its first loss in the number of DAUs last quarter, Twitter’s monetizable DAUs […]
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Orlando: According to a new study, parents who share photos of their children on social networking sites tend to have a more friend-like parenting style and allow their kids to use social media at younger ages. The findings of the study were published in the journal, ‘Computing Machinery’. These parents also tend to share posts […]
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San Francisco/New Delhi: TikTok’s meteoric rise has baffled Meta (formerly Facebook) as the Chinese short-video app is set to overtake the global advertising share of micro-blogging platform Twitter and photo-sharing platform Snapchat this year. Moreover, TikTok is predicted to catch up with Google-owned YouTube by clocking $23.6 billion in ad revenue by 2024, reports The […]