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- 16 Jun 2016
Oracle, Snapchat Ads Survey Finds 92% Increased Offline Sales
Oracle and Snapchat on Thursday announced a partnership tomeasure the impact of digital advertising in the physical world. By teaming together, Oracle Data Cloud and Snapchat measure incremental…
- 27 Feb 2023
Snapchat to Launches chatbot powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT
Snapchat has launched My AI, a new Chatbot running the latest version of OpenAI’s GPT technology. Snapchat subscribers can now access My AI, an experimental feature, as part of their $3.99-a-month…
- 3 Oct 2022
African Marketers Simply Cannot Afford to Ignore Snapchat: Here’s Why
By Alistair Errington, Snap Partner Director at Ad Dynamo by Aleph Over the years, Snapchat has consistently defied its most ardent critics. The platform has grown from strength to strength rather…
- 1 Jul 2016
5 Exciting Ways to Use Snapchat on Your Wedding Day
Snapchat is fast becoming one of the most used multimedia mobile application in the world. According to statistics, users of the application sent over 2 billion videos daily as at May 2015. With…
- 13 Mar 2015
Alibaba Sinks $200m In Snapchat
Alibaba has doled out $200 million to invest in photo-messaging app Snapchat, a source familiar with the deal said, striking its latest Silicon Valley deal as the Chinese e-commerce company…
- 4 Jan 2017
Top 3 Tips for Brand Building, Business Marketing with Snapchat
With over 100 million active users and 400 million snaps per day, the social media platform is one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world, and even though it caters mainly to a younger…
- 2 Jun 2017
Microsoft Overhauls Skype to Compete With Snapchat, iMessage
Microsoft’s Skype helped pioneer modern video conferencing and instant messaging. But its power has taken a backseat in recent years to the convenience of communicating via nearly ubiquitous social…
- 2 Jun 2026
Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and Google Reach Multi-Million Dollar Deal in School Lawsuit
Several leading social media companies have agreed to pay approximately 27 million dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by a school district in the United States over claims that their platforms…
- 31 Jul 2022
Snapchat Extends Service to Web
Popular Messaging and photo app, Snap has extended its services to the Web, thus allowing users to send messages and make video calls to their contacts from their computers. The company had initially…
- 5 Nov 2020
WhatsApp Introduces Disappearing Message Feature
Facebook-owned WhatsApp said yesterday it would introduce disappearing messages on WhatsApp, a move ramping up its challenge to rival Snapchat. The messaging service used by more than two billion…
- 2 Jan 2014
Hackers Compromise 4.6m Phone Numbers, Publish Them Online
Hackers broke into Snapchat, the hugely popular mobile app, accessing the phone numbers and usernames of 4.6 million users and publishing them online, tech news website TechCrunch has announced. The…
- 30 Dec 2016
Facebook, Google Top out Most Popular Apps in 2016
Facebook might not be as cool as Snapchat, but it still has the most popular app in the US, according to a Nielsen report for 2016 published Wednesday. In a year where Pokemon Go smashed App Store…
- 11 May 2023
AI is Changing the Rules of Digital Marketing, Here’s How to Take Advantage of it
By Alistair Errington, Snapchat Partner Director, Ad Dynamo by Aleph After years of promising advances, the past year has been a breakthrough for bringing artificial intelligence (AI) into the…
- 3 Aug 2016
New Instagram Feature makes Content Disappear after 24 Hours
Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, is taking aim at fast-growing messaging app Snapchat with a new feature that gives users the option to make pictures and videos to disappear…
- 21 Feb 2024
New York Sues TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other Social Platforms over Youth Mental Health Crisis
New York City, its schools, and public hospital system have announced a lawsuit against the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, blaming their “addictive and…
- 10 Sept 2015
Instagram Opens to Advertisers Worldwide
Instagram has opened its platform to most advertisers around the world, as the photo-sharing app seeks to make more money and compete with popular rivals such as Snapchat. Ads, previously available…
- 19 Apr 2026
Tech Shake-Up: Snap Cuts Hundreds as AI Drives Efficiency Push
Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, has announced the layoff of about 1,000 employees as part of efforts to improve efficiency through artificial intelligence. Evan Spiegel, chief executive…
- 22 Jun 2016
5 Tools to Get Fans on Social Media
Facebook is the biggest and most popular social media network in the world. With over 1 billion users, other new media platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and Pinterest amongst are trying to…
- 12 Sept 2017
Six Tricks for Using Instagram Story Like a Pro
Snapchat may have introduced stories but it was actually made popular after it was 'copied' by Facebook's Instagram. Today, Instagram Stories feature is now used by over 200 million people daily.…
- 21 Feb 2017
WhatsApp Gets Status Update
Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is today introducing a feature that will allow users to update their status with pictures and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Previously, users could post…
- 19 Jan 2017
Why ‘Press Release’ Will Never Die
A lot of PR professionals are of the opinion that the idea of writing and issuing press release is obsolete, outdated and dead. I disagree; primarily, because of two reasons. In articulating my view,…
- 14 Dec 2016
Instagram Rolls Out Live Video
Facebook-owned picture-sharing platform Instagram has announced its new ephemeral live broadcast feature will begin roll-out today. The live videos are similar to other services like Twitter's…
- 13 Mar 2023
Many Africans Still Believe Cybercrime ‘won’t Affect them’ - Report
The digital landscape is overflowing with an ever-evolving array of solutions and services created to make lives easier, offices smoother and engagements richer. Smartphones, applications, social…
- 3 Jun 2025
Report Shows AI Curiosity Among Children more than Doubled in 2025
Kaspersky has released its annual report on children’s digital interests, with the analysis covering the period from May 2024 to April 2025. It reveals a growing fascination with artificial…
- 6 Feb 2017
Viber Rolls-Out Secret Messages
Messaging app Viber now lets users send videos and photographs that disappear after the recipient has viewed them. The new feature, called secret messages, was developed to give users the option of…
- 23 Jun 2016
Top 10 Must-Have Travel Apps
Technology has changed travel in more ways than we can think of: the railway made covering long distances not only quicker than horse-and-cart, but more affordable for the working-class. The…
- 1 Mar 2023
Meta is Testing AI Tool for WhatsApp and Messenger
Meta is the latest social media company to jump on the artificial intelligence train according to comments shared by its Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg, in a Facebook post published…
- 4 Sept 2017
Digital Ads & Media Trends to Watch Out For
It has been revealed by BI that Google is refunding advertisers, whose campaigns were placed via DoubleClick Bid Manager on websites with fake traffic, This ad fraud incident highlights two of the…
- 8 Sept 2017
Is Your Child Old Enough to be on Social Media
The current generation of kids are amazingly precocious. Their wide-eyed curiosity and seemingly insatiable desire to constantly learn new things means that, your child is probably active on social…
- 18 Jul 2017
5 Tips to Keep Your Child Safe on the Internet
Parenting comes with a lot of headaches. From the moment you take the decision to allow your child own a smartphone or other smart device, a whole source of worry develops. This is because despite…