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On October 26, I participated in a fireside chat about “Real Photography” at the DMLA’s annual conference. 1 Ostensibly about “what new technologies are doing for photography”, it became a place and a time for everyone – not just the panelists, but the entire room – to talk about anythingContinue Reading

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Unbeknownst to social media fanatics, they are being watched. With billions of photos shared daily on a variety of social media, a giant opportunity has opened up for brands to stealthily  track how consumers interact with their products or services.  Advances in content recognition has made logo detection within vastContinue Reading

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It’s been a devastating couple of weeks for on-line advertising: First Apple threw oil on the ad blocking  fire by releasing iOS9 with advertising blocking features. Then, it was just revealed that over half ( 55.5%) of all online advertising spending is shared between Facebook, Google, Twitter and Linkedin. AndContinue Reading

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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

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While the numbers are familiar – 1.8 billion images uploaded daily, over a trillion in a year – what they hide is not. A recent study by Kodak Alaris ( unfortunately only limited to the UK) shows that the vast majority of photos taken are never processed and worse, endContinue Reading

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While there has never been so many photos taken and shared online, the world of professional photo licensing is not striving. In fact, most legacy companies have seen their revenue freeze or decline in the last decade, with rare exceptions.  While at first contradictory, a closer analysis reveals that part ofContinue Reading

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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

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The fundamental goal of visual tech should be reducing friction on how we interact with the world. Success will be measured on how easily we can pass from one function to the other with minimum active input. A few years ago, while working on the development of a Saas, the everlastingContinue Reading