Snapchat is doubling down on its biggest differentiator by turning its personalized avatar Bitmoji into a revenue stream and a new source of content. Snapchat is launching a Bitmoji merchandise store you can customize with you and your friends’ cartoonified faces, Bitmoji Stories comic strips featuring you and friends’ avatars in fun scenes, and a new Friendship profile that collect all the content you and a friend have saved from your Snap message thread.
The new features could help earn Snapchat money to reduce its still-massive quarterly losses, get Snap’s brand out in public, and give people new ways to spend more time on Snapchat when it’s otherwise been losing users.
The Bitmoji merchandise store opens today in the US with $2 stickers, $15 coffee mugs, $16 t-shirts and notebooks, $27 sweatshirts and more that you can personalize by adding their Bitmoji, one their friends’, them and a friends’ playing together, or any two of their friends. Phone cases, towels, and pillows are also available. These could help Snap show off its name and brand, reminding people to use the app since they can’t get the true Bitmoji anywhere else.
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