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Quick Take: Snap Inc’s Q2 Earnings

Zach Fuller

11 Aug 2017

Facebook

Google

Instagram

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 services.

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How A Month With Spectacles Changed My Outlook On Snap’s Future

Karol Severin

7 Jul 2017

Innovation

Media

Mobile content

When the SnapBot finally popped up in Berlin, I eagerly trekked to the location to see whether the product would change my existing opinions about the company’s future. It did. I made my way to the SnapBot on a sunny Friday afternoon.

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How Snapchat’s Year of Living Dangerously Could End with a Major Win

Zach Fuller

11 Nov 2016

augmented reality

Facebook

flash

Despite an audience both of huge scale and engagement (150m Daily Active Users), this is an uncertain time for Snap Inc. Though they have impressively manoeuvred away from their original incarnation as the alternative ephemeral image-messaging app towards building an impressive advertising model of discover channels and sponsored lenses, the company will be fully aware that in order to safeguard their lucrative prospective IPO (presently valuing the company at $25 Billion), they must preserve anarrative of continual growth if they areto acquiesce with Wall Street demands of tech stocks.

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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 Spotify and Uber) to go public, the company is doing so at a time when fellow social media giant Twitter is in the process of selling itself, having seemingly been stalled by acquisition discussions with Disney, Google and Salesforce.

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