Personalized Photo Publications

This Service Turns Smartphone Pictures into a Monthly Magazine

'Recently' is a new service that turns your smartphone pictures into a monthly magazine. While it is easy to take high-quality photos with a smartphone, it is difficult to curate these images and figure out a unique way of displaying them. This services does the work for you by curating your most recent photos and then sending them to you in the form of a glossy magazine.

The combination app and subscription service works by automatically curating 100 of your most recent smartphone pictures. You can let the service choose the images for you or you can go in an use the editing tools to make your own selections. Once you have uploaded your images, Recently will print the images in the form of a high-quality monthly magazine. The magazines are branded with the date of each issue to make it easy to organize the photo books.

The service provides a unique way to ensure that you have a tangible record of your most recent memories.

Personalized Photo Publications
This trend offers disruptive innovation opportunities for digital printing companies to provide personalized photo printing services.
Mobile Photo Curation
This trend presents disruptive innovation opportunities for app developers to create mobile apps that automatically curate and organize smartphone photos.
Printed Photo Subscriptions
This trend opens up disruptive innovation opportunities for subscription-based businesses to offer personalized printed photo magazines as a recurring service.

Sectors Adopting This

Digital Printing
The digital printing industry can capitalize on this trend by offering personalized photo printing services to customers.
App Development
The app development industry can leverage this trend by creating mobile apps that automatically curate and organize smartphone photos for users.
Subscription Services
The subscription services industry can explore this trend by offering personalized printed photo magazines as a recurring service to customers.
SCORE
3.7 out of 10
GENDER
50% Men50% Women
MARKETTop markets: North America, Europe, Asia
GENERATION
  • Gen Alpha
  • Gen Z (primary audience)
  • Millennial (primary audience)
  • Gen X (primary audience)
POPULARITY
Popularity 47%
Activity 55%
Freshness 8%

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