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Snap CEO Evan Spiegel said facilitating coronavirus blockages would increase engagement on his platform as users increasingly coordinate socialization as the company publishes better first-quarter results.

Sales of Snap, the parent of the Snapchat messaging app, rose 66 percent year-on-year to $ 770 million in the first quarter of last year, beating analysts ’expectations of $ 742 million, it said Thursday. Active users per day reached 280m, an increase of 22 percent.

“We are optimistic about the engagement trends we are seeing as the world opens up,” Spiegel said, adding that when the U.S. eased restrictions in February, the company saw “turning points” as users posted a short video. ”Stories” about their lives and Snap Map using the function to share where they are and activities.

“Recently, we saw an increase in the rate of Snapchat’s new friendships and two-way communications in late March as people began to socialize in larger groups,” he added.

The good results were the result of delays in privacy changes to Apple’s iOS 14 operating system, which will ban app developers from collecting data about iPhone users without their explicit permission in an update to a new bomb that will hurt the online ad industry.

The changes were expected to take effect towards the end of last year, but will arrive next week. Snap, which examined the wrong ways to avoid the rules according to the Financial Times report, said it was “not yet clear” what the long-term impact of the changes would be.

Although the company led revenue growth of between 80% and 85% in the second quarter of the year, the pandemic came from lower bases after the pandemic tightened Snap’s advertising customers in the second quarter of 2020.

After a tumultuous 2019, Snap has been successful with investments in upgrading its products and paying for its offerings to advertisers. In March, Spiegel said at a conference that previous companies predicted multiple years of revenue growth of at least 50 percent as a fundamental basis for the growth in the number of users or commitments.