of visual trends do? I help head up the team that makes predictions about what our customers are going to be searching for tomorrow. We study the visual landscape at...

viewer directly inside the experience. Virtuality reflects an explosion of interest in immersive imagery. Searches for “virtual reality” went up 321% in one year, while the search term “360” saw...

...almost of what art directors do—the subjective classification of things. We’re able to find photos that are visually alluring or visually memorable, or exciting, that have momentum in them, or...

...that the technology just isn’t sophisticated enough yet. Still, with today’s consumers embracing images over text, retailers have started introducing visual search tools. Macy’s positions its Image Search app, developed...

...from co-working cruises to yoga retreats – designed to reinvigorate and boost productivity. –Forever 21 has released an AI-powered visual search tool that lets customers shop online according to their...

...search for audio clips by referring to their actual content rather than meta-data, with results that aren’t just text-to-speech readings, but real clips from radio and podcasts spoken by real...

While researching our new 10 Trends for 2013 report, we talked to Roger Dooley, author of Brainfluence, the popular Neuromarketing blog and the Brainy Marketing blog at Forbes.com. We discussed...

...of a wider project by Blippar to become a “visual browser,” a visual Google of sorts that will allow consumers to better understand the world around them through their devices....

...for foodies, Pinterest announced a “dish recognition feature” using visual search technology in May. Users can take photos of food and find relevant recipes related to what they’ve captured. The...

Each Wednesday for the next few months, we will post an edited Q&A with one of the many experts and influencers we interviewed while researching our just-released 10 Trends for...