The social media app, Snapchat, which has a global base of 332 million users has announced the launch of a paid subscription package called Snapchat+. The company is following the paths of other social media giants, including Twitter, Telegram and WhatsApp, who have announced paid plans. Snapchat is offering exclusive features at a price of $3.99 a month.
The features
- Snapchat+ enables an account owner to know which user re-watched the account owner’s uploaded stories.
- Another distinguishing feature of Snapchat+ is the ability to customize the app’s icon. Also, Snapchat+ will grant a special badge to subscribers and allow subscribers to pin a friend as the number one friend.
- Where a friend shares their location with a subscriber, the latter can see “the general direction of travel to where friends have moved recently.”
What they are saying
At the launch of Snapchat+, the company disclosed that the need for a subscription-based package was to grant a collection of exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features to the apps most passionate community. The social media app further lamented that the war in Ukraine has played a role in dipping its revenue targets even though it recorded revenue growth in Q1 2022.
What you should know
- For now, the subscription-based plan would be available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Other social media apps, including WhatsApp and Telegram, have also announced subscription-based plans with exclusive features