Snapchat

• Snapchat Unveils New ‘Spotlight Challenges’, Touting $25,000 Max Prize Pools
• Snapchat, Portal A Unveil Original Series About Esports Gambling Ring (Trailer)

  We’ve got a first look at Snapchat’s brand new Action Royale series, a Portal A-produced original starring Kim Coates (of Sons of Anarchy fame) alongside newcomers Haleigh Hekking and Nicholas Hamilton. 

  
• Here’s Why Snapchat Decreased Its Million-Dollar Daily Payments For ‘Spotlight’ Creators

  Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel says the reason that the company lessened creator payouts on its nascent Spotlight platform -- from $1 million daily to millions of dollars per month -- was to avoid repeat videos.

  
• Snapchat Adds 3 To Its Talent Partnerships Team

  Snapchat has made three global hires on its talent partnerships team, to facilitate relationships with creators and leverage its products -- from Stories to original shows to Spotlight.

  
• How Culinary Duo HellthyJunkFood Leveraged Snapchat To Expand Its Social Video Menu
• Snap Names Former Facebook Exec Konstantinos Papamiltiadis First VP Of Platform Partnerships
• Snapchat Posts Biggest Quarterly Growth In Users, Revenues Than It Has In 4 Years, Evan Spiegel Says
• Manny ‘MUA’ Gutierrez To Help Young LGBTQ+ People Come Out In Latest Snap Original
• Snap, Universal Music Group Sign Multiyear Deal Adding UMG’s Entire Song Library To Snapchat’s ‘Sounds’ Tool
• Snapchat Hires 2 TikTok Staffers To Beef Up ‘Spotlight’, Names Head Of Fashion And Beauty Partnerships
• Sean Mills, Snap’s Head Of Originals, Will Exit This Fall
• Snap Buys AR Display Firm WaveOptics For $500 Million, Its Biggest Acquisition To Date