Blog: Evan Spiegel

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Media Musings: Who Will Buy Snap Inc?

Zach Fuller

14 Dec 2018

Disney

Evan Spiegel

Media

As outlined in our 2019 forecasting report, MIDiA predicts that Snap Inc. as we know it will be no more by the end of 2019. Its most notable asset Snapchat still has a sizeable audience among younger demographics...

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What’s in a Log-In? Social Platform Wars 2018

Zach Fuller

15 Jun 2018

Evan Spiegel

Facebook

Instagram

Snap Inc has launched an alternative to the ubiquitous ‘log-in with Facebook’ offer, which commands the paucity of visual real estate available on app screens. This follows Snap’s recent announcement...

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Tencent Can’t Lose With Its 12% Stake Purchase in Snap Inc

Zach Fuller

10 Nov 2017

Amazon

chinese tech

Evan Spiegel

As tech’s big players continued to rollout their Q3 earnings reports, one of the most startling revelations was quietly embedded within Snap Inc’s stock ownership. The section read: In November 2017,...

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New Report: Snap Inc Q1 2017 - Declining User Growth Exacerbates Rising Costs

Zach Fuller

12 May 2017

advertising

Amazon

Daily Active users

Following the release of its first earnings call since its IPO in March, Snapchat creator Snap Inc has seen its stock price drop 28% to its lowest price since going public. The development increasingly...

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Snapchat Imitations Are a Red Herring - Tencent Is Who Facebook Truly Want to Emulate

Zach Fuller

2 Mar 2017

Apple

bots

Evan Spiegel

Snapchat has gone public, yet investors are still cagey on the company's IPO in response to Facebook’s regular copying of the ephemeral image-based app. Such is the extent of this that in response to...

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Has Snapchat Learned From Twitter’s IPO?

Zach Fuller

14 Oct 2016

Amazon

augmented reality

echo

Snap Inc, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, have hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for a seemingly imminent IPO. In addition to being one of the first app generation unicorns (alongside...

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