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Study: Teens choose Snapchat over Facebook and Instagram

The numbers are in: teens continue flocking to Snapchat – at the expense of stalwarts Facebook and Instagram. Numbers game The Taking Stock with Teens report from Piper Jaffray quizzed 10,000 US teens about their social usage and preferences. The report found 80% of teens use Snapchat monthly. This is up from 74% last year. 

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Year in Review: Snapchat 2016

Without a doubt, 2016 was the year of Snapchat. Moving from millennial plaything to serious platform, Snapchat's successful features often "inspired" similar offerings from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. But can Snapchat translate all that traction into cold hard cash?  Oh Snap Snapchat's audience isn't the biggest, but they're very attractive to marketers. With a "modest"

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Snapchat Smart Glasses: More than Spectacle?

Snapchat Spectacles up the ante in the wearable tech race. Their unique take on video capture and playback is fascinating to millennials and marketers alike. Wearable tech for the Snapchat generation The smart sunglasses let users snap 10-second videos, from their point of view. Think of it as taking first-person snapshots of daily life. Fashion

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SMK Explores: Snapchat Ad Targeting

A few years ago, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel ruffled some feathers when he described precision targeted advertising as ‘creepy’. He claimed that Snapchat wouldn’t be following Facebook’s lead in using detailed user data for advertising purposes. However, with Snapchat hotter than ever, the lure of increased advertising revenues seems to have one out over highfalutin

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