Some of our latest articles on visual tech:

• Instagram Is No Longer a Photo-Sharing App

  
  

  When is a photo-sharing app not a photo-sharing app? When it’s 2021, and the app is Instagram. This news comes directly from the top: Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram. In a video posted to his Instagram and Twitter accounts, Mosseri recently said the company is looking to lean into entertainment and

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• The inevitable convergence of social media, commerce, and visual content.

  
  

  You walk through the supermarket aisle until you face various choices for the product you wish to eat. In the case of cereals, it can be 20 or more different options. You reach out and pick one, which you feel is the right decision based on a well-educated process. In

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• Hype ? The adoption of AI technologies in our photo & video ecosystem.

  
  

  Unlike the Hype Cycle, the areas of disillusionment haven’t stopped developers from making tremendous progress creating and implementing real-life AI-based imaging solutions that enable users to more easily and more creatively capture, enhance, manage, share or print their visual content.

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• The licensable web

  
  

  The first iteration of the internet, the one we are still somewhat experiencing, was built on the fundamental belief that content should be free. In its early days, it was to be this fantastic social experiment where anyone and everyone would be able to share anything, anytime, with anyone. It

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• Photo & video app news – Q1 update

  
  

  I’ve been very busy wrapping up our DIY video apps market study, so this week no feature article but covering some interesting industry news instead: MyHeritage. Animating these old photos. We all know the value of our irreplaceable family pictures. But what if they could be animated and it appears that

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• Shutterstock, Turbo Squid and an ocean of content

  
  

  Shutterstock’s acquisition of 3D marketplace Turbo Squid is significant for a few reasons, some of which might not be obvious. The first and well-understood purchase trigger is that the microstock company is under pressure to expand its offering horizontally. There is a known ceiling to the paid licensed still images

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• From Photo Frame to Media Empire?

  
  

  Remember Framen? This German startup’s CEO, Dimitri Gärtner, did a Show & Tell presentation at Visual 1st two years ago, showing his company’s digital frame photo viewing solutions. To my surprise, I learned a few days before Christmas that a company no less than Axel Springer had just acquired the

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• Our predictions for visual tech in 2021

  
  

  2020 has made screens our primary interface to the world. While pre-pandemic, we were mostly physically interacting with the world, using all of our six senses, the past year has been essentially just visual.  Except for our immediate family, it is via a digital representation, text, photos, or video that

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• Fixing our trust in content

  
  

  According to a recent study, over 63% of Americans say they often come across fake images online. Whether those images are truly faked or perceived as such, the damage is done. We are rapidly losing trust in what we see, our evolutionary number source of information. If this trend continues,

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• 10 questions for a founder : wrnch.ai

  
  

  A little less than a week before he takes the stage at the 2020 edition of the Visual 1st Summit, we sat down with Paul Kruszewski, founder, and CEO of wrnch.ai for a sneak preview of his talk on human-centric AI-enabled cameras.   – A little about you, what is your

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• The fragmentation of photojournalism

  
  

  In photojournalism today, it is no longer one-size photo fits all but multiple images fits all. Photographers have to learn how to conjugate their images. … Read More →

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• What’s really behind Getty Image’s acquisition of Unsplash

  
  

  So close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: The gentle freedom-loving all sharing company is selling to the greedy capitalistic money-making titan. Or, in other words, Getty Images is acquiring Unsplash. The two unlikely partners will officially be one come the end of April, sending ripples through the stock … Read More →

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