Industry Notes for the week of Aug. 19

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Printing News

di support adds photo kiosks to EDEKA Stroetmann

European photo kiosk supplier di support announced it has placed self-serve photo kiosks in EDEKA Stroetmann locations in Münster, Coesburg and Steinfurt.

Pro Photography

Lifetouch receives “Champion for Public Education Recognition” by National School Board Association

Lifetouch announced it is a recipient of the National School Board Association’s Champion for Public Education designation for standing with public schools during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.

Google Images’ “Licensable” Badge Lets Photographers Sell Their Work

Rangefinder reports Google Images is currently testing a “licensable” badge as a way for photographers to sell their photos through search results (and hopefully decrease the chances of copyright infringement and photo theft).

App news and website updates

Instagram introduces Reels, a feature for making short videos

Instagram debuted Instagram Reels, an integrated feature to create short viral videos. Users can record and edit 15-second multi-clip videos with audio, effects, and new creative tools (very similar to the notorious TikTok.)

What’s trending among top-ranking photo and video apps?

Hans Hartman of Visual 1st provided an overview of the U.S. photo app market for Apple iOS and Google Android. Among the findings: few new players, customer ratings matter less, and prints apps not ranked very high.

Interesting items from around the web

The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

At the Business Insider podcast no. 55. “The Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement”, listen to the story of how two Polaroid Corp. employees discovered their company’s technology was being used by the South African government to help enforce apartheid. They protested and called for an international boycott of their employer until it withdrew from that country.

How a PR error might absolve Kodak of insider trading charges

Forbes senior contributor Chris Carosa writes how failing to put a press release under embargo may put get Eastman Kodak Co. out of insider trading allegations.

In Memoriam: Russell Kirsch

Russell Kirsch, the researcher who is considered a pioneer of digital imaging, has passed away earlier this week at the age of 91. He is the person behind the first scanned digital image and a creator of what we know today as a pixel. (Via DIYPhotography.net)