Webinar | Wonderlust: tapping into the boundless beauty of nature
Re-watch our next visual trends webinar, to hear from Director of Visual Trends, Pam Grossman, as she discusses the latest trend of Wonderlust
Connecting to the crowd: tapping into the power of sport with visual storytelling
Five ways that brands can use sports imagery to engage with their customers
User Generated Video Content – how brands can tap in to the YouTube generation
User Generated Content (UGC) is everywhere, with millions of videos being created and shared by your users every day. Find out why it’s become a powerful tool for brand marketing and how you can take advantage to connect with your audience across a new medium.
Social photography | The key visual trends
There is a core set of visual ideas and conventions around technology and its no surprise that our best sellers from the Flickr collection reflect these trends – connection and urbanity
Expert Insider: Adrian Cheok
Adrian Cheok on the future of the digital image in a mixed reality world, hyper-connectivity, those Google glasses everyone is talking about, and about a shift in communications from a world of text messages, to a future of taste messages
Social Media: Marketing to the Selfie Generation
Self-taken-photos have evolved into a language of self-expression that both explains and defines the Millennial consumer.
‘I’ve never felt closer to the world’
We asked our Flickr contributors to send us images around the idea of ‘connection’. This is how they responded
Gap-toothed authenticity
In this second part of our introduction to our Curve report on Technology, we dig deep into the drivers behind the “authenticity” trend and look at some Smartphone Social Sharing of “Street Art” via Samsung
Expert Insider: Richard Banks
A trend we are tracking throughout this Curve report is the nostalgia/retro obsession that has featured in all markets and segments. So when it came to exploring how new technology is shaping our current obsession with the past, and how it is changing how we relate to images and image-making, there was one person we were needed to talk to – Richard Banks
Photography: the killer app
How social photography is changing the meaning of photography in general, and how brands have utilised it for impactful, engaging campaigns. We reveal deep visual trends underlying sales from Flickr, and interviews with leading researchers offering insight into the fast-changing impact of photography on our day-to-day lives.
London 2012: The Smartphone Olympics?
Our photographers captured the 2012 Olympics using all the latest technology. But couldn’t resist the urge to get their smartphones out as well
Show, don’t tell: the rise of visual social media
Visual social media is the breakout marketing trend for 2012. Watch a recording of our event from 14 November to hear from a panel of experts on how brands are using visual content to power social engagement
How is social photography changing the way brands tell stories
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – thanks to social media, people are conspicuously sharing stories and imagery about themselves every day. But what does that mean for brands and campaigns?
Is your brand ready for its ‘selfie’?
The “selfie”, Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, became the international symbol of carefree, irreverent fun when President Obama snapped one with the Danish Prime Minister last year.
Wish you were here: the charisma of ‘everyday’
From playing dress-up to reconstructing family history photography is the pre-eminent medium for sharing, storytelling and self-expression. And advertisers are tapping into this creative addiction.