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Shutterfly launches “Shutterfly Collective” featuring digital Icons, Spoonflower artists Marketing News 

Shutterfly launches “Shutterfly Collective” featuring digital Icons, Spoonflower artists

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Shutterfly launched its first limited-edition capsule collection, The Shutterfly Collective, to celebrate the addition of 4,000 new artist-sourced designs available in home decor and gift items on the Shutterfly platform. The inaugural Collective is designed and inspired by “digital icons” paired with four Spoonflower Independent Artists, who “helped bring each of their personalities and four product categories to life, and demonstrates... Read More
Shutterstock reports second-quarter 2022 financial results Earnings reports News 

Shutterstock reports second-quarter 2022 financial results

GaryPageau
Shutterstock, Inc. announced second-quarter revenue for the ended June 30, 2022, increased 9% to $206.9 million (on a constant currency basis, revenue increased 13%). Income from operations dropped 24% to $25.4 million and net income decreased 34% to $19.4 million.  “With the acquisitions of Pond5 and Splash News and the release of our Creative Flow suite of workflow applications and... Read More
Berlin Photo Week 2022 to feature three days of more than 40 workshops Events News 

Berlin Photo Week 2022 to feature three days of more than 40 workshops

GaryPageau
Berlin Photo Week, Sept. 2-4, 2022, is offering a uniquely wide range of photo workshops and photo walks. From beginners to professionals, from the basics to masterclasses, together with leading international stars of the photography scene the German capital will over three days be a creative meeting place of photo enthusiasts. “In putting together this programme we wanted to steer... Read More
Profoto shows improved results, impacts of component shortages Earnings reports News 

Profoto shows improved results, impacts of component shortages

GaryPageau
Swedish lighting company Profoto Holding AB reports net sales for the second quarter ending June 2022i, totaled SEK 187 million, compared to SEK 172 million last year, an increase of 8.6 percent. But organic growth, adjusted for currency effects, was -12.7 percent. For the first six months of the year, Profoto registered net sales totaled SEK 383 million, compared to... Read More
Photo-Me announces six-month results Earnings reports News 

Photo-Me announces six-month results

GaryPageau
Photo-Me International plc, the instant-service equipment group, announces its results for the six months ended 30 April 2022. Revenue was up 21.9% to £115.3 million (H1 2021: £94.6 million), resulting mostly from the continued easing of Covid-19-related restrictions across the group’s key operating markets and the subsequent positive impact of increased demand for passports and other official documentation, the company... Read More
Innovative Foto’s BlabaBooth sponsors race driver Akinori Ogata News 

Innovative Foto’s BlabaBooth sponsors race driver Akinori Ogata

GaryPageau
Innovative Foto’s BlabaBooth sponsored Japanese professional stock car racing driver Akinori Ogata, for the Crayon 200 in the NASCAR 2022 Xfinity Race Series in New Hampshire July 16, 2022. The unique partnership is the first for photo booth manufacturer, Innovative Foto and its BlabaBooth line of photo booths. Ogata finished 25th, completing 167 laps before dropping due to engine failure.... Read More
Trends in wedding and portrait photography with Zenfolio News 

Trends in wedding and portrait photography with Zenfolio

GaryPageau
Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Pamela Vachon and Keith Barraclough about Zenfolio’s recent industry survey of photographers, the changes wrought by COVID, and how technology is changing how photographers work. Pamela Vachon is vice president, marketing operations, at Zenfolio. Keith Barraclough is CTO, EVP analytics, at Zenfolio, Zenfolio Inc. offers advanced business solutions enabling photographers to easily show, share and sell their images and videos. For... Read More
Fujifilm announces sale of Greenwood, S.C., campus News 

Fujifilm announces sale of Greenwood, S.C., campus

GaryPageau
FUJIFILM Holdings America Corp. announced its FUJIFILM Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc. subsidiary has entered into an agreement to sell its Greenwood, S.C., site to an affiliate of Phoenix Investors, a national commercial real estate firm based in Milwaukee, Wisc. with large-scale industrial real estate holdings across the United States. Fujifilm will maintain a workforce of over 300 employees at the site,... Read More
NRF: June retail sales increased despite rising inflation Market research News 

NRF: June retail sales increased despite rising inflation

GaryPageau
Retail sales increased in June even as inflation climbed higher and drove up prices across the board, said the National Retail Federation  (NRF). “June retail sales data shows that consumers remain on solid footing despite rising prices and an active Fed raising interest rates to combat it,” said Matthew Shay, president and CEO, NRF. “Inflation has consumers modifying their spending... Read More
Kodak invests in company developing EV “Super Cell” battery News 

Kodak invests in company developing EV “Super Cell” battery

GaryPageau
Eastman Kodak Co. announced it has taken a minority stake in Wildcat Discovery Technologies (Wildcat), a technology company using proprietary high-throughput methods to rapidly develop new battery materials. Wildcat is developing a breakthrough EV “super cell” designed to provide a greater than 90 percent improvement in energy density over today’s best batteries, which could further accelerate the widespread adoption of... Read More
CreativeLive acquires Wildist.co to expand photography course portfolio Acquisitions News 

CreativeLive acquires Wildist.co to expand photography course portfolio

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Online learning platform CreativeLive, a Fiverr company, announced its acquisition of the content and website of outdoor and adventure photography site Wildist.co, with contributors including Chris Burkard, Alex Strohl, Finn Beales, and Benjamin Hardman. With this acquisition, Wildist.co will be folded into CreativeLive, where workshops and content will reach a broader audience, including the millions of photographers who already use... Read More
Lightricks lays off 80 employees News 

Lightricks lays off 80 employees

GaryPageau
Israel-based Lightricks is laying off 80 employees, 70 of them in Israel, according to a report in CList. The layoffs amount to around 12% of the company’s workforce, which numbers 680 employees based out of offices in Israel, United States, China and the United Kingdom. Lightricks makes numerous imaging and creativity apps, including Facetune2, Facetune Video, Filtertune, Videoleap, Motionleap, Photoleap, Artleap,... Read More
Fujifilm Australia opens the nation’s first Fujifilm House of Photography News 

Fujifilm Australia opens the nation’s first Fujifilm House of Photography

GaryPageau
Fujifilm Australia has opened the country’s first Fujifilm House of Photography concept store in Sydney’s CBD, according to Inside Retail. The “House of Photography” concept store is Fuji’s second, following the opening of the first U.K. one in 2019. The company says the store “will act as a hub for photography enthusiasts and photographers alike to convene for events and exclusive... Read More
Ricoh announces RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition News 

Ricoh announces RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition

GaryPageau
Ricoh Imaging Americas Corp. announced the RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition. Previously announced as a part of the RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition Special Limited Kit, the camera can now be purchased separately for the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $1,049.95. The RICOH GR IIIx Urban Edition camera body is accented by a navy-blue ring around the lens barrel. The... Read More