Paul Melcher is a highly influential and visionary leader in visual tech, with 20+ years of experience in licensing, tech innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is the Managing Director of MelcherSystem and has held executive roles at Corbis, Stipple, and more. Melcher received a Digital Media Licensing Association Award and is a board member of Plus Coalition, Clippn, and Anthology, and has been named among the "100 most influential individuals in American photography"
:O By announcing the separation of Google photo from the Google plus social media platform, the giant search company has clearly announced its intention to intensify the battle for domination of the online photo space. And for a good reason: Photos are the number one activity on smart phones, second onContinue Reading
On our continuous journey to discover new ideas, concepts and content around photo and technology, we recently fell* on a very well written blog post that described photo sharing in 3 major historical waves ( the bank accounts, the social networks and the meaningful experiences). Intrigued and curious, we reachedContinue Reading
While the majority of photo tech companies are trying to figure out how to monetize UGC, Pierre Pankotay, founder and ceo of Artdeo, is bringing the art world online. Traditionally held in galleries and in selective auction houses, the purchasing of fine art photography prints has been a rather closedContinue Reading
Flickr’s recent announcement that it will offer licensing tools to its user base should come as no surprise to the readers to Kaptur. We predicted such a move a while back. At a time when more and more photo tech companies are putting their content for licensing, from 500px to EyeEmContinue Reading
Whether it is more noble to have photos disappear immediately after being seen or to have them come back and haunt us after a certain amount of time. It all really started the day Snowden, out of Hong Kong, released files he had grabbed from the NSA confirming what weContinue Reading
It ripped the sky open like a lighting in a summer night but we hardly heard the thunder. Yet. A few articles, from the Wall Street Journal to Techcrunch replicating the press release, but that is about it. Which is a little disturbing because a series A investment of $61Continue Reading
There is no end in how many photos we produce. In fact, all the projections show that we have only just started and that the 880 billion photos we will take in 2014 are nothing compare to what is to come. But who organises all these images? Enter Euvision Technologies , fromContinue Reading
We receive a lot of notifications of new photo apps here as well as we scout the internet for news of start-ups with a photographic touch to them. Every time, after testing it, we ask the same question: is it good enough to make people leave Instagram and use thisContinue Reading
The buzz in the ad world these days is all about content marketing. Why ? With content marketing costs 62% less than traditional marketing and generating about 3 times as many leads, 78% of CMO’s believe it is the future of marketing. (Source:DemandMetric).People spend more online ( ~ 6 hours aContinue Reading
The next big frontier for anyone involved with photography online is content curation. The value of a company dealing with photography is not in its ability to attract a large amount of content – that is the easy part- but rather in its ability to create value to the contentContinue Reading