Snapchat’s parent company has confirmed a restructuring of the business which will see it cut staff numbers by around 20%. Snap Inc chief executive and Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel said the changes would allow the technology company to focus on “three strategic priorities” of community growth, revenue growth and augmented reality. Alongside the reduction in […]
Snapchat is introducing a new in-app tool to enable parents to get more insights on how their teenagers use Snapchat without compromising their children’s privacy. Family Centre will show parents their children’s friend list and who is communicating with them – but it will not show the content of conversations. The opt-in tool will require […]
Facebook is 12 years old today and it’s certainly made an impact. Tom Hopkins from One Productions, a video production company based in Dublin, has put together this infographic to mark the occasion. Video marketing and social media go hand in hand, and he says the following points are worth noting: 1.5 billion people use the main core Facebook service, […]
The finalists have been announced for The Maximum Media Social Media Awards (The Sockies), to be held on Wednesday June 3rd in the RDS Concert Hall. The premier awards show in Ireland for all things digital marketing and social media, there are 27 categories this year covering areas such as Facebook, Twitter, Business categories, Campaigns and […]
SpunOut.ie, Ireland’s youth information website, has partnered with social networking platform Twitter to launch a new ‘Online Safety Information Hub’ to mark Safer Internet Day 2015 (February 10th). Each year the global online safety community celebrates Safer Internet Day to raise awareness of the steps we can all take to make the internet a better […]
Why is it that things we’d never dream about doing in the cold light of day suddenly seem like excellent ideas at 2am, after a night out, with some alcohol on board. OK it’s a rhetorical question, we know exactly why that is; yet it doesn’t stop many of us from doing – and especially saying […]
Snapchat have announced a partnership with Square, allowing Snapchat users to send cash to each other. The service is available to US users over 18. [youtube]http://youtu.be/kBwjxBmMszQ[/youtube] A security breach in January led to the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million users being published. Snapchat’s announcement makes it very clear that they will not be storing debit […]
Yesterday we published the Ipsos MRBI’s infographic of their latest Social Networking Quarterly Survey of Ireland. They also published the Social Messaging Quarterly Survey, with similarly interesting results. Of 1000 people aged 15 and over, 50% have a Skype account; yet only 7% of them use it daily. Viber, Whatsapp and Snapchat have all shown steady growth over the past […]
A security leak from Snapchat has seen seen 4.6m usernames and corresponding phone numbers leaked, but so far there is no indication that it includes any users outside of the US and some Canadian area-codes. It’s impossible to say whether data on users outside the US was also obtained but not published. Those who published […]
