Tag: Snapchat

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is losing teens to Youtube, Snapchat and Instagram. This fact is, by all means, true according to recent research conducted by Pew Research Center.Facebook, launched by Mark Zuckerberg in a small dorm about 14 years from now, has been at a real quick-propel towards achieving global domination over other social media platforms. However, the survey done by...

YouTube, not content with reaching more people aged 18-49 than any major cable network, is stepping up its attempts to engage its users with a rash of new features designed to improve the social experience on the channel. The first new toy YouTube is set to introduce is a feature called “Reels,” which will essentially function in the same...

There are some companies in the world today that have become more than mere corporate organizations; some companies, like Google, have become global institutions in their own right. For the past two decades, Google has been a mainstay of the technological industry. In fact, we may even consider Google to be the gateway to the modern internet. Such is...

Social media giants Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) recently held their "A Place To Connect" event in New Delhi. The event was mainly headlined by Facebook showcasing their family of products and apps. It was primarily a community engagement exercise, however, Facebook made some fairly pertinent announcements which give us greater insight into the social media giant's ventures in India and...

The spending on digital advertising in the US is set for another year of startling growth. But the major eye-popping fact is the strengthening position of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) in digital display ad market which will widen the gap with Google.The research firm eMarketer estimates that in the US, total spending on digital advertising will reach $83 billion in 2017. This...

Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) now has a new feature called Messenger Day, which lets users share parts of their day with their Messenger buddies, and which will disappear in 24 hours. This feature is very identical to Snapchat's Stories feature which also offers its users the option to view their friends' daily updates or to upload their own, visible for a...

In the U.S., there are 286.9 million Internet users, that indicating a penetration of 88.5 percent. Emails and social networking sites are the most popular modes of engagement on the web in the U.S., but its YouTube which has emerged as the most popular website and app for online content consumption.According to a recent study from National Cyber Security Alliance...

The self-destruction photo sharing app is now the third most widely used social app right after Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) and Facebook owned Instagram. A report by comScore mentioned that Snapchat has grabbed the third-position with 32.9% of smartphone penetration among the list of leading social media apps used by smartphone users in the US aged between 18 and 34.It seems...

As the world moves mobile, businesses are following suit to stay relevant and up to date. Mobile marketers stay desperate to try to tap into the millennial market -- with little success breaking through the distrust and white noise that advertising has become to young people. A recent $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook strengthen the claim. But...

When I first heard about this startup, I immediately got caught into a thought-process ‘Aah another copy-cat of Instagram’…but then after a year I have no shame to admit that I was wrong. However, this also made me to learn that if your startup is able to catch the eyeballs of sizable number of internet users, your web-based startup...

"Vine" is the Twitter’s new video-sharing mobile app and VinePeek is a website that pulls in the latest vines one after the other regardless of who you follow or if you’re even on Vine or Twitter. A similar site, VineRoulette serves up random vines around the world and lets you view tagged vines in a fairly unique interface.Both services offer real-time streams of...

The new “Graph Search” feature lets you get information on the connections between people, their profile information and their interests on Facebook. Facebook promised it would be a good way for finding recommendations for businesses, products, concerts, restaurants etc. Users thought Facebook’s Graph Search feature has changed the way we search. It binds social graph of our friends and...

Facebook is losing its luster among teens; they think Facebook is pretty out-dated? A survey conducted based on two groups of consumers aged 13-18 (Teens) and 19-25 (Young adults), to find out which social networking sites they preferred most. The social media sites on which the survey happened includes, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat. Astonishingly, Tumblr and Snapchat found...