TikTok announces TikTok Avatars, similar to Snap's Bitmoji and Apple's Memoji, letting users customize their appearance, add voice effects, and more
TikTok announced today that it's launching a new Avatars feature that is designed to help users showcase their individuality on the app.
Snap reports Q1 revenue of $1.06B, up 38% YoY, vs. $1.07B est., global DAUs up 18% YoY to 332M vs. 330M est., and net loss up 25% YoY to $360M
if SNAP can catch a bid on those numbers in spite of its current sales/EPS multiples (faster user/revenue growth, but still), that suggests OK numbers from FB would be received quite well. Casey Neist...
Unity partners with Snap to extend the reach of Unity's ads and integrate SnapKit in Unity's game engine, including Bitmoji in 2021
Facebook brings Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, to the US after launching internationally last year
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Snapchat will launch Bitmoji TV, a personalized cartoon show featuring a user's avatar and their friends in regularly-scheduled adventures, starting in February
Snapchat's most popular yet under-exploited feature is finally getting the spotlight in 2020. Tweets: @counternotions , @mattlynley , @joshconstine , and @joshconstine Tweets: Kontra / @counternotions...
Snapchat is testing Cameos, a Bitmoji alternative that lets users replace the faces of people with selfies in Snapchat-made short looping videos
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Flashy Gen Z résumés, containing photos and bitmoji, are colliding with employer efforts to reduce hiring bias with systems that remove such embellishments
Employers see surge in Gen Z CVs containing photos and illustrations; 'there's a freaking bitmoji' Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @db , @antoniabmassa , @glassdoor , and @mattnavarra Tweets: Taylor Lorenz / ...
Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, launching the look-alike stickers feature today in Australia for use in Messenger and News Feed comments
Stickers that look like you — Ditch those generic emoji. Facebook's new Avatars feature lets you customize a virtual lookalike … Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine Tweets: Josh Constine / @jos...
Snapchat announces a new Bitmoji For Games SDK that will let select game developers integrate 3D Bitmoji as a replacement for their character skins
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Snapchat is testing Status, a Bitmoji on the Snap Map depicting what a user is doing, and Passport, a private compilation of Statuses, in Australia
Today's teens missed the Foursquare era, so Snapchat is giving them another shot with a new feature to aid in-person meetups.