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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSnap CEO: Digital ad recovery has been broad-based with a constructive economic backdropSnap CEO Evan Spiegel joins 'Money Movers' to discuss how much ad revenue acceleration was due to AI tools, the overall rebound in digital advertising, and what the expense guidance says about the company's plans.
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Snap shares surged 28% on Friday after the company surprised Wall Street by showing a profit and reported sales and user numbers that exceeded analysts' estimates. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of 3 cents, while analysts were expecting a 5-cent loss. Snap said adjusted EBITDA "exceeded our expectations" and was primarily driven by operating expense discipline, as well as accelerating revenue growth. Snap reported more than 9 million Snapchat+ subscribers for the period. For the second quarter, Snap expects to report revenue between $1.23 billion and $1.26 billion, up from the $1.22 billion expected by analysts, according to StreetAccount.
Persons: Derek Andersen, Evan Spiegel Organizations: Barker, Revenue, Snapchat, Meta Locations: Santa Monica , California
Analysts at the World Advertising Research Center forecast Snap's ad revenue will grow by 13.7% to $5.2 billion this year, up from a 0.1% increase in 2023. The biggest year-over-year growth is set to come from political and advocacy advertisers in the US, ahead of the November presidential election, WARC said. Beyond the political ad boost, Snap's expected return to double-digit revenue growth will be driven by the platform leaning on artificial intelligence for ad optimization, an improved content experience, and user growth, according to WARC. To be sure, with US political ad spend forecast to exceed $12 billion in 2024, according to Emarketer, Snap will be a drop in the ocean for most political advertisers. Traditional media still takes the lion's share of political ad dollars.
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The suit alleges that Meta , Snap , ByteDance and Google (whose parent company is Alphabet ) knowingly "designed, developed, produced, operated, promoted, distributed, and marketed their platforms to attract, capture, and addict youth, with minimal parental oversight." They claim that New York's school districts and various health and social services have been severely impacted by children who have suffered negative mental health consequences stemming from their use of popular social media apps. "In collaboration with youth, mental health and parenting experts, we've built services and policies to give young people age-appropriate experiences, and parents robust controls." New York's lawsuit echoes similar allegations made against Meta, Snap, TikTok and Alphabet in litigation filed in 2022 in the Northern District of California. Meanwhile, a coalition of over 40 attorneys general filed a joint federal lawsuit against Meta alleging that its products are addictive and harm mental health.
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Pinterest shares plummeted in extended trading on Thursday after the company issued a weaker-than-expected forecast and missed on revenue. Revenue : $981 million vs. $991 million expected, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. : $981 million vs. $991 million expected, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. Earnings: 53 cents per share, adjusted, vs. 51 cents per share expected, according to LSEG. Prior to Thursday's report, Pinterest shares were up 9.5% this year after surging 53% in 2023.
Persons: Pinterest, Bill Ready, Evan Spiegel Organizations: Revenue, Google Locations: Toronto , Ontario, Canada, LSEG, Ukraine
Snap CEO on revenue miss and light guidance
  + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailSnap CEO on revenue miss and light guidanceEvan Spiegel, Snap CEO, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the chief executive message to investors, the outlook for Snap's bottom line, and more.
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Watch CNBC's full interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel
  + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWatch CNBC's full interview with Snap CEO Evan SpiegelEvan Spiegel, Snap CEO, joins 'Money Movers' to discuss the chief executive message to investors, the outlook for Snap's bottom line, and how Spiegel will address the difference in size between Snap and Meta.
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Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snap Inc., speaks onstage during the Snap Partner Summit 2023 at Barker Hangar on April 19, 2023 in Santa Monica, California. Snap shares tanked 30% in Wednesday morning trading, a day after the company missed revenue estimates and issued light guidance in its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. Snap reported revenue of $1.36 billion for the quarter, slightly below the $1.38 billion expected by analysts, according to LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv. They noted that strong ad improvements and impression growth at Meta and Amazon could represent another headwind for Snap's ad revenue. "Stepping back, 4Q was a mixed bag, but the acceleration in 1Q gives us confidence that things are getting back on track," the analysts wrote.
Persons: Evan Spiegel, Morgan Stanley, — CNBC's Michael Bloom, Jonathan Vanian Organizations: Snap Inc, Barker, Meta, Barclays, 4Q, SNAP, JPMorgan, CNBC PRO Locations: Santa Monica , California
A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business’ Before the Bell newsletter. But America’s publicly traded companies are flashing a key sign of economic uncertainty — they’ve been hoarding cash. And companies with existing and expensive debt in a high-interest rate environment would likely want to use their cash to pay it down. “We interpret this correlation as evidence that cash reserves act like insurance against sudden economic shocks,” wrote the researchers. The missing bolts are apparently not the only problem.
