Snap knows that people post videos with its augmented reality lenses to multiple platforms, and today, it’s launching lenses specifically to be used on TikTok. The company is partnering with four TikTok stars. One lens, made in collaboration with Dixie D’Amelio, places rain around the subject along with cartoon lightning bolts and fireworks, depending on […]
The first of Snap’s new Mini applications rolled out Monday, with tools from meditation app Headspace, part of an initiative “to help support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Snapchatters,” a Snap spokesperson said in a statement. Snap Minis are built directly into Snapchat with HTML5, and they work for all users on all […]
Snapchat users were presented with a filter to “celebrate” Juneteenth a remembrance of slaves being informed they were free years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed but they were quick to call out Snap for yet another case of thoughtlessness. The filter urges users to “smile and break the chains” smiling while taking a selfie […]
Facebook, Twitter, and even YouTube have made their stance relatively clear: Use these platforms at your own risk. They’re not the truth police, and whether or not other people harass you is up to you to handle. Of course we know where this has gotten us. We now have everything from a hacked election to […]
Snapchat has launched a new lens called Time Machine that allows you to change the appearance of your age simply by dragging a slider across your screen. The Time Machine lens uses advanced machine learning and training models to change your facial features and make you look young or old in a real time. Snapchat […]
Snapchat is introducing a new 3D Paint feature that lets you draw in augmented reality. You can use it to draw on your own face using your phone’s front-facing camera, and it’ll also work with your rear-facing camera to let you to draw on objects in the environment. One video produced by Snap shows the […]
Snapchat is rolling out an easy way for you to share the best things you find on Reddit with your friends. You’ll see Snapchat among the options when you tap the share button on Reddit, as long as you have both apps installed on an iOS device. It will put the Reddit post into the […]
Spotify users will soon be able to recommend tracks and podcasts directly to their friends and followers on Snapchat, thanks to a new sharing option announced Monday. The new feature allows users to either add albums, tracks or podcasts to a story, or share them directly with their friends. Users who see a shared song […]
Snap appears to be working its way out of a downturn. In the company’s Q2 earnings release that just dropped. Snap revealed that it had 203 million daily active Snapchat users in the last quarter, up eight percent year-over-year and seven percent quarter-over-quarter. That came after several quarters of declining users, something that was clearly […]
Snapchat has been in negotiations with music companies including the big three Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to license song catalogs for the Snapchat app, according to two industry sources familiar with the talks, confirming a Wall Street Journal report. The licensing deal would come at a time when tech […]
Snap has finally released its new, rebuilt Snapchat Android app, which the company has been rewriting from the ground up since the beginning of 2018 to bring performance for the Android version up to par with the iOS app. That’s why last year, the company finally started working to get its Android app on a […]
Snap today announced Bitmoji Party, its first original multiplayer game for Snapchat. Bitmoji Party offers players a series of lightly challenging mini-games for the mobile phone, and is designed to be played by small groups. If successful, it could attract new users to Snapchat while encouraging them to spend more time inside the app. Bitmoji Party, which casts […]
Snapchat messaging app Snap Inc plans to announce its gaming platform for developers next month, online news service Cheddar. The platform, codenamed “Project Cognac”, will feature a handful of games from outside developers designed to work specifically in the Snapchat app, according to the report. The new games initiative will be unveiled at Snap’s first-ever […]