Category Archives: flickr

it’s Adobe Stock and it’s live

Adobe, advertising, Brands, commercial stock, content, flickr, getty, license, Microstock, Royalty free, Shutterstock, UGC June 16, 2015 Paul Melcher 1 Comment

Will convenience be the powerful feature to make Adobe’s $800 million gamble succeed in the stock photo market? Launched amidst a flurry of Creative Cloud updates for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere, Adobe Stock is a fully integrated stock photo offering within the company’s flagship product. Created with the content of recently acquired Fotolia, it boasts, at launch, 40 million images, putting it right in the path of mighty competitors Getty Images and Shutterstock. However, it has a strong advantage: it is there where you need…

The second generation photo storage : Google Photos

Artificial Intelligence, big data, content, filter, flickr, google, mobile, phablet, research, Social Media, tablet May 28, 2015 Paul Melcher 3 Comments

That’s it. It’s official. Google photos is now free from G+ and starting a life of its own. For those who subscribe to our weekly newsletter, you might have noticed that we called what would be the key differentiator: free unlimited storage. With so many of the other features ( with variations) available via competitors, it was the only true unique play Google could make. And while a major draw for any mobile user, it is not the only attractive feature. Let’s review. Not really…

Mobile Photo Connect announces all-star speaker lineup for third annual conference

Adobe, computer vision, content, flickr, marketing, Marketplace, mobile, Mobile Photo Connect, Social Media, tablet May 25, 2015 Paul Melcher Leave a comment

Suite 48 Analytics, organizers of the annual Mobile Photo Connect conference, today announced that this year’s conference will be held September 29 at a new and larger venue, the Golden Gate Club in San Francisco’s Presidio Park. Mobile Photo Connect brings together entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives active in the global mobile photo and video ecosystem. This year the conference will take a deep dive into the driving forces behind today’s unprecedented surge in mobile imaging and visual communication, featuring panel discussions on opportunities to:…

LDV Vision Summit, Day 1, Overview

Artificial Intelligence, big data, computational imaging, computer vision, content, e-commerce, flickr, Funding, google, imaging, investment, LDV Summit, mobile, PhotoTech May 21, 2015 Paul Melcher 3 Comments

Another LDV Vision Summit just ended yesterday and with it, the conclusion of 2 full days of discussions about visual tech and its impact on our world. While it has become a cliché to point out the huge amount of photos/videos taken, posted and shared daily, what is much less understood is the multiple ramifications into our lives. This summit took a deep dive into the current and upcoming state of visual tech and offered a glimpse onto potential answers. There was too much said…

Image content recognition: A Stillbirth ?

Artificial Intelligence, big data, computer vision, content, flickr, keyword, research, Search, technology May 14, 2015 Paul Melcher 9 Comments

Content recognition in images has made great thrives over the last few years and shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, as more graduate students pour out of prestigious schools across the world, the more the field is experiencing healthy competition. To add fuel, major companies like Yahoo, Google, Apple have thrown multi million acquisition dollars at pre revenue startups, greatly activating VC’s potential to fund new ones. However, at the same time as the scope of research increases, a couple of hurdles might…

Photo cloud services: watch out – Flickr is on a roll

Artificial Intelligence, computer vision, content, flickr, Interface, mobile, PhotoTech, Search, Social Media May 12, 2015 Hans Hartman 2 Comments

It took a while and a few false starts, but Flickr has not only caught up with the leading photo storage and syncing providers; they’ve actually just steamed ahead and left others in the dust – for now – with the release of ambitious new photo organizing and syncing features, as well as an overhauled user interface for its website, apps and desktop software. Flickr now fully syncs the user’s photos and videos across devices, auto-uploads them from smartphones, features a timeline browsing interface, automatically…

10 Questions to an Artificial Intelligence Architect: Flickr

Artificial Intelligence, big data, content, flickr, interview, LDV Summit, PhotoTech, research, Search, Social Media, technology May 6, 2015 Paul Melcher 7 Comments

Flickr started it all. At it’s core, the simple idea of a place where people can share they favorite photographs. A lot has been written about what it could have been and missed opportunities. With 93 million users sharing 1 million photos daily, rejuvenated by a photo enthusiastic leadership and infused with recent high-tech acquisitions, it is breathing a second life. While there is a lot to do to catch up to its mobile-generation rivals, it is actively shedding its static image to become one…

5 predictions for 2015

advertising, Brands, computer vision, content, e-commerce, Facebook, flickr, google, in-image, Instagram, marketing, mobile, PhotoTech, Pinterest, Search, Snapchat, Social Media, technology, Twitter, UGC December 31, 2014 Paul Melcher 6 Comments

With 2014 now behind us, it is time to look at the new year with innocent crisp new eyes, full of hope and wishful thinking. As tradition demands, let’s jump into the prediction bandwagon and look at what the Photo:Tech space will bring in 2015. 1) The majors will enter the image advertising space. Up to now, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft as well as Facebook, Twitter and Amazon have stayed on the sidelines of in-image advertising. Amazon did come out with a beta product that automatically…

Flickr and the unwritten rules

big data, content, flickr, Marketplace, PhotoTech, Shutterstock, Social Media, transaction, UGC November 25, 2014 Paul Melcher 5 Comments

There is an unwritten rule in the photo:tech space that says if you are going to monetize the content on an individual basis, you have to compensate the creators. No way around it. After all, it is the way multi hundreds of million dollars companies like Getty or Shutterstock operate as well as a multi billion industry called stock photography. Tech companies, those created by programmers, developers, or serial entrepreneurs do not like this idea. In a VC-funded economy, where capital comes at a premium…

Embedding Images: A Contextual Ad Delivery Model?

Brands, content, editorial, flickr, getty, marketing, PhotoTech, technology, transaction October 7, 2014 Robert Henson 3 Comments

Embeddable images through online publishers can be a tactic for extending the reach and brand of publishers, who are the direct recipients of its traffic-building and presence. As you allow sharing, your content network grows, as do link-backs and overall web-imprint of a publisher’s site and branding. More often than not, the image owner and publisher are not the same entities. What’s in it for the image owner? UGC aggregators that welcome the outbound embedding of images from their platform…