Facebook has released a new photo uploader that looks and feels a lot like Snapchat. If it walks like a duck… The new uploader is available for iOS users, and allows Facebookers to overlay images with text in a variety of colours, and access preview filters to see how their snaps will look. As an […]

Social media can be a fickle beast. Today's red-hot platform can be tomorrow's AskJeeves. One of the most popular in 2014 was Snapchat, the paired-down app that lets users send photos and videos that subsequently self-destruct. As we approach the halfway mark of 2015, we're having a look into how Snapchat is travelling. It's a

Snapchat has announced it will now allow brands to purchase and customise its geofilter feature for advertising campaigns. Location, location Geofilters were first rolled out in December 2014, and allow users to add a location-themed overlay to photos and video. For example, a geofilter of the Eiffel Tower might overlay snaps of a trip to

While Snapchat might have been the hottest platform of 2014, hard stats are still hard to come by.   After a fair bit of social sleuthing we’ve uncovered the latest facts about the photo sharing site. Oh snap Snapchat was first launched in September 2011 by Stanford University students Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie

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Snapchat joins the rest of the social advertising gang.

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Facebook launches – then pulls – its much mooted Snapchat killer.

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