13. It was initially called
Pictaboo.
The ghost was launched by
Evan, which is still in use.
Spiegel was the CEO, Murphy
was the CTO and Reggie
Brown was the CMO
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23. 60 interest categories
like parenting, political
news, music festivals
and more based on
signals
Basic( age and gender)
and advanced
( household speakers,
moms and college
graduates )
Target by device,
operating system,
carrier and cellular
connectivity (like Wifi
or 3G)
Target an audience by
country, state, region
or designated market
area
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25. Unique selling point is
that it is cool, new, and
has created its
own advertising "curre
ncy’’
Companies need
Snapchat to do more
to prove its ads
actually drive sales.
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26. Snapchat has
rebranded to Snap Inc
to reflect its new
direction as a "camera
company".
The rebrand comes a
year after Snap Inc.
launched its ad
business. It now sells
ads on its Discover and
Stories platforms.
Snap Inc.
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28. Channels — like
Stories — are
refreshed every 24
hours.
Each channel typically
includes 5-10 pieces of
content.
Quick, entertaining
rundown of your
friend's day.
Read the latest
headlines from CNN,
Mashable, and more.
Content posted here
comes from editorial
entities — CNN,
Mashable, Vice, etc.
— not Snapchatters.
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29. Live Stories are curated snaps surrounding a
particular event. Snapchat pulls user-
submitted photos and videos to form a story.
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30. Spread snaps
and share it with
a creative and
quirky filter.
These are paid
by local owners,
brands etc.
Turnaround time for
a review is roughly a
day, and pricing
begins at $5.
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39. In 2016, Snapchat was sued by Canadian company Investel for
infringement on its geofiltering patent
Investel Capital Corp. has filed suit against Snapchat, Inc. in the
Federal Court of Canada "seeking remedies in the form of
monetary damages for past infringement, as well as injunctive
relief prohibiting Snapchat, Inc. from continuing to infringe the
patent
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46. Acquisition for $64.2 million
Allows you to make personalized cartoons of
you and your friends.
Your Bitmoji avatar is your digital identity.
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47. • Vergence Lab
Acquisition
• $129.99
Cost
• Upto 100 video snaps – 9 seconds each –charges in special case
Battery
• LED ring on after pressing button on right side
• 10 seconds countdown-stores
• Snap temporarily using internal storage of device
Camera
• Effective audio recording but noisy with high windy movement
Audio
• Snaps sent over Bluetooth after sync
• Saves to Memories of Snapchat app
Tech Link
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48. Paris based startup bought in 2016
Exist in Snapchat app as Snap Map feature
Used for location sharing and Location based content
discovery.
It only pulls your location when you use the app
Constant use of GPS in the background to locate friends on a
map
Tag using Bitmoji avatar at a location
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49. Digital Stickers or Filter over a photo in a particular geographical location
The smartphone’s GPS pick up where the user is at a given time, and the appropriate
illustration specific to where they are by city, neighborhood, or even store i
Types of Geo-Filters
On-demand Geo-filters for events
Sponsored Geo-filters for marketing brands
McDonalds first brand to try “Sponsored Geo-filters”
Geo-filters features :
Anyone can pay Snapchat to create their own custom geo-filter
A specific area for a set amount of time
A minimum size of 5,000 square feet
A minimum duration of 30 minutes
Turnaround time for a review is roughly a day
Pricing begins at $5
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50. Acquisition of Vurb in 2017
A search app for smartphones
Snapchat Stories are now searchable.
The stories just have to be added to Snapchat’s Our Story
group montage to be searchable
It relies on machine learning to categorize stories
It’s specifically analyzing caption text, time,
and visual elements
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51. The stories just have to be added to Snapchat’s Our Story
group montage to be searchable
It relies on machine learning to categorize stories
It’s specifically analyzing caption text, time, and visual
elements
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52. Acquisition of Scan.me
Known as QR Snapcodes
$14 million in cash, $3 million in restricted stock units and $33
million in Class B common Snapchat stock
Users can create a unique Snapcode for a website, which will
open inside Snapchat when they scan it with the app’s camera.
Businesses can promote themselves with photographable
symbols instead of just a URL.
