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The lowdown on Lapse, the London-based startup that's created an innovative and collaborative approach to the world of photo-sharing. Almost everyone, including our grandparents, has a smartphone these days. And if you have a smartphone, you have a camera better than any we ever took on holiday with us as children, full of filters that only a professional photo editor had access to in the 90s a...
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Emeka Ikechi, Director of Vanity Studios shares his insights on the importance of getting your social media imagery right and a few of the key things you should consider... Social media is important for many new businesses. Whether B2C or B2B, brands find new customers and engage in important conversations primarily via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. If you are failing to grow your ...
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PhotoTech scaleup BOOM reveals it has secured a major investment to assist with its plans to rewrite the future of commercial photography Fantastic news from phototech scaleup BOOM which has just announced that it has closed a $7m A round led by United Ventures to support the firm’s next stage of growth. Founded in 2018, BOOM is on a mission to develop the world’s most efficient di...
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Photography is a field with near-universal appeal. It’s a creative and fulfilling pastime, but it can also be a reliable source of income. Making the transition from amateur snapper to a professional photographer, however, is not as straightforward as you may suppose. Let’s run through a few of the requirements. Experience and Qualifications Firstly, you'll be, you'll need to be able...
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The "Netflix for images' startup JumpStory, continues to innovate thanks to its $1 million investment Innovation in visual imagery for marketers with the news that JumpStory, an AI-based digital content platform, has released its AI-powered search and success prediction tools in 40 new languages, having secured $1million investment. This in turn is bringing the platform ever closer to its go...
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Oodls, the Scottish startup that's "licensing great content from talented Instagrammers across the globe for businesses big and small." Anyone who creates content on websites or blogs, or perhaps even posts a lot on social media, will understand how vital good stock photographs are. A good picture breaks up the wall of text, draws the viewer’s eye, enhances the words with evocative imagery....
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Shuttout - The community-driven marketplace startup that's adding social value to photographs... The market for still imagery is estimated to become worth $4 billion by 2020, at 7% growth every year. Everyone with a smartphone is a photographer these days. Our food, our dog, our daily commute becomes art, frozen on our screens and mused over like it’s a Degas. By ourselves. And then we ge...
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Borrowfox - the peer-to-peer startup that's creating the UK's largest film and camera equipment rental marketplace. Whether you’re a professional photographer who just can’t justify buying that extra piece of kit at the moment or a freelance film-maker who only needs a piece of equipment for a one off project, we reckon our latest startup of the week will be right up your street. Bor...
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Popsa - the innovative app that's using AI to disrupt the photobook market.As printed photographs have given way to digital photos, so the photo album has given way to the photobook. We haven’t lost the desire to have a physical collection of our photographs for posterity, but it has become a little less easy. That little digital-photo printer is handy, but where did you leave the power cabl...
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CLiKD, a London-based dating app which launched in 2017, has launched a new photography competition inviting people to submit photographs which showcase what Love means to them in London.  Aptly named ‘Love in London’, the photography competition is aimed at celebrating unity and hope in the aftermath of a turbulent year for the capital. The aim being to ...
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