Messaging app to pay users for most viral ‘snaps’ as it seeks to head off exodus to TikTok

The promise of viral fame has always been a lure for online content creators, but Snapchat hopes it has found a more immediate way of encouraging people to post pictures and videos: a share of a daily $1m (£747,000) prize.

The messaging app is to begin paying its users for their most viral snaps, as the platform moves to head off a feared exodus to TikTok with a new feed of user-generated content.

Continue reading…

You May Also Like

Deal or no deal: where is Brexit heading? – podcast

With talks ongoing between the EU and UK over the final Brexit…

Dell’s New Laptop-Tablet Hybrid Is Great—but Pricey

First, there was the iPad. Then Microsoft’s Surface came along and showed…

Barbados elects first president as island drops Queen as head of state

Caribbean nation elects governor-general to new role as former colony becomes a…