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Snap Inc has announced that its direct revenue division has reached a $1billion annualised revenue run rate, highlighting the growing contribution of paid subscriptions to the company’s overall business. The milestone is driven by Snapchat+, the platform’s premium tier, which now has more than 25 million subscribers globally. Launched in late 2022, Snapchat+ was originally seen as an early-access offering for highly engaged users. It has since expanded into a broader subscription product offering additional features for a monthly fee. The development shows Snap’s efforts to diversify its revenue streams at a time when digital advertising markets remain volatile. Snapchat has more than 946 million monthly active users worldwide, according to the company. Within that base, Snapchat+ offers features focused on customisation and interface changes, such as pinned friends, personalised chat backgrounds and additional Bitmoji options. In addition to Snapchat+, Snap has introduced other paid products. Lens+ provides subscribers with access to certain artificial intelligence and augmented reality tools. Snapchat Platinum offers a reduced-ad experience, while Memories Storage Plans allow users who exceed 5GB of stored content to purchase additional storage capacity. The company has also rolled out Creator Subscriptions, enabling users to pay individual creators for exclusive content and

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Stream Hatchet’s 2025 annual report shows over 36 billion hours watched across platforms, with platform fragmentation accelerating Live streaming viewership reached 36.4 billion hours watched in 2025, a 6% year-over-year increase that brought the industry close to its 2021 pandemic-era peak of 37.1 billion hours, according to Stream Hatchet‘s “2025 Live Streaming Trends Report.” The growth rate, while positive, represented a deceleration from the 15% increase recorded in 2024. Platform Power Struggle Twitch remained the most-watched live streaming platform with 19.2 billion hours watched, but its market share fell 8.3 percentage points over the course of the year. The platform recorded three consecutive quarterly declines in viewership, and Q4’s 4.4 billion hours were the lowest since Q1 2020. Viewership from Twitch’s top creators fell 14.5% year-over-year, with streamers Baiano and Gaules transitioning to YouTube Gaming and Kick. The report attributes part of the decline to a mid-year platform policy change. “In July, Twitch announced that it would be implementing a series of measures to combat viewbotting,” the report states, noting this contributed to a drop in unique channels. At 8.4 million unique channels in Q4, Twitch recorded its lowest figure since Q1 2020. YouTube Gaming posted its highest annual viewership

Oprah Winfrey just reached an exciting milestone in her fitness journey. Two years ago, the media mogul set a goal for herself when she started strength training. Now, at the age of 72, she's exceeded her own expectations. On Feb. 17, Winfrey shared a video of herself hitting the gym in 2024 and 2026 to display the progress she's made. At the beginning of the video, Winfrey described why she was inspired to start strength training. “As we age, and we want to age well, one of the things I’ve learned is that flexibility and strength is the most important, particularly for women and our bones. And so I’ve started strength training,” she said. At the time, Winfrey's goal was to successfully lift a weight while completing a plank, a move otherwise known as a renegade row. "And to do it where I'm not dying," she teased. In video footage of her early forays into planks, Winfrey was seen struggling to hold the position after staying in place for 10 seconds. Flash forward to present day, and the 72-year-old has totally nailed her goals. In the video, she can be seen holding the move with ease and saying, "I can

Just before Valentine's Day, Allison Holker, widow of the late Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, announced that she was engaged to her boyfriend Adam Edmunds. But what should be a blissful era for anyone else has seemingly been overshadowed by yet another family feud behind the scenes three years after her husband's death. Boss, best known for being Ellen DeGeneres' sidekick on her TV show, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Los Angeles motel at the age of 40 in December 2022. Since then, Holker, 38, has attempted to pick up the pieces and care for their children Maddox, nine, and Zaia, six, as well as her daughter Weslie, 17, whom tWitch had adopted and helped raise. Two months after tWitch's passing, Holker released a memoir, This Far: My Story of Love, Loss and Embracing the Light. Members of the Boss family, however, said they were blindsided by some of the claims she made about the late performer, and they alleged they were forced to sign an NDA prior to his funeral. Now, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal more accusations Holker faces, as unveiled in a scathing lawsuit filed by tWitch's mother, Connie Boss Alexander. She sought the court's

Move over, Julio and Ichiro. There’s a new pair of best friends at Seattle Mariners spring training that’s getting all the attention. Seattle Mariners have an approach to spring training with WBC looming Usually this time of year, we see the annual social media post of M’s All-Star center fielder Julio Rodríguez and Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki playing catch, because it’s always fun to remember that they’re regular throwing partners even though one is a 25-year-old active superstar and the other is a 52-year-old legend now almost seven years removed from his last MLB game. And true to form, we got that social media post on Tuesday morning, the same day the full Mariners squad reported to spring camp at the team’s complex in Peoria, Ariz. J-Rod's throwing partner? It's Ichiro Suzuki 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Oq3Pfpga4P — MLB (@MLB) February 17, 2026 But that post was beaten by about an hour by a video of a new favorite pairing in camp: first baseman Josh Naylor and the Mariners’ official clubhouse dog,  » Read More

Amber Glenn devastatingly finished in 13th place in the women’s short program in figure skating on Tuesday. The medal-hopeful failed to execute one of her jumps, causing her to earn a zero in a category to drop her score. She was noticeably in tears coming off the ice. It was difficult to watch Glenn struggle with how her performance panned out. Fans began worrying about her well-being, especially when the cameras turned off. Glenn updated her fans on how she was doing in a unique way on Tuesday evening by sharing a post on her Instagram stories. The post showed a picture of a smiling dog with the words “the world has ended for me many times and yet tomorrow still comes. keep going.” amber 🥺🤍 pic.twitter.com/rA4lz6unzL — sofiya (@ghafaera) February 18, 2026 Glenn’s time at the Milan Cortina Olympics isn’t over yet—she will perform in the women’s free skate on Thursday. Her chances of medaling aren’t zero percent, but she would have to outscore most of her competition in order to reach the podium. Glenn scored 67.39 in the short program, while Japan’s Ami Nakai sits in first with a score of 78.71. Glenn opened up about her mental

Chris Hill, The Motley Fool Updated Fri, July 15, 2016 at 1:47 AM UTC The following video is from Friday's Motley Fool Money roundtable discussion, with host Chris Hill and analysts Jason Moser, James Early, and Ron Gross. In this segment, shares of LinkedIn jumped up 18% on Friday morning, after fourth-quarter profit rose 66%. The business networking site added 15M new members ... two per second for the quarter. The company also became the thirteenth most-visited website in the world. The guys discuss LinkedIn's moat, and whether it's larger than Facebook's , and if it can keep up this level of growth. LinkedIn is finally coming into its own, and leaving behind the stigma created by the ultimate social network, Facebook. After the world's most hyped IPO turned out to be a dunce, most investors probably don't even want to think about shares of Facebook. But there are things that every investor needs to know about this company. We've outlined them in our newest premium research report. There's a lot more to Facebook than meets the eye, so read up on whether there is anything to "like" about it today, and we'll tell you whether we think Facebook deserves