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TikTok is about to start integrating ads into search results -- meaning that users will get branded content alongside traditional videos when they search in the video app.

As AI image generators continue to rock visual industries such as photography and illustration, Nikon is taking a stand against AI and on behalf of humans, cameras, and "natural intelligence."

Meta is tightening restrictions on how advertisers on Facebook and Instagram target teenage users.

As Meta is struggling to revive its falling revenue in order to reverse its downward financial spiral, it is adding new ways for advertisers to clutter up your feeds. Specifically, the Explore feed and grids are about to start getting ads.

Despite plenty of opinions out there saying that stills photography is dying and video is taking over, one metric at least seems to disagree: ad revenue. According to reports, the world's largest photo sharing site (Instagram) out-earned the world's largest video sharing platform (YouTube) by a lot in 2019.

Remember those old lens advertisements you would see decades ago while flipping through magazines like National Geographic? Photographer Aaron Arizpe recently tried his hand at recreating the look and feel of those ads using his own lenses and editing skills.

Oops. A few days ago, we reported that Target had launched a new, Photoshop-free social media campaign for their new swimsuits. The company has been praised for the move, but some of their ambassadors might not be playing along. A couple of the photos show signs of being 'shopped.

By now, you're familiar with Apple's "Shot on iPhone" ads: giant billboards and posters showing off high quality photos taken with Apple's latest smartphone. But for their latest version of the campaign, Apple upped the ante, showing off the iPhone 7's low light chops with a series of nighttime images.

LG is poking fun at profile pictures in their latest ad campaign. Specifically, they're making fun at how people edit the same photo differently depending on which social network they're using that profile pic for.

Republican state senate candidates in Iowa have been releasing advertisements in recent weeks, introducing their lives, views, and plans. With all the photos and videos emerging at around the same time, someone noticed something peculiar: the candidates are all seen talking to the exact same group of kids in the same school hallway.

London's new mayor Sadiq Khan was only elected last month, but he lost no time fulfilling a big campaign promise. Now that he's in office, Kahn is officially banning all ads that "conform to an unrealistic body image" in the London transit network.

Remember Flag? Back in 2014, the then-nascent idea raised over $150K on Kickstarter to launch a 100% free, ad-supported photo printing service. Today, that dream became an honest-to-goodness smartphone app reality.

The Citizens Advertising Takeover Service (AKA C.A.T.S.) just launched a funny, ridiculous Kickstarter campaign that seeks to do something awesome: they want to replace every single ad in a London Tube station with pictures of cats.

Facebook ads are some of the best and cheapest sources for advertising a new wedding photography business.

When I first started wedding photography a few years ago, business was slow. I got all my inquires through Gumtree (an English version of Craiglist) and organic search traffic, and I only booked around 8 weddings in my first year. I still had a day job at this point, so could still get by.

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Canon is currently running a special promotion in which photographers purchasing gear through authorized dealers will receive a free 13 months of CarePAK priority service and accident insurance (which protects from accidents such as careless drops and spills).

To promote CarePAK coverage of its products, B&H recently published the video above that shows careless and unlucky photographers having their gear damaged and destroyed in all kinds of painful ways.

Canon's latest billboard ad campaign in New York City does more than promote the camera brand: they can actually help you shoot better photos. Each of the fixed and mobile truck billboards is updated in real time with useful photo tips you can use on the spot.

You've heard "don't drink and drive" and "don't use your phone while driving." Now there's a new warning, "don't like and drive," that warns against browsing Instagram photos while you're behind the wheel.

Ford recently shared a number of PSA photos on its official Instagram account with that message.

UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, recently launched an ad campaign in Chile that speaks out against cyberbullying with smartphone photos. Titled "One Shot," each of the three ads shows a group of teenage students pointing their mobile cameras at one of their peers, firing squad-style.

Advertisements on Instagram aren’t a new concept, but the folks at Facebook are working to open their image sharing platform to even more businesses around the globe. Beginning on September 30th, small businesses will be able to run advertisement campaigns on the network in more than 30 countries around the world.

"Makeup Transit Authority" is an ongoing portrait series by Brooklyn-based artist Lydia Cambron, who finds defaced advertisements in the New York City subway system and then recreates them in new photos.

Samsung has launched a clever new marketing campaign to promote its tiny NX Mini mirrorless camera. The ads imagine a few famous self-portrait paintings as a result of selfies captured with the company's camera.

In recent years there has been more pressure than ever to minimize -- or outright ban -- the Photoshopping of models in advertisements. But beyond the positive PR/respect that such a move might garner, it turns out there might actually be a financial benefit to saying no to Photoshop.

Update: We've received an official response from Flickr, which you can read at the bottom.

In the past, paying Flickr for an Ad-Free experience had a dual meaning: you wouldn't see ads, and neither would the users who looked at your photographs. That definition, it seems, has changed, as some disgruntled Pro users are reporting that every 4th or 5th photo on their streams is now a full-size ad when viewed from a free user's account.

In every facet of our lives, we’re bombarded by advertisements: online, while driving, on the radio, everywhere. So much so that they become more noise than anything else. So wouldn't you like to erase some of that noise and replace it with iconic photography? Well, soon you can.

For one month, starting in mid-October, No Ad, an augmented reality application will be overlaying pieces of art from the International Center of Photography over the commercial advertisements seen throughout the New York City subway system.

Update: Major changes have been made after learning a majority of the online coverage of this updated was incorrect.

Tumblr users post approximately 130 million photos every day. And starting this week, they will begin to sort through every single one of them for various brands and items, with the help of Ditto Labs.