Snapchat is set to cash in on its surreal selfies. Eight months after securing 20th Century Fox for its first sponsored lens to promote The Peanuts Movie, the number of marketers signing on for Snapchat's bespoke ...
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Technology Today
July 11, 2016
14 brands have purchased them in 5 weeks
By Lauren Johnson
Snapchat is set to cash in on its surreal selfies. Eight months after securing 20th Century Fox for its first sponsored lens to promote The Peanuts Movie, the number of marketers signing on for Snapchat's bespoke ...
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How can brands break through?
By Christian L. Tom
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Underscores growing importance of social video
By Lauren Johnson
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End-to-end encryption will give users more privacy
By Marty Swant
In a move taken straight from Mission: Impossible—or straight from Snapchat—Facebook has begun testing a way for Messenger users to send encrypted conversations that disappear after a certain period ...
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Water is Life turned $10 into $800
By Lauren Johnson
It's no surprise that nonprofits operate on shoestring-sized budgets and are constantly working to recruit a new generation of millennial donors. But Water is Life, a charity focused on providing clean water ...
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App's first 'dual lens' campaign
By Lauren Johnson
Despite poor initial reactions to the YouTube trailer for this summer's Ghostbusters reboot, Sony Pictures is pulling out all the bells and whistles to promote the movie—including a big push on Snapchat ...
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Brand leans on consumers to start conversation
By Lauren Johnson
Plenty of brands have launched one-off apps in an attempt to get onboard with the emoji craze, but L'Oréal hopes to make emojis part of a longer-term discussion about beauty trends and culture.
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Messaging app wants brands and games to go viral
By Marty Swant
Kik is launching a way for users to share chatbots with friends by allowing them to "invite" other users to try out various games, news organizations and brands on the the messaging app.
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A collagelike function for its growing user base
By Christopher Heine
Snapchat has been hinting for some time that it doesn't want to be known as an "ephemeral app" anymore, even taking a bit of umbrage with the notion lately.
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