Despite overwhelming evidence, marketers are slow to fully embrace visual tech. A report we publish last week shows that CMO’s and their teams are poorly equipped to take advantage of the public insatiable thirst for visual content. Not all is bleak, however. Figures show that as a huge majority, marketers plan to substantiallyContinue Reading
You wouldn’t think about it this way, but Wall Street tends to be highly emotional and jittery when it comes to stock photo licensing. When companies with voracious growths – anything above 30%- show any signs of slowing down, it starts running for cover. The reason is very simple: theContinue Reading
New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed by University of Exeter researchers. The details are published today in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The software, which converts digital photos to animal vision, can be used to analyse colours and patterns andContinue Reading
In the silence of mid-summer, the Copyright hub launched its first practical initiative. For those who do not know, which is the vast majority of everyone reading this, the Copyright Hub is the brainchild of the UK effort to help drag copyright legislation into theContinue Reading
Native smartphone camera apps – those provided by Apple and hardware manufacturers on their respective phones – now do much more than enable basic camera functions. They include features such as HDR, burst, dual focus/exposure points, exposure compensation and panoramic image capture that were once the exclusive domain, and theContinue Reading
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but marketers have not turned a strategic lens on optimizing the return from their visual media content investments. While 65 percent of senior marketing executives believe visual assets are core to how their brand story is communicated, a scant 27 percent haveContinue Reading
Responding to an increasing demand for reliable insights on the stock photography market, the three top stock photography industry experts, Lee Torrens, Paul Melcher and Amos Struck, have officially launched Stock Photo Insight (http://stockphotoinsight.com), a consulting service providing calls with all three experts simultaneously. In addition, Stock Photo Insight isContinue Reading
The world of photo apps is a crowded place. With thousands of different photo-taking/editing/sharing apps to choose from and more being launched every day, it is a surprise when any of them break off from the pack and gather a strong following. 3 years old PicsArt is part of thatContinue Reading
EyeEm is the photo app photographers’ love. Not only it offers the expected gamut of editing tools we have now become accustomed to, it delivers it in an environment particularly friendly to image creators. Unlike older sister Instagram, EyeEm seeks to help its members generate revenue with their creations, making themContinue Reading
We built cities around transportation, rivers, cars, train but little did we think about the human aspect. With 3.5 billion people living in urban areas today and expected to double by 2050, it is becoming imperative that we change. Startup Placemeter offers the ability to quantify and analyze what weContinue Reading