Executive Briefing
Facebook’s Stories challenge, Everlane’s sneaker markup
Plus: Apple’s latest mega-hit, and some slow media.
By Dan Frommer on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 12:15 pm
Stories, the mobile-native visual publishing format, has given Facebook new life — and a big design challenge.
Launched by Snapchat in 2013 and adopted by Instagram in 2016, the Stories concept has grown to become one of the most interesting and important media formats of the internet era. Facebook has been especially enamored with Stories and has added it to all of its major apps. And people are using it.
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