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Snapchat also launched integration with Twitch, including an in-stream widget for Snapcodes, the ability to offer lenses to stream viewers and as an incentive to channel subscribers. Several video game-themed lenses were also launched at this time, including ones themed around League of Legends , Overwatch , and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds .
Snapchat is conceived by Stanford graduate students. Initial versions are launched and an initial userbase is obtained. December 2014 – August 2016: Aggressive fundraising, focus on video, more product iterations
The company was named Snapchat Inc. at its inception, but it was rebranded Snap Inc. on September 24, 2016, in order to include the Spectacles product under the company name. [12] Snap is co-owned by Tencent (which holds a 45.43% stake) and NBCUniversal , a division of Comcast (whose stake is undisclosed).
When Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy first went live with Snapchat in the App Store in September of 2011, it was a disappearing photos app made by college kids that *definitely wasn't* for sending ...
When Snapchat launched a few years ago, it was immediately hailed by the press — including this publication — as a sexting app. To be sure, it's not entirely clear that people were primarily ...
When Snapchat launched in 2011, it was a one-of-a-kind messaging app. Seven years later, Snapchat's parent company Snap is facing competition from Facebook, which offers three different apps that ...
Snapchat. Snapchat, launched in 2011 with its infamous disappearing videos, remains popular among teens and younger adults. The platform gained so much traction that Meta designed a similar feature in Facebook and Instagram called “Stories” that lets users post photos or videos that disappear within 24 hours.
Yik Yak, a social media app for local discussion, is launched. [74] 2013 Launch 8chan, a decentralized English-language imageboard, is launched by Fredrick Brennan. [75] 2013 Launch Patreon, a crowdfunding site that would later become a subscription service for content creators on social media sites, is launched. [76] 2013 Acquisition