Scary stats: Picture traffic to double on Halloween?
Sprint says Halloween is by far the most popular day for its Picture Mail, and there was a 64 percent increase in traffic from October 31 2007 to the same day in 2008, when millions of users sent photos.
This year, because Halloween falls on a Saturday, Sprint expects traffic to double with photos of trick-or-treaters, [...]
Specialty Color Services announces matching challenge to PMA members for fight against child malnutrition
In response to the recently-launched effort of Specialty Color Services, Santa Barbara, Calif., to battle childhood malnutrition along with Vitamin Angels, one PMA Newsline recipient came forward to offer matching funds. Now, Specialty Color Services is extending the challenge to others.
Through a unique partnership, Specialty Color Services will donate $1 from every roll of film [...]
Shutterfly reports higher third-quarter revenues and net loss
Shutterfly Inc., Redwood City, Calif., reported third-quarter revenues increased 13 percent to $40.5 million — the 13th consecutive month of growth — , the leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, today announced financial results for the three months ended September 30, 2009. The net loss increased to $6.3 million, compared to $2.83 [...]
Discover the secrets of photo book marketing in new McCurry PMA TV segment
Last week, PMA TV premiered its new, 6-part series, “PMA Presents McCurry on Marketing.” In Episode 1, PMA speaker and author Bill McCurry presented candid consumer videos and PMA Market Research to help viewers identify that characteristics that lead to more effective marketing messages.
This week, watch Episode 2, (click on “How To Videos”) in which [...]
Will DSLR follow 35mm SLR pattern and begin decline?
Ben Z. Gottesman at Gearlog has an interesting post about the future growth the DSLR market. His contention is the size and expandability of Micro Four-Thirds format cameras will grow in popularity, taking share of the traditional DSLR market. While the DSLR won’t disappear completely, he believes they will become marginalized as people move to [...]
Reality Digital shines spotlight on online video
Digital media solution provider Reality Digital Inc., San Francisco, Calif., announced Reality Digital Spotlight, a new white-label online video management and distribution platform. Spotlight extends digital media publishing to businesses and allows organizations to manage, publish, distribute and monetize their library of professional and user-generated video assets. Highly scalable and stable, Spotlight also offers a [...]
IDC expects slow recovery for digital frames market after being hit by global downturn in consumer spending
According to Business Wire, Framingham, Mass., digital photo frames have proven to be a popular option for enjoying the digital images captured by a growing number of camera-enabled devices. The market has been directly impacted by the global economic downturn, however, which has caused a sharp reduction in discretionary consumer spending. IDC now expects the market [...]
EFI reports third quarter sales decline
Electronics For Imaging Inc., Foster City, Calif., announced for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2009, the company reported revenues of $100.9 million, compared to third quarter 2008 revenue of $144.7 million.
GAAP net loss was $(12.2) million in the third quarter of 2009, compared to a GAAP net loss of $(3.6) million for the same [...]
New book for photographers available in three formats
Karen Sperling, who wrote the manuals for the first several versions of Corel Painter, is launching the printed version of her book, “Painting for Photographers.” The book, featuring art lessons, step-by-step software instructions and traditional painting-on-canvas techniques for turning photos into paintings is available in three formats. These include:
•A Deluxe Hardcover Edition; 10 percent of [...]
Livedrive announces storage, back-up and file sharing service for U.S. users
Livedrive, an online storage, back-up and file-sharing service located in the United Kingdom announced its official entry into the U.S. marketplace via a distribution agreement with Lifeboat Distribution, an international specialty software distributor for security, application lifecycle, and virtualization and network infrastructure products. Lifeboat will offer the product through its network of value added resellers [...]
