While we are all aware photos have a massively dominating position on the web, we are also painfully aware of how little is done to tap into this massive source of data. What people photograph and share reveal a lot about what they can and will consume. Few startups offer solutions,Continue Reading
Photos and videos are exploding online. Every day, new innovative content is capturing our attention. Marketers are taking advantage of the trend and investing in visual content. The majority of senior marketers say visual content is crucial to their business, and its importance will continue to rise in the future.Continue Reading
As an industry, we’re still grappling with the fact that today people primarily take photos with their smartphone, store them in many places (phone, cloud, tablet and PC) and expect the ability to share them in interesting ways with friends, family, or the world at large. We’re still searching for theContinue Reading
Under the heading of “Pushing the photo and video boundaries,”Eric Cheng, Facebook’s Head of Immersive Media, will discuss his endeavors in VR and other transformative imaging technologies – including drone and light field photography – in a special fireside chat session at Mobile Photo Connect. The world’s premier conference forContinue Reading
Mobile Photo Connect, the leading forum where entrepreneurs, investors and senior executives gather to discuss the key technology and business issues driving the surge in mobile imaging and visual communication, announces its program and speaker lineup for its October 25 conference. The event’s theme, “Shaping the world of smart mobile imaging,” will beContinue Reading
Advertising, and in particular sponsorship, used to be a simple process. A brand would buy the rights to put their logo on a team and would enjoy the returns of being associated with a sport franchise, mostly via TV air time. However, with more than a billion photos uploaded aContinue Reading
The world of sports has always been dominated by exceptional achievements. It is indelibly carved into a precise moment in time when the accumulation of a lifetime of efforts culminates into a victorious epiphany. A combination of a defeat of physical limitation as well as the complete and absolute annihilation of anyContinue Reading
Mobile Photo Connect, the premier conference for the mobile photo ecosystem conference, today announces five additional sponsors of its October 25, 2016 conference. New Gold sponsor is Portugal-based Storyo, makers of the highly acclaimed automatic multimedia story telling app of the same name. Storyo will complement the conference’s previously announced Gold sponsors: HP, Fujifilm, Walgreens, and di support. Mobile Photo Connect’sContinue Reading
Mobile app success stories with humble beginnings in a basement or garage are becoming far and few between. In an industry where, nowadays, most successes are either spin-off and add-on apps published by the market giants, celebrity-backed ventures, or heavily funded concepts driven by a fear-of-missing-out investment strategy, it isContinue Reading
Snapchat is moving from sharing moments to exchanging memories. Via a new feature released yesterday, the ephemeral photo company now gives its users the possibility to save snaps for later exchange and enjoyment, breaking its own foundation. With that move, it shoots back at its biggest threat, the Facebook/instagram/WhatsApp conglomerate inContinue Reading