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
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
Making money from photo apps is still more art than science, according to a new study by Suite 48 Analytics. Even when their user demographics and use cases are similar, photo app developers differ greatly in how they monetize their apps, reflecting differences in legacy business models, financial resources, orContinue Reading
For those who couldn’t make it, LDV has just posted videos of the panels held at its latest Vision Summit, in New York this past month of May. Since the summit lasted 2 days this year, with over 80 international expert speakers, 40 sessions, and 2 competitions, there is aContinue Reading
A new report from L2 Insight has just been released, covering Instagram’s recent efforts into the advertising space. The Facebook-owned company has made slow and careful steps over the last few years, carefully managing its user base while increasing its offering to advertisers. The result is paying off: In 2014,Continue Reading
What will we do with all the data we accumulate from photos? On a daily basis, internet juggernauts like Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Microsoft use highly sophisticated deep learning engines to better understand the content of billions of images uploaded, liked and shared. For now, it is to better serve adverting but what elseContinue Reading
An insightful study about teens and Instagram was recently published by the Pennsylvania State University. In it, Jin Yea Jang, Kyungsik Han, Patrick C. Shih, and Dongwon Lee of the College of Information Sciences and Technology division, reveal some interesting facts on how teenagers interact with the photo sharing platform. UsingContinue Reading
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 (Continue Reading
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,Continue Reading