Snapchat, Twitch and Wish are the top-ranking apps among Generation Z, the world’s first demographic group to grow up on smartphones. Read more…
YouTube, Facebook, Snapchat and newcomer TikTok offer a breadth of video opportunities, but each has distinct user habits and requires unique strategies for capturing attention. Read more…
Spotify reported a surprise profit as the streaming giant’s ad revenue rose 29% to $189 million in Q3 from a year earlier. Read more…
Google’s parent company Alphabet reported a 17% gain in ad revenue to a record $33.9 billion in Q3 from a year earlier. Read more…
Virtual assistants that respond to voice queries are less capable of answering questions correctly than they were two years ago. Google Assistant is shaping up to be the smartest kid in summer school as virtual assistants become less effective at answering questions. Read more…
Apple Pay this year will overtake coffee chain Starbucks in providing the most popular mobile payment method for shoppers at U.S. stores. Read more…
Snap’s Q3 revenue grew 50% year-over-year as its image-messaging app Snapchat added users and the company released more software tools to entice advertisers. Read more…
Social video app TikTok removed about two dozen accounts that showed Islamic State propaganda including corpses paraded through streets, gun-toting militants and women who described themselves as “jihadist and proud.” Read more…
Wendy’s debuted three branded video games in a new digital arcade launched by Giphy, the platform of shareable GIF clips. Read more…
Sales of 5G smartphones will exceed 1 billion worldwide by 2025 as electronics companies make handsets with a broader range of prices and wireless carriers continue to build out their next-generation networks. Read more…