All social media is all about connecting users via content. First users establish a core network of relations and via content sharing ( mostly visuals) it maintains and grows that network. But what if content was put first and the network second (or not at all). That is exactly whatContinue Reading
With all the talks about video becoming the number media on the internet, little is said about how much more complex it is than text or photos. The elements of motion and sound, as well as timing , file size or even rendering, have made mass market adoption slow, outsideContinue Reading
With more and more photo and video apps listed in the iTunes and Google Play stores (around 80K at this point, more than double the number of two years ago), it’s no surprise that breaking into the app stores’ top rankings is getting harder and harder. But it’s not justContinue Reading
Photo app developers can monetize their apps in a variety of ways, such as by charging for the app, placing ads, selling photo print products, or offering extra features through in-app purchasing (IAP) options. For our recently published we took a deep-dive into the IAP patterns of the top-ranking appsContinue Reading
With an estimated 1.2 trillion photos taken in 2015, it is no wonder that most vanish in the deep grooves of some remote hard drive. And while it takes on a few fractions of a second to capture a photo, it seems to take an eternity ( along with herculeanContinue Reading
With the advent of digital, pro photographers have been taking more and more pictures. The downside is that they end up spending more and more time in post-production, having to search within thousands of images for the winning photographs. This is what Hungary based startup Picturesqe solves: using a mixContinue Reading
A recent study published by in-image advertising company GumGum and brand resource company Brand Innovators reveals that brand marketers are just about to pour millions of dollars into the existing channels of visual web while as well as experiment with new solutions. It is not a surprise since all the elementsContinue Reading
If any cloud photo storage provider knows how overwhelmed its customers are by the sheer quantity of their photos and the challenges they face to find the photos that matter, it’s Photobucket. No wonder that, in the last few years, they’ve allocated substantial resources to solve these problems for their users.Continue Reading
In our weekly newsletter, we looked at how Apple is ingeniously using Facebook to help launch and support their new visual format called Live Photos. However, there is a bigger picture appearing here, one that is surreptitiously putting the social media giant at the center of the online visual experience, whether familiarContinue Reading
Mobile Photo Connect, the leading annual forum for entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives driving the technologies and businesses behind the surge in mobile imaging and visual communication, today announced its full program along with a stellar speaker lineup for its upcoming September 29 conference. The event’s main theme, “Prospering inContinue Reading