The main page of our homepage column with quick and relevant facts, stats, research on the Visual Tech space.

Marketing:

Marketing use of visual content

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Marketing:

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Visual search:

visual search

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Facebook :

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Visual search:

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Google photo:Google photo

Image metadata:

Image metadata

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Visual search :

retail visual search

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Visual Marketing:

sourcing visuals

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Computer vision:

Computer vision

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Instagram vs Snap

snapchat vs instagram stories

E-commerce:

72% of shoppers always or regularly search for photos and videos

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Facial recognition:

Facial recognition

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Smartphones:
number of photos taken worldwide

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Search:

Google image search

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WhatsApp:

Whatsapp 5.5 billion images shared every day

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Influencers:

instagram-influencer-research-1

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Google Photos:

google photos 500 million users

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Visuals:

remenber visuals

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UGC:

Olapic UGC

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Facial Recognition:

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Purchasing via visuals:

Training set is valid to process a successful custom categorizer.

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Visual Content Marketing:

Visual Content marketing

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VR:

VR and brands

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Instagram:

Instagram

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Camera phones

stored

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Millenials and Visual Platforms:

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Photos, by devices:

photo-by-device

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Brands and Video:

Instagram VS. Snapchat

Visual Content:

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Photos:

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Photos:

Number of photos taken

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Mobile :

In one hour:

one hour of mobile activity

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Visual Content:

Snapchat:

Videos:

Facebook video

Photo Sharing :

Daily photo shared on social media

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Brands :
Snapchat Instagram

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Image Recognition:

Image-Recognition

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Snapchat:

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Instagram vs. Snapchat

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iOS vs Android :

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Photo Printing:

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Instagram:

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Instagram vs Snapchat:

Increase in visual information:

Increase in visual information

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Snapchat :

snapchat

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Social media growth:

Content Marketing:

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Storage:

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Snapchat :

Snapchat video viewed a day

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Facebook:

¾ of all brand content posted on Facebook includes photos
¾ of all brand content posted on Facebook includes photos

Photos:

trillion

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Instagram:

Instagram users over time

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Instagram:

Photos lead engagements over videos on Instagram

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Content Marketing:

visual content marketing

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Visual Communication:

Visual Communication

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Number of photos shared in 1 minute:

Number of photos shared in 1 minute

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Visual Content:

Marketing effects of visual content

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Colors :

color is primary reason for choice

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Visual Web:

Projected spending on visual web

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Photo Sharing:

Photo sharing by age group

Teens :

Most important socoal networks for teens

VR landscape:

The Virtual reality landscape

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Instagram :

brands using Instagram

Visuals :

visuals

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Video :

video marketing

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Pinterest :

Pinterest shopping and mobile

Visual content marketing:

Marketers will invest more in visuals
Marketers will invest more in visuals. Source CMO council

Instagram :

Instagram Mobile Ad Revenues to Reach $2.81 Billion Worldwide in 2017 - See more at: http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Instagram-Mobile-Ad-Revenues-Reach-281-Billion-Worldwide-2017/1012774#sthash.LzG97Uf8.dpuf

Pinterest:

Pinterest Shopping

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Photo editing:

Photo editing men women

Visual Content Marketing:

Viewing videos:

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Visual Content Marketing:

Visual content marketing

Instagram :

time

Traffic:

Video traffic 80%

Video :

Video shopping

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Cameraphones:

80% of photos will be taken by mobile phones

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Millenniums and Smartphone cameras:

Millenniums and camera smartphone

Photo saving :

Type of files saved or shared by cloud users and use of paid for services. EU, 2014_
Type of files saved or shared by cloud users and use of paid for services. EU, 2014.

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Computer vision

visual tech acquisition

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Content marketing

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Visual Content marketing:

Marketers spend time on visual marketing

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Photos:

1 trillion photos will be taken in 2015

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Instagram:

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Image :

It’s All About the Images

Infographic by MDG Advertising

Teens :

Girls Dominate Visually-Oriented Social Media Platforms
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Visual content:

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Camera Type :

number of images taken per user/ per camera type

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DAM:

report on digital asset management (DAM) software

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Pinterest :

Pinterest vs instagram-2015-

Instagram:

UGC influence on purchase

Commerce:

social commerce by platform

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Smartphone :

Smartphone User main usage.

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Brain:

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Facebook:

For luxury brands on Facebook, photos are a double edge sword.
For luxury brands on Facebook, photos are a double edge sword.

Photo Management:

reasons for not sorting through photos

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iOS app downloads:

When compared to the gender ratio of overall app downloads, mobile gamers tended to be slightly more male in composition, whereas the Social Networking and Photo & Video categories skewed towards female audiences.
When compared to the gender ratio of overall app downloads, mobile gamers tended to be slightly more male in composition, whereas the Social Networking and Photo & Video categories skewed towards female audiences.

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Instagram:

10% of Instagram comments for top brands come after 19 days.
10% of Instagram comments for top brands come after 19 days.

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Typical photo:tech user behavior :

Photo Tech users

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Brands :

Visual brand power

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Sharing :

"90% of photo takers agree : revisiting and sharing the story behind a photo with someone else makes it more meaningful."