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Revenue : $1.36 billion vs. $1.38 billion expected, according to LSEG. : $1.36 billion vs. $1.38 billion expected, according to LSEG. Global Daily Active Users : 414 million vs. 412 million expected, according to StreetAccount. : 414 million vs. 412 million expected, according to StreetAccount. Daily active users for the first quarter will be 420 million, Snap said, slightly topping analyst estimates of 419.3 million.
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New York CNN —Shares of Snapchat parent Snap plunged on Tuesday after the company reported a loss in the final three months of 2023. Snap reported a net loss of $248 million for the December quarter, an improvement from the same period in the prior year and a narrower loss than Wall Street analysts had expected. Still, shares fell as much as 30% in after-hours trading Tuesday. Snap said Monday that the layoffs were meant to “best position our business to execute on our highest priorities” and to “promote in-person” work. Daily active users grew 10% year-over-year in the December quarter to 414 million, with gains largely coming from outside the US and Europe.
Persons: Evan Spiegel, Apple’s Organizations: New, New York CNN, Wall Street, Facebook, Amazon Locations: New York, Europe
Meta is trouncing Snap in Digital ads — here's why
  + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
In this screengrab, CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel takes the stage at the virtual Snap Partner Summit 2021 on May 20, 2021 in Los Angeles. The online ad market is bouncing back. Snap reported an increase of just 5% year-over-year, its sixth straight quarter of single-digit growth or a decline in sales. For the first quarter, Snap projected revenue of $1.095 billion to $1.135 billion, which would equal growth of between about 11% and 15%. Broadly, the digital ad market is recovering from a brutal 2022, when soaring inflation and rising interest rates led brands to reel in spending.
Persons: Evan Spiegel, Meta, Jasmine Enberg Organizations: Snap Inc, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Insider Intelligence Locations: Los Angeles, Paris
Revenue for the three months ended Dec. 31 was $1.36 billion, up from $1.3 billion a year ago but below Wall Street projections of $1.38 billion for Snapchat’s parent company. Net losses for the fourth quarter narrowed to $248 million, from $288 million a year earlier. “2023 was a pivotal year for Snap, as we focused relentlessly on adding value to our community while evolving our business for long-term growth,” Evan Spiegel, the company’s chief executive, said in a letter to investors. On Monday, Snap laid off more than 500 workers, or about 10 percent of its global work force, part of a bigger wave of targeted cuts by tech companies this year. “While this decision was painful, and we will miss our friends and colleagues, we believe these changes are necessary to achieve our long-term goals” and manage expenses, Mr. Spiegel said in the letter.
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Snap's new mass layoff impacted workers in a range of roles across the company. Another perceived Snap in recent months as a company in "managed decline." C-suite executives who were hired or promoted, like Jerry Hunter and Jeremi Gorman, respectively, to build up and manage Snap's business, are gone and are not being replaced, as CEO Evan Spiegel is taking on oversight of the business. Engineering leaders, too, left the company in recent months. Snap has hired some new executives, like Patrick Harris, Ronan Harris, Darshan Kantak and Eric Young, but none are in the c-suite.
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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel attends the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 31, 2024. Social media company Snap said Monday that it will lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 500 employees, in part to "promote in-person collaboration." The company has executed multiple rounds of layoffs since 2022, most recently in November, when it trimmed a small number of product employees. Snap expects it will incur charges ranging from $55 million to $75 million, according to a regulatory filing. The company's last major round of cuts was in August 2022, when it laid off 20% of staff and restructured its business lines.
Persons: Evan Spiegel Organizations: Snap Inc, U.S . Capitol, Social Locations: Washington , U.S
The Snapchat company let go of several dozen staffers on Friday, according to two people familiar with the company. Many Snap employees took the memo as a hint that more company changes were coming. Staffers have been "on pins and needles" about layoffs in recent weeks, according to one of the people familiar with the company. In September, Snap let go of about 150 people after shutting down a short-lived division for creating augmented reality tools for businesses. Evercore senior managing director Mark Mahaney said in mid-January that "Snap has yet to snap back."
