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2024 Companies mentions in "And a few more things..." industry news
Adobe. OpenAI Sora, Google Imagen 2 and Runway, here we come!
Adobe. Removing distractions
Adobe. Tone-death redux.
Adobe. GenAI video.
Adobe. Stock & photo editing unite
Adobe Firefly. Structure reference feature
Adobe Firefly. Enterprises, here we come!
Adobe Firefly, Getty Images, Shutterstock, Bria.ai. Not all AI rips off creators
Advertek & Custom Colour Imaging. Consolidation in Canadian printing land
AgfaPhoto Print. Brand rebirth
Albelli & Photobox Group. New brand, new CEO.
Alice Camera. Best of 2 worlds?
Apple. Joining the generative AI party
Apple. New video camera app
Apple & Pixelmator. Watch out Adobe, there are now more and more bigger kids in town
Artifcts. Going Pro.
Artisse AI. Raising $
Augie Studio. The Canva for AI video creation.
Beamr & Nvidia. Video optimization partnership.
BeReal & Voodoo. Acquisition
Boris Elgadsen. Need some great wall décor art?
BRIA. Raising $s
C+A Global. Photobooth for the rest of us.
Canva. Watch out Adobe: Canva is on your heels
Canva & Leonardo.Ai. Acquisition
Canva & Serif. Hello Adobe, here we come! – but not how most expect it
Captions. AI video: the hot next thing?
Cara. Fed up with Instagram? Artists unite
Catch+Release. License your own favorite TikTok videos
CEWE. Well, the world didn't end when CEWE appointed a female CEO 1.5 years ago
CIPA. Camera shipments crawling up
Claid. Unified API
Claid. Brushing-triggered editing.
Click & Lens Protocol. Partnership
Cober & WCD. Acquisition
Colossyan. GenAI video app developer attracts investment $s
Colossyan. A lesson or two in pivoting
Databricks & Shutterstock. AI training from stock photos #2.
Deep-Live-Cam. In the category of wow, wow – but fun and a bit worrisome.
DxO. RAW editing
EyeEm & Freepik. In hot water.
EyeQ. Background removal
Fal.ai. Raising $.
FastEditor. Beyond photos: logos.
Felix Schoeller. New sustainable printing papers.
Fighting Deepfakes. Call for legislation
Flux. In the category of wow, wow – but very worrisome
FotoNation. A co-founder hat-trick targeting imaging on edge devices.
Freepik & Magnific. Acquisition
Cloudprinter. Devastated Ukrainian book printer needs equipment
Fujifilm Instax. Going wide
Gary Pageau. Printing United
Gary Pageau. Visual 1st recap & video
Getty. Keep on pushin’ AI image generation
Getty & Nvidia. AI-generated stock photos for the rest of us.
Glass. Ad-free photosharing beyond individual photos.
Glass Imaging. Yes, there’s (much more) room for smartphone cameras improvements.
Google. GenAI for ecommerce
Google. AI image generation take 2: business users, here we come!
Google. Pixel 9 and GenAI.
Google Gemini. Generating AI images is a hornet’s nest
Google I/O. AI lovefest
Google Labs. New AI image generator.
Google Lumiere. Text-to-video generator
Google Photos. AI infused video
Gooten. New order management platform
GotPhoto & SpotMyPhoto. Partnering
Grok. Flux going unhinged
Halide. Stripping away that iPhone camera AI processing.
HelloPrint. Sustainability for branded merchandise
Hipstamatic. Event photosharing with a nostalgic twist
HP & Apple. What do they have in common? Security first! Or was it $s?
HP & Canva. Visual communication & printing
Hypno. Visual 1st Special Recognition award
ImageQuix & Skylab. Acquisition.
IMG.LY. Plug-in platform
IMG.LY. AI for design and workflow automation
IMG.LY. Create your own favorite video app.
Insta360. Bring on these iPhone videographers
Insta360 X4. GoPro, here we come! Again.
International Photographic Council (IPC). 2024 Professional Photographer Achievement Awards
IXXI. Photo print product subscriptions
Kin.art. Preventing AI models.
Kodak Alaris. From one PE firm to another.
Lapse. Raising $. How to stand out in the crowd?
Leica. Leica-fying your iPhone camera
Lightricks. Going GenAI video
Lightricks. Pivoting to B2B video
Mediaclip & Adobe Commerce. Enhanced connectivity
MediaViZ AI. Neé IMAIGE.
Meta. Generating AI images is a hornet’s nest, part 2.
Meta. AI image creation for advertisers
Meta. OpenAI, here we come
Meta & Arm. AI on-device
Meta, Alphabet and Snap. Yah, the big boys can make $$$ from advertising again!
Meta. Bye-bye “Made with AI” tag – hello “AI info.”
Meta. Imagine…
Microsoft. Doodling in Paint
Microsoft. Canva, here we come
Midjourney. A yet more photorealistic v.6 is on its way
Moment. Hello camcorder 2.0
Mood Camera. Taking great pictures has gotten too easy.
Mylio. Mixing & matching cloud & local storage.
Neurapix. Personalized AI cropping.
Nightshade. Poisoning AI models.
Nodle. Visual 1st Best Technology award
Nodle & Hayden AI. Enforceable traffic violation imagery
Open AI. AI video generation that knocks your socks off
OpenAI. Siri, Google Assistant and Alexa: here we come – but multimodal!
OpenAI. Deepfake detection of its own GenAI images
OpenAI. Responsibly generating AI porn
Overlai. Random poisoning tech.
Paul Melcher. Rethinking photography in the age of AI
PHOTOPIA Hamburg. RIP
Photoroom. 50% unicorn
PicCollage. Visual 1st Best of Show award
Picsart & Getty. AI training from stock photos #1.
Pika. Raising $ for video app.
PiktID. Improved face anonymizing
Pixii. Rangefinder going full-frame
Pixolo & photobook.ai. Partnering
Polycam. 3D smartphone scanning app attracts investment $s.
Pomvom. SPAC acquisition.
Printbox. AI & Printing
Printess. AI-infused print product creation
Printify & Printiful. Latvia unites!
Procreate. Keeping away that generative AI.
Profoto. Ecommerce photography automation
Profoto. Turn & Burn v. 2
Retouch4Me. Batch retouching
Sensaria. Unified API
Shine. Event photosharing
Skylum. Pro portrait retouching
Skylum. iPhone port.
Skylum. Luminar Neo upgrades
Smartphoto & TopFanZ. Going gifts.
Snap. AI Watermarks: yes, it's a GenAI image
Snapchat. AI-generated video
Sony. C2PA coming to your camera
Soona & Zerolens. Acquisition
Stable Diffusion. V. 3 AI image generation
Synthesia. AI video localization going Workflow.
Taopix. New release
The Customization Group. Customized photo ecommerce platform
The Dead Pixels Society. Print Production Networks webinar.
The English Premier League. iPhones joining the party.
TikTok. Labeling GenAI content
Tinder. How do I look at my best?
TIPA. 2024 TIPA World Awards
TIPA. Survey invite
Topaz Labs. Upscaled upscaling
Tracer. Visual 1st Best Business Potential award
Twelve Labs. Raising $ for AI video tech
Typeface & Treat & Narrato. Acquisitions
Uniclip & ImageQuix. Partnership
vAIsual & Canva. PeopleMaker.
VSCO. LinkedIn for photographers
VSCO. Back to its roots pays off
YouTube. AI infused video.
Zerocam. The “anti-AI” camera app going Android
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