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Snapchat seamlessly combines video, audio, GIFs, stickers in “Chat 2.0”
- shostack 11y ago>"Snapchat Stories now auto-advance, so when you get to the end of watching a friend’s Story or swipe left, the next Story in your list starts playing for easy lean-back watching that should boost view counts and encourage posting." This is something I've seen other video sites do (like Youtube). I don't like the fact that they mention boosting view counts here, because while this is not for advertising directly per se, my first thought as a performance marketer who is always suspicious of my metrics, is that this is them "juicing view counts" and will lead to a higher amount of low-quality views (and potentially ad impression?). All too often what happens is the next thing loads (triggering an impression/view/etc.) and that gets counted despite someone closing out of it immediately because they did not want to immediately go to the next thing. I might be missing something here, but on the surface, depending on how this ties in with advertising, that's a big concern I'd have.