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Facebook looks to Snapchat for best practice in the battle For AR supremacy

Georgia Meyer

20 Jul 2018

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Facebook has once again co-opted an innovative social media product development from Snap – the parent company of Snapchat. Firstly, it incorporated Snapchat’s uniquely differentiated stories functionality, including their ephemeral disappearing quality, bringing this feature to Instagram.

How Tencent is successfully monetising a messaging app ecosystem

Alistair Taylor

6 Jul 2018

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Chinese tech giant Tencent, the company that 12 months ago you probably were not paying attention to, is now the second largest messaging app ecosystem globally, behind Facebook. Tencent is the only company currently monetising its digital consumer base effectively.

What can marketers do post-GDPR?

Georgia Meyer

27 Jun 2018

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There was a predictable reduced presence at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity held under the shadow of GDPR legislation coming into effect last month. AdTech firms in particular were notable by their absence, given that many of their business models are reliant on the t...

IGTV and how to make video work in the messaging app ecosystem

Tim Mulligan

26 Jun 2018

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The rise of the messaging app ecosystem over the previous seven years has created a profound challenge for premium video production companies. There are tight creative limitations that come with creating content for the smaller real estate of a smart phone screen and creating non-intrusive content o...

Shoppable stories: Competition between Instagram and Snapchat intensifies

Georgia Meyer

20 Jun 2018

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Pressure to demonstrate the commercial viability of social media platforms, particularly for those sites not already owned by major media players, is intensifying. This is all the more resonant in an age where business models are increasingly reliant upon data and hyper-targeting.

What’s in a log-in? Social platform wars 2018

Zach Fuller

15 Jun 2018

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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 of development tools designed to open up the app to anyone wishing to build features, much in ...

Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg elaborated: “In the US and Canada, these changes contributed to a DAU decline of 700,000 comp...

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Quick Take: Facebook Deprioritises Publishers

Zach Fuller

12 Jan 2018

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Facebook has once again updated its news feed and in the tradition of its tense relationship with content creators, it does not appear to favour publishers. It is worth viewing such a move in the context of Mark Zuckerberg’s annual resolutions.

Quick Take: Universal’s Partnership with Facebook

Zach Fuller

22 Dec 2017

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Following its renewed deal with YouTube earlier this week, Universal has signed another landmark agreement for digital monetisation, this time with Facebook. Described by the world’s largest recorded music label as ‘unprecedented’, Facebook users,under the terms of the partnership, will now be...

Snapchat’s Re-Design Is Likely Too Little Too Late

Zach Fuller

30 Nov 2017

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Having promised a ‘whole new Snapchat’, it appears the app’s mooted re-design is not the revolution Evan Spiegel proposed during his company’s Q3 earnings call. The company’s founder stated that: “While blurring the lines between professional content creators and your friends has been an...

TV Fandom And The Power Of Social Apps

Tim Mulligan

1 Nov 2017

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In the fast-moving digital world of 2017 the TV show is facing an existential challenge. On the one hand, TV shows have never been more popular, with scripted drama leading a renaissance in video as a distinct art form and shaping our contemporary cultural worldview.

Quick Take: Facebook’s Renewed VR Push

Zach Fuller

13 Oct 2017

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Facebook is back in the VR game. With the $199 headset announced this week, Mark Zuckerberg has renewed his desire to bring one billion people into Virtual Reality. Such a statement is at odds with the industry mood, with the celebratory VR narrative of 2016 taking a dive at the beginning of 2017.

Spotify, Netflix And Instagram Make Gains In Q2 2017

Mark Mulligan

19 Sep 2017

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Since Q4 2016 MIDiA Research has been fielding a quarterly tracker survey across the US, UK, Canada and Australia to build a proprietary dataset that provides a unique insight into how digital consumer trends are evolving quarter-upon-quarter.

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Quick Take: Snap Inc’s Q2 Earnings

Zach Fuller

11 Aug 2017

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After much anticipation, Snap Inc has released its Q2 earnings outlining the company’s progress in the past three months. Of course, much of the attention has focused on missing growth and revenue targets, as Snap continues to feel the pressure of competition with Facebook and other messaging serv...

Facebook Gets Further Into Premium Sports Content

Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2017

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The UEFA Champions League is coming to Facebook for the 2017-2018 season. Facebook is partnering with Fox Sports to live stream next season’s games starting in September, via the TV network’s Facebook pages.

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

Zach Fuller

12 May 2017

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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 reflects investor uncertainty as to whether the company will be able to continue following a perio...

Quick Take: Snapchat Opens Up To Brands

Zach Fuller

5 May 2017

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Having incurred considerable audience loss to Instagram since the Facebook owned platform began copying several of the image-based messaging apps most popular features, Snapchat is fighting back with its latest pitch to brands and advertisers.

Social Commerce: Facebook’s Next Act?

Zach Fuller

26 Jan 2017

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Discussions abound in tech circles over where Facebook will go next. Much in the same way as Apple’s definitive strategy in the past two decades can be interpreted through their services embellishing the company’s hardware products, (though a slowdown in iPhone sales could potentially alter this...

Snapchat’s Pre-IPO Nightmares: Instagram Launches Ads On Stories To 150 Million Daily Users

Karol Severin

12 Jan 2017

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Instagram has announced the launch of ads in Stories. Stories are a feature pinned at the top of Instagram’s user feed, enabling them to showcase and browse photos and videos of other users. Instagram Stories is infamous for being heavily inspired by Snapchat’s features.

Facebook The Media Company: If It Looks Like A Duck

Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2016

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Yesterday Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally confirmed that Facebook is a media company , not a traditional one, but a media company nonetheless. This is something we've been thinking about a lot at MIDiA, so much so in fact that we have just publishedan entire report on the subject: "Facebook T...

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