Industry notes for the week of Nov. 7 People on the Move Updates 

Industry notes for the week of Nov. 7

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Retail news Digital Imaging Reporter’s 2020 State of the Industry Digital Imaging Reporter has published its annual state of the industry compendium of opinions and prognostications from manufacturers, retailers and distributors, with a special focus on how to cope with COVID-19. NRF chief economist says strong retail sales growth ‘points to the resiliency of consumers’ Retail sales have largely recovered... Read More
Shutterfly breaks “Let Good Fly” holiday campaign Marketing News 

Shutterfly breaks “Let Good Fly” holiday campaign

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Leading consumer photo personalization site Shutterfly premiered its “Let Good Fly” 2020 holiday ad campaign this week. Rather than avoid the realities of a less-than-desirable pandemic year, the light-hearted spot “Let the good fly” confronts it head on. Created by long-time ad agency Argonaut, the spot features various characters showing how they coped with 2020, including a bread-baking mom, a... Read More
GotPhoto releases QuickComposite and holiday sales content News 

GotPhoto releases QuickComposite and holiday sales content

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GotPhoto Inc., the leading workflow platform for volume school photographers, has released holiday sales content and a new composite software to help photographers generate group photos. GotPhoto has prepared guides, webinars, email templates, and much more to help the photographer create extra holiday revenue. The resources build on GotPhoto’s existing strategies begun during the COVID-19 crisis. The company led the... Read More
The Dead Pixels Society Podcast: Three things retailers must do, with John Kelly from Zenreach Podcasts 

The Dead Pixels Society Podcast: Three things retailers must do, with John Kelly from Zenreach

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Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with John Kelly, CEO of Zenreach, a walk-through marketing company. Kelly describes the three activities a brick-and-mortar retailer must not stop doing in the age of COVID-19. Zenreach is an American technology company based in San Francisco. It produces marketing software used by brick-and-mortar businesses allowing customers to access public Wi-Fi. These details are used to create... Read More
GoPro doubles third-quarter revenue Earnings reports 

GoPro doubles third-quarter revenue

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GoPro reports third-quarter 2020 revenue was $281 million, a 109% sequential improvement from $134 million, driven by the HERO9 and a boost in GoPro subscriptions. Net income dropped to $3 million, however, from $31 million last year.  “Thanks to consistent momentum throughout the quarter and the strong launch of HERO9 Black coupled with our GoPro subscription service, in Q3 GoPro achieved... Read More
Panasonic debuts LUMIX S 85mm F1.8 lens New Products 

Panasonic debuts LUMIX S 85mm F1.8 lens

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Panasonic introduced a large-aperture medium-telephoto fixed-focal-length L-Mount lens, the LUMIX S 85mm F1.8 (S-S85). The lens is the first of four L-Mount lenses the company said it would release. The lens is comprised of 9 elements in 8 groups. The LUMIX S 85mm F1.8 also excels in video recording performance with a mechanism that suppresses focus breathing. The 355g lens... Read More
DJI debuts DJI Mini 2 with 4K New Products 

DJI debuts DJI Mini 2 with 4K

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DJI launched the DJI Mini 2, a high-performance camera drone successor to the original Mavic Mini. The DJI Mini 2 features the same folding design but adds upgrades to improve performance, including OcuSync 2.0 transmission technology for ensuring stable, long-distance, and reliable connection between the remote controller and the drone. DJI Mini 2 has a maximum transmission range of 10 km, which... Read More
Motif launches Motif 2.0 for iOS News Updates 

Motif launches Motif 2.0 for iOS

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Motif, the personalized photo project app from RR Donnelly, launch the redesigned iOS app, Motif 2.0, featuring major upgrades for Motif users on an iPhone and iPad. Most notably, Motif 2.0 for iOS features a redesigned project editing experience created to make the process of designing photo books and calendars even more intuitive, saving users time as the holiday gifting... Read More
Fuji Xerox to change name to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. in April 2021 News 

Fuji Xerox to change name to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. in April 2021

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Fuji Xerox announced its Asia Pacific operations will change to the Fujifilm brand with the changing of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. corporate name to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. on April 2021. This change is brought forth based on the company’s decision to end the Technology Agreement with Xerox Corp. on the agreement’s expiration date, March 31, 2021. The Technology Agreement provides for... Read More
APTech opens registration for Nov. 12 “The Learning Experience” virtual conference Events 

APTech opens registration for Nov. 12 “The Learning Experience” virtual conference

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  The Association for PRINT Technologies (APTech) announced registration is now open for the “The Learning Experience” virtual conference from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 12. The conference is designed to empower business leaders in the print industry to harness the power of ground-breaking technology and tools to grow and ignite their business. The event is free to members... Read More
NRF chief economist says strong retail sales growth ‘points to the resiliency of consumers’ Marketing 

NRF chief economist says strong retail sales growth ‘points to the resiliency of consumers’

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Retail sales have largely recovered from the pandemic heading into the holiday season but the growing number of coronavirus cases remains a threat and additional federal stimulus could help keep the economy on track, said Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist, National Retail Federation. “Strong growth in retail sales during the last few months points to the resiliency of consumers even in... Read More