Apps Snoop Dogg launches Snoopify photo-sharing For Android And Also iOS

The latest musician riding the photo-sharing bandwagon is Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion), with the launch of AN iOS and automaton app known as Snoopify Sticker Camera.

Snoop worked with merchandiser higher Playground, developer 99centbrains and promoting firm Cashmere Agency on the free app, that gets fans to "take photos of your friends or surroundings and switch them into snoop-themed masterpieces" by adding virtual stickers.

Snoopify is not making an attempt to contend with existing social networks: it shares pictures to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, with fans inspired to feature the hashtag #snoopifyapp once posting their footage, to unfold the word. Some stickers area unit free, whereas others area unit sold-out in 69p packs via in-app purchase.

It's Snoop's second app of 2013, following Snoop Lion Reincarnated: Track Notes App on iPad, that offered clips and background info on his latest album. he is conjointly golf stroke his name to a "rhythm-fighting" game known as means of the Dogg, that is launching on iOS, Android, Xbox three60 and PlayStation 3.

Snoopify conjointly 99centbrains' second artist-focused photo-sharing app of the year, following its unleash in Apr of Major Lazer's Lazergram, that took an analogous approach to Snoop's app.

Instagram presently has 100m monthly active users, whereas Twitter and Facebook area unit each used heavily for sharing photos. It's no surprise, then, to ascertain stars like Snoop Dogg exploring standalone apps as the simplest way to encourage fans to emblazon their representational process on their shots before sharing.

In fact, Snoop has created a habit of being AN early adoptive parent of recent digital services and apps that may facilitate him hook up with a lot of fans and create cash, albeit those partners have gone on to possess mixed success.

He was on Twitter in 2008, Instagram in early 2011 and Google+ in early 2012, as an example, and conjointly became one in every of the primary hip-hop artists in console game rock group in early 2009.

StreetCred and feature-phone game Snoop Dogg Boxin' in 2007, JibJab in 2008; branded cavity resonator app Snoop Dogg's iFizzle, a "VoiceSkin" for TomTom GPS satnav devices and a channel on livestreaming service Ustream in 2009, area unit a lot of samples of Snoop's advisors exploring new digital-media opportunities.

Then came a presence on mobile community MobileStage, a commerce $200k of digital merchandise for virtual worlds and reproof a truck to market Zynga's Mafia Wars in 2010; his own YouTube show for Samsung and hosting an area on video service Chill and a "Snoop Pack" of video-editing effects for the Viddy app in 2011.

In 2012, meanwhile, Snoop affected a take care of social mobile games firm Grab Games, and bagged his own stage in console game Tekken Tag Tournament. And currently apps in 2013.

There's arguably more cash to be created in 2013 by stars like Snoop Dogg from other forms of apps than photo-sharing, though.

Witness Trey Songz, whose Trey Songz – The Angel Network app is reportedly generating $54k a month from sales of virtual credits, that fans then pay on causation non-public messages, customising their profiles and bidding to "get detected by Trey" by promoting those profiles on the app's "VIP Board".

That app could be a partnership between Songz and mobile firm handsewn Mobile, that conjointly runs the popular qualitative analysis app Flirtomatic – that uses a similar model of virtual credits – and launched a now-discontinued Take American state Out coquetry app for ITV as a by-product from its Take American state Out show.

Meanwhile, if Snoop's individuals wish to sell digital stickers inside apps, they could wish to possess a conversation to the publishers of electronic messaging apps like KakaoTalk and Line, that area unit massively widespread in Asia, keen to expand to the West, and embody in-app stores commerce virtual stickers.