Snapchat tripled its daily video views to 6 billion in 6 months

Snapchat is quickly gaining ground in the battle for dominance in video on social networks: it now claims a whopping six billion daily views, or triple the traffic it got in May, reports the Financial Times. For comparison, Facebook counts about eight billion views per day on both desktop and mobile. Snapchat is catching up quick and managing to do so with only a mobile app. With marketers pouring more ad dollars into video, it’s an important milestone for Snapchat. eMarketer forecasts a 42 percent increase in digital video revenues this year to over $7.5 billion in the US alone. Snapchat CEO Evan…

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