Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round

Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by argonaut on Thursday May 26, 2016 @06:19PM (#11782150)

Yeah but I seriously doubt that will drive them to $1B in revenue. They need one big cash cow rather than a collection of trinkets.

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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by ivanca on Friday May 27, 2016 @01:05AM (#11784011)

They may learn to use those trinkets. Just imagine a button that says `Buy for $0.20 the X-Men Wolverine Mask filter` or just detecting user patterns: They detect an user mostly uses cat-faces filters, so they try to sell her cat-faces filters. Or that her snap-chats are mostly on restaurants, so they show her some restaurant ads with the same color filters she likes.

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Re:Snapchat raised $1.8B in a Series F round by jaywunder on Friday May 27, 2016 @09:03AM (#11785696)

They already tried to sell filters. I think selling filters didn't go well because filters are free now.

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