They made it easy for people to add each other on Snapchat
without typing in user names
Hold 100 times more data than 1D barcodes
They can also be digitally scanned
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53. To implement
Snap Map –location based marking while using Snapchat
Geo Filters- custom location-based filters within a certain
area and time
Voice Filters- users remix their voices with predefined
voices after recording a snap
PaperClip Tool - sending a website link
Backdrop and Scissor Tool- a crop feature that lets you cut
a selected area in your snap and apply colourful patterns
QR Snapcode- 2D Barcode
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Merger and Acquisition to make the snapchat app effective
Looksery's computer vision tech allows for facial recognition and modification in real time, which is what Snapchat's lenses do.
Facial recognition works through the Viola-Jones algorithm, which identifies the light and contour patterns that make up a human face. The bridge of the nose is always lighter than the sides, for example. And the centre of the forehead is lighter than the sides, and much lighter than the eye sockets.
The markings delineate where specific facial features begin and end, and how their shapes are formed.
After the lens is fitted onto your face, though, the app has even more work to do. It needs to adjust the lens to move with your face, as you rotate, move, and turn it, and it has to do it for every frame of video and in real time. The algorithm does this using the point mask it created of your face. It uses every point on the mask as a coordinate, to make a 3D mesh that perfectly covers all your features.
Another, slightly more sinister, use for this technology is facial detection. Facebook, Google, and intelligence agencies are amassing humongous databases of faces, in order to help with surveillance and identification. The problem with this is that there aren't any laws that regulate this activity.
I mean, that isn't going to stop be from putting a flower crown on my selfie, but it's good to know.
Snapchat could use Seene’s format for a brand new category of selfie lenses, a new 3D photo format, and potentially for future virtual reality projects.
Seene scans and reconstructs full 3D geometry on your phone.
Seene doesn’t need special infrared sensors and multiple cameras. Similarly, Seene doesn’t need a cloud backend to process 3D scans and recreate 3D objects — everything happens on the phone.
Most augmented reality apps use your phone’s camera to recognize a 2D image (a QR code for instance) and inject a 3D object on your phone display. Seene can go a step further as it can inject 3D objects around real life things.
Snapchat acquired Looksery to power its selfie lenses. Combining Looksery’s technology with Seene’s technology would allow Snapchat to create more complex lenses with a real sense of depth.
Seene also works with the camera at the back of your phone to capture 3D scenes. Combined with your phone’s accelerometers, it creates a sort of hybrid between a photo and a video; something more interactive.
Rapid face detection
Computer vision allowing-image processing which leads to face recognition using Viola Janes Algorithm
Active Shape Model mapping the face as per a standard face structure points.
3D model mapping to achieve face contour adjustment as per user and work with any distance .
Superimposition of the filter over the face with depth and sense of distance .
Bitstrips for $64.2 million
Snapchat had previously allowed users to choose to set a Bitmoji as their profile if they wanted to, but the new change seems to automatically set it, removing your old image whether you wanted to or not. Users who haven’t created Bitmoji seem to be unaffected, and are able to continue to use the old profile pictures as usual.
Bitmoji adds that identity, it is not a fad. I believe with all my heart this is an inevitable evolution of communication.
Bitmojis could add a way to express how users feel when they aren't taking a selfie.
Snapchat, which relies on advertisers for most of its revenue, likely sees bitmojis as another unique way to sell sponsorships
Story Search, QR Snapcodes and its Spectacles glasses were all based off its acquisitions of Vurb, Scan.me and Vergence Labs,
There is an LED inside the right side of the Spectacles (behind the camera) that begins counting down the 10 seconds in a circular ring, showing you how much time you have left to snap. You can shoot around 100 ten-second clips using the Spectacles’ internal storage before you have to connect them to your phone and transfer them over.
extremely wide angle and have that “Point Of View” feel becoming more and more common in cameras and VR/AR systems.
The Spectacles dump the pics automatically and drop into Snapchat’s Memories section.
enormous break in narrative technique from centuries of film and photography. Traditionally, eye contact with the camera was considered something to be avoided as it breaks immersion. With POV cameras, however, you’re placed into the narrative and have to come to grips with the fact that you’re a character.
It’s interesting that Snap is letting them get out to customers via a vending machine near its headquarters, rather than shipping them to traditional tech reviewers or press to fondle — but it makes a ton of sense to me. Interesting strategy for an interesting company.
