All Those Kik Pics From Strangers Will Now Be Blurred
Performance Marketing
Mobile messaging app Kik is giving users new controls to protect against unwanted anonymous advances, the company said today. The app will censor images from strangers to limit lewd content [...]
Twitter Redesign Speaks to Users and Brands With Emojis, Vine Messenger, Video, Ads
Performance Marketing
Twitter’s new look is rolling out more widely today, and it has some users saying it looks similar to Facebook. The messaging service is making changes to solve its most [...]
Skype’s Message to Facebook and WhatsApp: Millennial Use Growing
Performance Marketing
Skype is making its case to marketers that it is hip with millennials, that highly coveted youth demographic. Skype now counts more than 300 million users and said it reaches [...]
BlackBerry Messenger Debuts Slate of Ad Products
Performance Marketing
BlackBerry is introducing ads and virtual stickers into its messenger app as it tries to squeeze value from its core communication service. BlackBerry executives were in New York last week [...]
Messaging App Tango Raises $280 Million
Performance Marketing
Tango is the latest messaging app to attract big dollars, with Alibaba Group leading a fundraising roun
Shhhh! Don’t Tell Anyone: Whisper, Secret Apps at SXSW
Performance Marketing
Clandestine apps are having a SXSW moment, with Whisper and Secret in Austin discussing how they are putting the anonymity back into online. On the surface they have similar uses: [...]