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Mobile Photo Perspectives: Photo storage 4.0 – it’s deduplication, stupid! Marketing Opinion 

Mobile Photo Perspectives: Photo storage 4.0 – it’s deduplication, stupid!

GaryPageau ,
In the first part of this two-installment piece, we reported on the following findings from our latest survey among 458 North American smartphone photographers: The median number of photos that consumers believe they take per month is remarkably similar to what it was 1.5 years ago – it is neither plummeting nor ballooning. Smartphone photography has matured.Even with ephemeral visual... Read More
“Shark Tank” judges harsh to printing app entrepreneurs, Flag Marketing Opinion 

“Shark Tank” judges harsh to printing app entrepreneurs, Flag

GaryPageau , , ,
Photo printing apps have has a mixed result on ABC’s “Shark Tank”, the show where entrepreneurs pitch well-known venture capitalists known as “sharks”. Over eight seasons, the “sharks” have seen dozens of pitches and made selective investments. In 2014, the app GrooveBook not only secured a $150,000 investment from Kevin O’Leary and Mark Cuban, the business was soon acquired for... Read More
Walgreens Showing Mobile Apps Aren’t Just for Millennials Marketing 

Walgreens Showing Mobile Apps Aren’t Just for Millennials

GaryPageau ,
June 27, 2017 01:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time DEERFIELD, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Walgreens mobile app, already one of the most popular retailer apps in the marketplace with tens of millions of users nationwide, has garnered a particularly robust following among older Americans — a demographic rarely associated with mobile app adoption. Walgreens data show more than 20 percent of its app... Read More
Retail Sales Remain Flat in May, according to National Retail Federation Marketing Press releases 

Retail Sales Remain Flat in May, according to National Retail Federation

GaryPageau ,
WASHINGTON – Retail sales in May were essentially unchanged on a seasonally adjusted basis after an upwardly revised gain of 0.6 percent, according to calculations released today by the National Retail Federation. In May, sales were 5.3 percent above the year-ago level on an unadjusted basis and increased four percent on a 3-month moving average year-over-year. The numbers exclude automobiles, gasoline... Read More
Photo scanning opportunities across many sectors Marketing Opinion 

Photo scanning opportunities across many sectors

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Everyone has them: Boxes and boxes of old family photos. These scattered memories may not be in any chronological order and the photo subjects may be distant and forgotten relatives, but these are still family photos. As Baby Boomers have aged, many inherited their parents photo collections that start at the turn of the 20th century and move on up... Read More
A look at the kiosk trends of 2013 Marketing News 

A look at the kiosk trends of 2013

GaryPageau , ,
Our quotes in the Kiosks go SoLoMo: A look at the trends of 2013: “Gary Pageau, principal at InfoCircle and blogger for Kiosk Marketplace, said that retailers with photo kiosks have also benefited from the success of mobile with the use of geo-fencing. Retailers struggling to justify a fleet of kiosks, with the attendant updates, upgrades and maintenance, may find... Read More
Exclusive Kodak Alaris interview at Kiosk Marketplace Marketing News 

Exclusive Kodak Alaris interview at Kiosk Marketplace

GaryPageau , , ,
From our post at KioskMarketplace.com: Earlier this month, the Eastman Kodak Co. completed the sale of its personalized imaging and document imaging businesses to the U.K. Kodak Pension Plan — a move ensuring the Kodak brand continues on with kiosks and consumer film. The new $1.3 billion company, Kodak Alaris, is staffed by experienced Kodak executives who know the business: Dolores Kruchten for... Read More
The next wave of photo kiosks go social Marketing 

The next wave of photo kiosks go social

GaryPageau , 1 Comment
Recently, we had the chance to talk with Alexander Lowe, CEO and founder of the new social photo kiosk maker, iSnap Social, which is featured in a blog post at KioskMarketplace. “First deployed in December of 2010, the company recently announced the 500,000th image shared via its kiosks, resulting in 100 million online impressions. “Snap Social’s Photo Station allows users... Read More
Analysis of photo-filter apps show declining interest Marketing 

Analysis of photo-filter apps show declining interest

GaryPageau ,
Photo filter apps for smartphones and tablets: A vanishing category? Analysis of the U.S. Android, iPhone and iPad mobile app store rankings reveals filter and effects functionality is becoming a “checkbox” item in photo and video apps, rather than a distinct category, according to our friends at Suite 48 Analytics. A study just released by Suite 48 Analytics, the leading... Read More
RIP Kodak kiosks. Or maybe not? Marketing 

RIP Kodak kiosks. Or maybe not?

GaryPageau
With the announcement bankrupt Eastman Kodak Co. would look for a buyer for its Personalized Imaging Group, which includes film, paper and more than 100,000 kiosks worldwide. This is a stunning development in the long slow decline of the Rochester, N.Y., pioneer. Kodak without a consumer imaging component is hard to imagine.  Kodak wasn’t just another photo kiosk vendor. In... Read More
More dimensions in photo kiosks Marketing 

More dimensions in photo kiosks

GaryPageau ,
Photo kiosks are still big news in the retail world. Much thanks to our friends at KioskMarketplace.com  for publishing our latest blog entry, ”More dimensions in photo kiosks.” Here’s an excerpt: “Fujifilm has long been a technology leader in photo printing and processing. Recently, the company demoed a 3-D printer designed to bring dimensional printing to retail… These are not 3-D... Read More