Paris-based startup
see where their friends currently are on a map using constant GPS in the background. People can then message these friends in the app to make plans to hang out.
Snapchat launched its Snap Map location-sharing and location-based content discovery feature. It works slightly differently, only pulling your location when you open the app,
$250 million to $350 million
Unique acquisition where Zenly is not absorbed in Snap Inc but is running autonomously
There is less clarity about the acquisition
a digital sticker or badge you can add to each snap you take with most only available is specific geolocations. It’s also a form of marketing based on your locale or region where segmented audiences can be reached. Snapchat users are able to share your logo or event info without having any contact or interference from the sponsor or brand.
While the on-demand (paid) geo-filters are a bit more serious, there are also hundreds of thousands of community geo-filters (free) always available and always changing with your location. They’re also easy to create, but some strict and there are some vague guidelines each one must pass before it’s ready to use.
In other words, geofilters let mobile users add a location illustration — specific to where they are by city, neighborhood, or even store — to photos that they may then share with friends or followers via Snapchat. The smartphone’s location signals pick up where the user is at a given time, and the appropriate geofilter is offered based on this location.
Snapchat first expanded its ad options in June 2015, launching “sponsored geofilters” for brand locations. McDonald’s was the first to try it out, and the fast-food chain paid to make custom filters — illustrations of McDonald’s cheeseburgers and pouches of fries, among others — available to Snapchat users while they were in its physical locations.
With on-demand geofilters, anyone can pay Snapchat to create their own custom geofilter in a specific area for a set amount of time, with a minimum size of 5,000 square feet and a minimum duration of 30 minutes. Turnaround time for a review is roughly a day, and pricing begins at $5.
Now, as a result of the on-demand filter addition, local SMBs can use Snapchat as their own marketing channel without prohibitive expense. Social media is already an integral part of many local businesses’ marketing strategies, due to the fact that it is low cost and easily managed in-house — and Snapchat is well positioned to become a more significant tool in the arsenal.
Additionally, users are likely send more snaps from a given location if it provides an interesting or artistic geofilter. This increases publicity for the given business in a way that’s set to drive foot-traffic; would-be customers can’t buy directly from Snapchat (at least, not yet), nor can they get the geo-filter for the pictures unless they actually go to the physical location.
Story Search, QR Snapcodes and its Spectacles glasses were all based off its acquisitions of Vurb, Scan.me and Vergence Labs,
Story Search, QR Snapcodes and its Spectacles glasses were all based off its acquisitions of Vurb, Scan.me and Vergence Labs,
Acquisition of Scan.me
Known as QR Snapcodes
$14 million in cash, $3 million in restricted stock units and $33 million in Class B common Snapchat stock
Users can create a unique Snapcode for a website, which will open inside Snapchat when they scan it with the app’s camera. This could create a powerful way for businesses and other sites to promote themselves with photographable symbols instead of just a URL.
They made it easy for people to add each other on Snapchat without typing in user names
e)QR code is the trademark name for the two dimensional barcode system.other hand, can not only hold 100 times more data than 1D barcodes—they can also be digitally scanned.
Geofilters, Backdrops, new voice filters, Paperclip tool. Another feature is the Voice filter that will let users remix their voices with predefined voices after recording a snap.
The Snapchat Voice filter is an interactive filter that lets you remix your voice in the snap with a range of predefined character, animal, and other voices.
Snapchat's Paperclip is very handy tool when it comes to sending a website link to your friends while sending a snap. Tapping on the Paperclip will open a URL bar where you can input the website link and hit enter. Snapchat will make the use of Google's Safe Browsing service to scan it for potential threats and will provide an option to attach it to your snap.
Stories look pics/gifs
Facebook's clones
User growth FB vs Insta vs Snapchat
“Masks” vs “Face Filters”
Geostickers
Was Spectacles just for IPO?
Loyal user base
43% revenue from “Discover”
Academics, tours
Loyal user base
43% revenue from “Discover”
Exclusive content deals - future as a news and media company?
Discovery Communications - mobile-first” series and exclusive content based on hit programming like Shark Week and MythBusters.
Original content, including an August deal with NBCUniversal to bring Snapchat-only content from shows like The Voice and Saturday Night Live