Tag: snapchat

Ever since Snapchat (or Snap, whatever they want to call themselves) hit the stock market, its fortunes have not been great. Instagram basically copied everything they did, advertisers have become increasingly uninterested, and the app’s user growth has slowed big time. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t care about any of that! If the Snaps […]

It’s a pattern we’ve seen play out many, many times — an awesome free social apps gets created and blows up. Everyone loves it until IPO day — the day when the free app actually needs to become a business. Now that Snap’s IPO has happened, they’ve got to start making that transition by any means necessary. […]

While Snapchat Memories does add a few interesting new features to the app, let’s not mince words — Snapchat needs a better way to increase ad revenue, and they’re out for it with this update. Memories allows you to save snaps you create, and if that sounds familiar, it’s because you could already do that by […]

Well, it’s come to this. Now you can apply for a job using Snapchat. The same app that lets you put a rabbit nose on your face can now earn you a job with viable health insurance. Online retailer Everlane is now accepting job applications submitted via Snapchat. Apparently Snapchat stories are the cover letters of […]

Snapchat had already established itself as a player in the world of messaging apps with Chat, but this week’s update could put them over the top. Chat 2.0 is packed with little updates and new features to create some of the most dynamic ongoing conversations we’ve seen in any app thus far. The main idea […]

Now that Snapchat has turned down billions, they probably figured that they maybe needed to move on from sending disappearing pictures – do at least a little something else. So, true to their name, they added chat. And video chat. All disappearing, of course. It’s hard to make a new messenger service and compete, which […]