Photo Documentation :

Photo Documentation

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Cloud :

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Instagram:

Imgur :

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Information:

90% of info is visual

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Capture device:

Infographic: Digital Cameras Are Getting Ditched For Smartphones | Statista

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Photo sharing :

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Social :

Social

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Pinterest:

More men are using Pinterest in the U.S. than read Sports Illustrated and GQ combined
More men are using Pinterest in the U.S. than read Sports Illustrated and GQ combined

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Photos:

92% of U.S. Time Spent with Photos Occurs on Mobile

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Capture Device:

Installed Base of Digital Cameras 2014

Brain :

in-image ads :

In image ads

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Hotel Booking:

The number of times that participants fixated on images suggests that pictures may play a significant role in the online hotel choice process.
The number of times that participants fixated on images suggests that pictures may play a significant role in the online hotel choice process.

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Teens:

Survey Says Teenagers Prefer Instagram Over Facebook
Survey Says Teenagers Prefer Instagram Over Facebook

Storage:

76 percent of the respondents that store more than 25 photos do so on multiple devices. Meanwhile, 52 percent of them store photos on multiple online services (such as photo, social media or syncing sites).
76 percent of the respondents that store more than 25 photos do so on multiple devices. Meanwhile, 52 percent of them store photos on multiple online services (such as photo, social media or syncing sites).

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Visuals:

92.6% of people say the visual dimension is the #1 influencing factor affecting their purchase decision (over taste, smell, etc.)
92.6% of people say the visual dimension is the #1 influencing factor affecting their purchase decision (over taste, smell, etc.)

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Instagram:

Instagram is particularly popular with teens from wealthy households.

Instagram:

Over 65% of the Instagram community is located outside of the United States.

Flickr :

Statistic: Number of unique U.S. visitors to Flickr from January 2012 to July 2014 (in millions) | Statista
Source : Statista

Snapchat:

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Snapchat:

Usage of Snapchat drops dramatically with age
Usage of Snapchat drops dramatically with age

Instagram :

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Pinterest:

Pinerly

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Tumblr :

Every day, users post about 130 million photos on Tumblr.

Snapchat :

Snapchat is now the third most popular social app among millennials, according to a recent report by comScore, which finds that Snapchat has 32.9% penetration on these young users’ mobile phones, trailing only Instagram (43.1%) and Facebook (75.6%).
Snapchat is now the third most popular social app among millennials, according to a recent report by comScore, which finds that Snapchat has 32.9% penetration on these young users’ mobile phones, trailing only Instagram (43.1%) and Facebook (75.6%).

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All:

What makes an image sharable
What makes an image sharable

Photo Sharing :

Numbers of images uploaded daily

Google + :

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Smartphones represent more than 50% of all picture taking devices sold.
Smartphones represent more than 50% of all picture taking devices sold.

Visuals :

your brain on visuals
your brain on visuals

Aviary :

Types of images edited via Aviary
Types of images edited via Aviary

Family photos:

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Visual Web :

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Facebook:

87 percent of a Facebook page’s interactions happen on photo posts.
87 percent of a Facebook page’s interactions happen on photo posts.

Instagram :

instagram

Teens:

This year’s high school graduating class is part of a coveted demographic for tech companies. In a survey of 7,000 Class of 2014 Niche users, students ranked 50 popular apps and websites based on frequency of usage.
Most used apps/website by teens graduating high school in 2014.

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All :

9 out of 10 teenagers use a cell phone to take pictures

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Internet :

Web and app users are sharing and uploading 1.8 billion photos a day.
Web and app users are sharing and uploading 1.8 billion photos a day.

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Image Recognition:

The image recognition market will be worth $25.65 billion by 2019, up from $9.65 billion today.

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Photo sharing:

Statistic: Most popular photo sharing sites as of November 2013, sorted by share of daily uploads | Statista
Find more statistics at Statista

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Brands:

The Top 25 Most Visual Brands
The Top 25 Most Visual Brands
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CC:

The number of estimated licensed Creative Commons works is half a billion

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All:

880 billion images will be taken in 2014

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Pinterest :

Pinterest by gender
92% of Pins are posted by women

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UGC :

Photo Commerce

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Facebook:

75% of Brands' Facebook Posts Are Photos
75% of Brands’ Facebook Posts Are Photos

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Pinterest :

Pinterest logo 750 million boards and 30 billion images pinned

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UGC :

  • 62% of U.S. consumers trust photos taken by customers more than they trust photos taken by brands or retailers

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UGC :

Millennials consider user generated content 35% more memorable and 50% more trustworthy than other media types.

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e-commerce :

Images with a white background drive 10 to 15 percent greater sales conversion than those without

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Instagram :

30% of surveyed teens chose Instagram as their most important social network ( higher than Twitter or Facebook)

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Shooting :

The average person now takes a photo every 3.5 hours of their waking lives

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Facebook :

The average user has 217 photos uploaded to the site.

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Instagram :

of 1.1 million Instagram photos analyzed, those with faces were 38% more likely to get Likes and 32% more likely to get comments.

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Twitter :

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Selfies:

Overall, 26% of Americans have shared a “selfie” on a photo-sharing or social networking site.

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Instagram :

only 3-5% of images on Instagram are selfies.

Instagram Selfies

Memory :

Retention rate for visual information can reach 65% versus 10% for text-based information

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Snapchat :

Snapchat-Study-1

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WhatsApp:

500 million photos sent daily

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Internet :

54% of all internet users post
original photos and videos online

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Snapchat :

Snapchat

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Twitter :

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Flickr:

92 million users share around 1 million photos every day

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Internet :

500m

500 Million photos shared a day

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Stock Photo companies :

77% are micro businesses with less than 10 employees

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Pinterest is :

80% of pins are repins

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Instagram :

Images with blue as a dominant color receive 24% more Likes than those with high concentrations of red and oranges.