Snapchat has historically been a messaging and fun communications app, but the company appears interested in shifting that narrative through Scan, a feature that lets the app identify a host of objects in the real world, from clothes to dog breeds.
Facebook's WhatsApp chat application is adding a feature that was initially popularized by Snapchat: view once, disappearing photos and videos. The app is rolling out support for the feature this week.
Twitter has announced that it will shut down Fleets citing low usage. Fleets were originally launched in November of 2020 and were designed to compete with Instagram and Snapchat stories.
Norway has recently passed legislation that makes it illegal for photos that feature any kind of retouching without disclosing the edits posted by celebrities and influencers as part of a pushback against unrealistic beauty standards and a rise in body dysmorphic disorder.
Confirming a report from early March, Snap has officially announced its ambitious next-generation augmented reality (AR) Spectacles. They sound incredibly ambitous, but they also aren't for sale.
Facebook as a business is extremely fast to respond to competition, and it continues to do so with Instagram's latest feature. Called Remix, it's an add-on to the Reels feature that allows users to record new Reels videos alongside Reels from other users.
Snap is working on its next-generation glasses that will be able to layer Snapchat lenses (which are augmented reality effects) onto the environment without needing to use a smartphone camera, according to a new report. It has also reportedly revived its plans to introduce a selfie-drone.
Snapchat has announced the launch of a new feature on its platform that is aimed right at the heart of TikTok. Called "Spotlight," the new section features a showcase of user-created videos that the company plans to invest millions into.
Instagram is making changes to its home screen by adding two new tabs: Reels and Shop. Reels is described as a way to discover "short, fun videos from creators around the world," and the Shop tab is designed to give users faster access to brands and products.
Snapchat has apologized after releasing and then pulling a Juneteenth camera filter that prompted users to "smile" to break the chains of slavery.
VSCO has partnered with Snap Inc. to release its first ever Snapchat lens. Dubbed 'Analog,' the sponsored lens is free to use and "designed to celebrate the imperfections, mistakes, and happy accidents found when shooting with film."
Snapchat's Spectacles camera glasses generated a huge amount of hype when they were slowly released in 2016, but total sales were reportedly disappointing. But that isn't stopping the company from doubling down on the project: it just announced Spectacles 2.0 with design improvements and the ability to shoot still photos.
Snapchat ran its first TV commercial this past weekend. As you can see in the 60-second video above, the company is trying to sell itself to a wider audience as "A New Kind of Camera."
The United States has just proposed new rules that would require all visa applicants to provide their social media usernames from the past 5 years. If you're thinking of visiting or moving to the US, you may soon have to be okay with officials flipping through your online photos.
In its latest effort to stay competitive in the world of photo sharing, Snapchat has quietly released an interesting new feature: photo filters powered by image recognition.
Snapchat has been rolling out a continuous stream of new filters, but the latest ones are rather unusual. Following the trend of Snapchat working with augmented reality, the new additions will totally transform a boring blue sky into something far more dramatic.
Snap Inc’s experimental foray into wearables may not have had much of a financial impact for the struggling company, but they did create some buzz with their pop-up ‘Snapbot’ vending machines. Now they’ve made their Spectacles available directly on Amazon at the same $130 price.
Arguably Snapchat's most popular feature to date is their augmented reality 'selfie filters' that allow you to augment your face with bunny ears, vomit rainbows, and occasionally trample on someone's copyright. Now, in a move absolutely everyone saw coming, Instagram has copied the feature.
Snap Inc., the parent company of image and video sharing app Snapchat, reported their quarterly financial results for the first time since going public on Wednesday, and it isn’t pretty. Snap’s user growth slowed down and revenue was below Wall Street expectations for the quarter.
Just days after Instagram announced that they had reached a whopping 700 million users, PBS NewsHour headed over to Instagram Headquarters in Silicon Valley to have a chat with CEO and Co-Founder Kevin Systrom.
Snap's IPO is complete and the 5-year-old tech company behind Snapchat is now officially a publicly traded corporation. Shares in Snap have exploded nearly 50% in the stock's debut today, valuing the company at around $29 billion.
It's probably nowhere near the top of your photo gear wish list, but one of the "coolest" and most "in-demand" cameras in the world is finally available to purchase online: Snapchat's wearable Spectacles.
As Snap Inc., the company behind the ephemeral photo sharing app Snapchat, prepares for its Initial Public Offering (IPO), the company is filing papers that call out rival Instagram and reveal profitability may never be a part of Snapchat's future.
Snapchat is best known for being a social messaging app that has transformed the way people share photos. But its parent company, recently renamed to Snap Inc., has much loftier goals: it's aiming to become a juggernaut of a camera company.
I’ve had my Snapchat Spectacles for a few weeks now, and I’m really impressed by the videos you can make with them.
In September 2016, Snapchat changed it’s name to Snap Inc. and introduced Spectacles, a pair of sunglasses with a built-in camera that records 10-second snippets of video and posts directly to your Snapchat Story.
Snapchat's new Spectacles camera glasses just went on sale today. Instead of offering them through an online store, however, Snapchat is selling them through pop-up "Snapbot" vending machines that show up in various locations for a single day.
Snapchat just upped the ante on acid trip-like augmented reality. In their latest update, the photo and video messaging app added something called 'World Lenses': basically animated filters that you can apply to the world around you the same way you could apply the app's 'Selfie Lenses' to your face.
Facebook will soon be updating its mobile app camera to include filter features popularized by apps such as Snapchat and Prisma.
Snapchat just unveiled camera sunglasses for capturing your daily life as your eyes see it. The Snapchat Spectacles are upcoming $130 shades that will compete against the likes of Google Glass.
Instagram just took a page from Snapchat's book by announcing Instagram Stories, a new feature that lets you share temporary slideshows with multiple photos and videos.
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Snapchat has evolved WAY past the simple self-destructing photo messenger it started as. And today, the app took a big leap forward by introducing 'Memories,' basically a Camera Roll inside the Snapchat app that lets you save, search, and replay or re-share old photos and videos.
Snapchat's "lenses," more colloquially known as selfie filters or just "filters," may seem like a totally inane feature. But it turns out the facial recognition technology behind them is advanced, impressive... and a tad scary.
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Snapchat's selfie filters have turned into something of a phenomenon—whether you want to become a koala or puke a rainbow, they have you covered. But the popular ephemeral photo sharing and messaging app is in a spot of trouble over those filters this week.
Here’s a humorous video that’s making the rounds online: a guy named Mikey …
Facebook is spending dough to battle Snapchat on the casual photography front: the company just acquired MSQRD, a face-swapping camera app that has been exploding in popularity among smartphone users.
Major League Baseball and Snapchat are partnering up to give fans an inside look at what baseball is like behind the scenes. And there's a bat-shaped selfie stick involved, called the SnapBat.
Snapchat has amassed hundreds of thousands of users since it launched in 2011, and it has largely stuck to its formula of simple, self-destructive photo sharing. Yesterday, the company announced a new "Lenses" filter feature and the ability to replay 3 photos or videos for $1.
Branden Harvey became a professional photographer at the age of 16. He has since become an extremely popular photographer on social media, boasting over 104,000 followers on Instagram and one of the largest followings of a photographer on Snapchat (with 50,000+ views per image shared). We spoke to Harvey about his unique career path and perspective.