onsdag 3 februari 2016

Image Recognition Invades Shopping As Curalate Raises $27.5M

Pinterest. Instagram. Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job.
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While marketing has typically been a top-down activity with brands trying to hard-sell their customers, the future is more bottom-up. Social media influencers are amassing enormous followings on social networks that stodgy brands can’t match. When they say they like or wear a product, huge sales ensue.
Curalate’s product is well poised to adapt to this massive shift. Brands can monitor which of their products are visually trending, use the insights to hire social media stars to create sponsored content for them, and then make that content shoppable on their own sites.
http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/02/profiting-from-pretty-pictures/


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