Industry notes for the week of March 22

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Professional photography tidbits

Edge Imaging outlines digital transformation steps

Edge Imaging CEO James Aziz posted on LinkedIn an overview of how the Toronto-based school portrait lab adapted to new workflows and processes as part of COVID-19 and concerns about cybersecurity. The company has published a white paper for principals, administrators, and school board members about mitigating cybersecurity risks. To download the whitepaper directly, click here. Aziz was a guest on the Dead Pixels Society podcast in Oct., 2020, where he covered similar topics.

Bad wedding videographers slapped with $110K fines

Australia’s Imaging Insider reports an NSW Central Coast wedding videographer couple has been ordered to pay $110,000 in compensation, costs, and fines for failing to deliver 17 clients their wedding videos and photos, despite being paid a total of $32,730. Katie and Andrew Klerck, trading as Switch Multimedia, failed to deliver the finished product to their clients, with some couples not receiving any video edits while others were handed extremely poor quality video snippets.

App news and updates

Photo Finale releases new “photographing flowers” video

Photo Finale has added a new video about flower photography tips and tricks from photographer Erin Manning for its DIY Studio dealer subscribers. Subscribers had the video automatically added to their feed.

GoPro replaces namesake app with Quik app

GoPro launched a total refresh of its mobile app and renamed it Quik. Existing GoPro app users will see their app update upon install. For GoPro camera users, Quik features all of the capabilities of the previous GoPro app, plus new features. Existing users’ photos and videos will transfer from the old GoPro app to the new Quik app upon install and any cloud-based footage will remain accessible.

JPEGMini Pro 3.1 adds usability features

Image-size optimization software JPEGMini Pro was updated to version 3.1, adding drag-and-drop session initiation and other UI enhancements.

Financial News

Kodak reports $1 billion in full-year 2020 revenue

Eastman Kodak Co. reported financial results for the full year 2020, including consolidated revenues of $1 billion and an increase in cash in the second half of the year.

United Imaging Group shows annual increase, despite pandemic

European buying group United Imaging Group announced, despite the global pandemic, 2020 sales increased 6% to €404.6 million euros. At €251.8 million, warehouse revenue is €29.7 million higher than the previous year’s figure (+13.4%).

People on the Move

Rob Comeau named Director of Business Development at Advertek Inc.

Advertek Inc., a leader in personalized printing, announced photo industry veteran Rob Comeau has joined the company as Director of Business Development. Comeau will use his decades of photo industry experience to build customer relationships in the fast-growing North American photo personalization market.

Herff Jones hires Ken Moore as Chief Technology Officer

Herff Jones, the achievement division of Varsity Brands and the provider of graduation and educational products and services, appointed Ken Moore as Chief Technology Officer.

Dave Leskusky named president of PRINTING United Alliance

PRINTING United Alliance announced Dave Leskusky was appointed president of PRINTING United Alliance. Leskusky has successfully overseen operations at NAPCO Media, which melded with the Alliance in 2019.

Open Positions

Allcop/Foto Online Service

Longtime Southern Germany photofinisher allcop is seeking a managing director/CEO, digital products, for its Foto Online Service GmbH software business. Download the PDF here.

EyeQ

EyeQ is looking for a sales director, as well as some Moscow-based programmers.

GotPhoto

GotPhoto is looking for a marketing representative – Partnership & Events

Imaging Solutions AG

Imaging Solutions AG is looking for a field service technician.

Mediaclip

Mediaclip is looking for a Product Manager/Product Owner and for developers.

Nations Photo Lab

Nations Photo Lab is looking for a Product+Business Development Manager for Artsy Couture.

Photo Managers

The Photo Managers, the leading photo organizing community, is seeking a director of marketing

PrintBox

Printbox is looking for a sales representative.

Shootproof

Shootproof is looking for an associate UX researcher.

Shutterfly

Shutterfly has numerous vacancies.

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