The messaging app, which is due to file its first quarterly results, since going public, on Wednesday, has also dialed back on its trademark ephemerality with a new service that lets users share a Snap for an infinite time. Dubbed Limitless Snaps, the tool will let Snapchatters share images with their select friends without restricting the amount of time the recipient can keep the image open. Images will still disappear after they've been viewed, but the Snap automatically close after a set number of seconds.
The campaign is meant to bring the world of Zootopia to life both on and off the Snapchat app. Included in the effort are out-of-home activations across Los Angeles along with a Sponsored Snap that will feature characters from the movie. Snapchat users can also unlock seven different augmented reality (AR) lenses inspired by the film's characters through a branded AR Bar.
I was married, didn't worry about that stuff and neither did my then-husband. We all had fun using the filters and sending the funny pictures to each other. Fast forward a few years and I got a divorce and my kids and I started a group chat and shared our locations with each other. And to this day, even though they are grown, we send no less than twenty snaps to each other a day. Mostly of dogs and funny things that happen to us during the day.
Are you still using Snapchat? It's the social media app that keeps on kicking, to the tune of more than 900 million monthly active users. Today, Perplexity.AI and Snap announced that the AI company will power AI search on Snapchat. This $400 million partnership means the AI startup will integrate its conversational AI answer engine in the Snapchat app, starting in early 2026.
Snapchat may be on the charm offensive for ad spend but it is still relatively closed off to advertisers, planting it firmly in the test-and-learn arena rather than tried-and-tested at the moment. The ephemeral platform has overcome its perceived immaturity and is set to tip from niche network to mainstream marvel this year. Its association with sexting and selfies wasn't the easiest sell-in to advertisers but a growing list of influential brand and media partnerships with the likes of Coca-Cola, Burberry and the Wall Street Journal is allowing agencies to pitch Snapchat without a resulting snicker.
Snapchat's parent company revealed it was set to change the focus of its London office, saying that the UK's strong creative industries make for a "great place to build a global business'. In a marked departure from a well-worn path employed by rivals like Facebook and Twitter, which have set up shop in other EU countries, Snap Inc announced that all UK ad revenue and sales from countries which had no local salesforce would be billed through a newly-created British entity.
🌏 The women's sports fan community is global, growing, and connected. Globally, 62% of all sports fans follow women's sports, with 56% of fans noting their interest in the women's game is growing. Additionally 57% of women's sports fans surveyed said following athletes and creators makes them feel like part of a community. ♥️ Fans notice and acknowledge sponsors. As seen in previous data, these women's sports fans appreciate sponsors in the space - 69% want to see brands support communities built around women's sports.
We've often heard from our community that Snapchatters want to save their chats forever. Infinite Retention can now be enabled for each individual conversation, and everyone receives a clear notification when the setting changes.
A New Jersey cop allegedly recorded surveillance footage of a female arrestee performing a sex act in a jail cell on his phone and then shared the X-rated clip over Snapchat, prosecutors said Monday. Ventnor City police officer Ryan Bonanni, 24, was charged Monday with official misconduct, computer theft and three counts of invasion of privacy, following the incident with the woman who was arrested by the local department on July 6, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
Snapchat reached 469 million daily active users in Q2, an increase of 9 million on its Q1 numbers, yet it continues to lose users in its key North American market.
The Pampers AR Storybook project, featuring augmented reality storytelling, addresses the critical issue of early literacy, aiming to change the fact that millions of children haven't been read to.