Snap launches paid version of Snapchat app

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-Snap Inc on Wednesday launched a paid model of the Snapchat app within the U.S., priced at $3.99 a month, and some different markets, in a significant step away from a income mannequin dependent totally on promoting.

Snap, which had teased the subscription model, Snapchat+, earlier this month, mentioned it could be obtainable in Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates at launch. (https://reut.rs/3nskBOM)

Social media corporations are below strain as firms in the reduction of on advert budgets in response to rising prices and weakening client spending.

Final month, Snap mentioned it could miss income and revenue targets for the second quarter and must gradual hiring and decrease spending, sending its shares down over 40% in a single day.

Preliminary options within the paid model embody the flexibility to vary the app’s icon, see who re-watched a narrative and pin different customers on chat historical past as a “BFF“, Snap’s senior vice chairman of product, Jacob Andreou, advised tech information website The Verge. (https://bit.ly/3ytXvh2)

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