{"id":19188,"date":"2020-06-14T06:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/snapchat-looks-to-maintain-its-own-friendships-with-devs.html"},"modified":"2020-06-14T06:32:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T06:32:52","slug":"snapchat-looks-to-maintain-its-own-friendships-with-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/snapchat-looks-to-maintain-its-own-friendships-with-devs.html","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat looks to maintain its own friendships \u2014 with devs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past<\/span> few years, Snapchat has been building up an increasingly complex weave of partnerships.<\/p>\n

They have their advertising partners that power the vast majority of their monetization efforts. They have app developers on Snap <\/a> Kit that they are also selling new features like CameraKit and Minis too. They\u2019re bringing game developers on board for their Snap Games initiative, including another partnership with Zynga, which they announced today. They\u2019re also continuing to chase mobile-first original content programming for Snapchat Discover. Sometimes these distinctions can create grey areas. For instance, in a conversation with TechCrunch, Ben Schwerin, Snap\u2019s VP of Partnerships, insists Snapchat <\/a> isn\u2019t competitive with Quibi, which is an advertising partner.<\/p>\n

\u201cComparing Quibi and Snapchat \u2014 and I know it\u2019s easy to do \u2014 is like comparing cable TV and Snapchat,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Snapchat is perhaps better positioned than any other app in the United States to replicate what Tencent\u2019s WeChat has pulled off in China, turning a friend-to-friend messaging app into a national platform. Snap is still a long way from pulling that off, but on Thursday at their annual Snap Partner Summit, they shared some of the required building blocks for making that happen, namely richer third-party experiences via upgrades to their developer kit and a new initiative called Snap Minis.<\/p>\n

Snap says they now have 800 developers that have integrated with Snap Kit and that a combined 150 million users access these integrations on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., developers have had a largely frayed relationship with social media companies. Companies like Facebook <\/a> and Twitter have significantly locked down many of the developer capabilities they launched with, often turning off features that were key to developer experiences overnight. Snapchat\u2019s dedicated developer platform Snap Kit is only two years old at this point, but witnessing the pitfalls faced by Facebook in regard to privacy has allowed Snap to build out a platform that brings developers into the fold with certain features but keeps the real treasure \u2014 Snapchat\u2019s social graph \u2014 buried inside its walled garden.<\/p>\n

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