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New York CNN —Wednesday’s online youth safety hearing with some of the world’s leading social media CEOs was unlike the many that came before it in recent years. During the hearing, Zuckerberg and Spiegel, along with the CEOs of TikTok, Discord and X, also faced calls to meet with the families affected by their platforms. And Wednesday night, after the event, some parents said the apologies did not go far enough. X CEO Linda Yaccarino thanked the “parents, families, and young people” who attended the hearing in a post on the platform. “We just saw yesterday the extent of the damage that this has done, these platforms have done,” he said.
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Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc. Evan Spiegel attends the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, on January 31. In prepared testimony reviewed by CNN, Spiegel will say that on average, most Snapchat users connect directly with their friends. "We designed Snapchat to open into the camera, instead of a content feed, to encourage creativity instead of passive consumption," Spiegel will testify. "When people share their Story with friends on Snapchat there are no public likes or comments." A California judge recently ruled that Snap must face a lawsuit over children's fentanyl purchases linked to the app.
Persons: Evan Spiegel, Nathan Howard, Spiegel, Connecticut Democratic Sen, Richard Blumenthal, Tennessee Republican Sen, Marsha Blackburn Organizations: Snap Inc, U.S . Capitol, Reuters, CNN, Connecticut Democratic, Tennessee Republican Locations: Washington, California
Congress is set to grill leaders from Meta, X, TikTok, and other tech companies in a hearing Wednesday. The session will cover efforts to protect children from sexual exploitation online. This will be X CEO Linda Yaccarino's first time testifying before Congress. AdvertisementTech leaders are arriving in Washington, DC, voluntarily or not, to answer for their platforms' efforts to protect kids from sexual exploitation. Over the weekend, X announced plans to hire 100 full-time workers for a yet-to-be-opened content moderation hub in Austin aimed at addressing child sexual exploitation on its platform.
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Senators Grilled Tech Executives on Child Safety
  + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Five of the country’s most prominent tech executives appeared at a hearing today on Capitol Hill, where they were berated by lawmakers for creating “a crisis in America” by ignoring the spread of child sexual abuse material on their platforms. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent almost four hours needling the chief executives of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord. Some said the companies had “blood on their hands” and that users “would “die waiting” for them to make changes. The senators pressured the executives to say on the record if they support the Kids Online Safety Act, a bipartisan bill backed by dozens of senators but opposed by the A.C.L.U. Only Evan Spiegel of Snap and Linda Yaccarino of X said yes.
Persons: Evan Spiegel, Linda Yaccarino, X, Mark Zuckerberg, ” Zuckerberg Organizations: Meta, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Facebook Locations: America
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMeta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to parents at online child safety Senate hearingMark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, Evan Spiegel and other leading social media executives face tough questions from U.S. lawmakers concerned about child exploitation and safety on their services. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., presses Zuckerberg on social media's effects on families and children.
Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, Evan Spiegel, Sen, Josh Hawley, Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg is expected to tout the company’s more than 30 safety controls, according to prepared testimony released ahead of the hearing. In recent weeks, Meta has also begun hiding more “age-inappropriate” content in teens’ feeds and restricting teens from receiving direct messages from people they don’t follow. Ideally, Clegg said, Zuckerberg would authorize as many as 124 new hires, but acknowledged that financial pressures could make it difficult. After months of radio silence from Zuckerberg, Clegg tried to follow up, this time with a slimmed-down proposal that envisioned either 25 new hires or, if even that was infeasible, just seven. “This would be the bare minimum needed to meet basic policymaker inquiries,” Clegg wrote to Zuckerberg on Nov. 10, 2021.
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US lawmakers grilled CEOs from tech giants on their platform's online safety practices. Senators appeared to be bullish on whether the tech CEOs support their proposed laws. AdvertisementUS lawmakers grilled tech CEOs about their companies' online safety practices during this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation. During the hearing, which kicked off on Wednesday, US lawmakers were seen interrogating CEOs at tech giants like Meta, TikTok, and X on how they run their platforms and keep them safe. Advertisement"I hope you hear what is being offered to you and are prepared to step up and do better," Butler told the Meta CEO.
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Mark Zuckerberg, Linda Yaccarino, Evan Spiegel and other leading social media executives face a grilling on Wednesday from lawmakers concerned about child exploitation and safety on their services. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have blasted the companies for failing to properly address what some have called a "plague of online child sexual exploitation" on social media apps. Wednesday's hearing is focused specifically on issues pertaining to child exploitation and the prevalence of child sexual abuse material on social media. The social media executives are expected to detail their efforts combating child exploitation on their platforms, which include working with law enforcement and tasks like proactively identifying potential predators. Watch: Early Meta platforms investor Brad Gerstner tackles big tech ahead of key earnings week
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