The Dead Pixels Society Podcast

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Phil Mazzilli , a Qualcomm executive representing the Mopria Alliance . Mazzilli talks about how the alliance standards enable printing from mobile devices to a wide variety of printers; most recently, the alliance announced its code is now part of Android 11. Mazzilli is the chair of the marketing group of the...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau   of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Ilze Folkmane . communications manager, Printful ,  about trends in consumer purchasing, how COVID-18 is affecting holiday shopping and product shipping and the keys to Printful's growth. Printful is an on-demand order-fulfillment and warehousing service that fulfills and ships products including clothing...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Rob Mauldin and Candy Parks of the MagicMakers Group about company culture, serving customers, how COVID is impacting businesses of all kinds, and ways to adapt. Rob Mauldin, a founding partner of the MagicMakers Group, focuses on Business Transformation and Experience Development. He was a member of the Disney...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with James Aziz , the new CEO of Edge Imaging , about what brought him to the company, the challenges faced by the school photography industry in the face of COVID-19, and the bright future. Aziz came to Edge Imaging effective March 16 from Transcontinental Printing and Packaging ’s Premedia services for Printing and...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Hans Hartman , president of Suite 48 Analytics and chair of Visual 1st .  Visual 1st is the premier global conference focused on promoting innovation and partnerships in the photo and video ecosystem, hosting executives and entrepreneurs at photo and video app development startups, mobile device vendors, carrier...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Stan Freimuth, chairman of Tracer Imaging , a leading provider of lenticular prints. Freimuth discusses his long industry career, spanning the photofinishing, graphic arts, and digital imaging, with companies including Pako Corp., Fuji Photo Film USA, Presstek and now Tracer Imaging . In particular, Freimuth tal...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Michael Warshall, chairman of Australia's EMOTION Photography . Featured last year in the Dead Pixels Society, EMOTION Photography is a digital-first operation built around the belief the customer – in this case, brides – would prefer to hire a photographer with immediate access to images, as well as the un...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Makaila Nichols, author and founder of the Blatantly Honest Foundation . At 18, Nichols wrote "Blatantly Honest," a best-selling book about her battle with body issues, bullying and sexual assault. From there, she started the Blatantly Honest Foundation to "change the stigma behind bullying and ot...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Aaron Day, Global Partnership Lead, with Canva . Day discusses the Canva business model, how the company is partnering with leading leaders like FedEx Office, and a sneak peek at the future of photo printing. Founded in 2012 by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht , and Cameron Adams , Canva is a graphic design softwa...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society talks with Rick Bellamy, CEO of RPI , about the company's recent acquisition of Blurb, the forces driving industry consolidation, the future of print and RPI's leadership role in COVID-19 response. RPI is a leading make-on-demand producer of private label personalized print services to businesses around the world...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with the co-founders of the new imaging industry marketing research company, Rise Above Research . Ed Lee, founder and director, has more than 20 years of experience covering the consumer and professional digital photography and imaging markets as an industry analyst and market researcher.  David Haueter has 20 years...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of The Dead Pixels Society talks with David Crandall , the executive director of the new industry association, the School Photographers of America . Crandall discusses how School Photographers of America will take the issues facing volume photographers direct to decision-makers, how it will pursue policies, and ways industry members can become more...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau welcomes back Brenda DiVincenzo , vice president of member success, at the IPI Member Network . Brenda shares the latest changes to the IPIC Conference . Now in a virtual format, the Aug. 23-26 "Breakthrough" conference will have many of the features of the IPI annual convention, but now through the Whova app. Attendees will be able to wat...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Erhardt Barth, co-founder of Excire Inc.,   about the company's new desktop-based image management tool, Excire Foto . Excire Foto is a powerful app designed for easy photo management and quick content-based browsing. As a local program, it doesn't require cloud computing and therefore has built-in pri...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with the team behind 10,000 Headshots , the largest, single-day photo initiative to provide 10,000 unemployed Americans nationwide with a complimentary, professional headshot to include with their resumes and post to job sites. The event will be Wednesday, July 22. 10,000 Headshots is the brainchild of Tony Taafe, wh...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks about retail in the age of COVID-19 and civil unrest with Bob Phibbs , the Retail Doctor. A frequent speaker at PRO events , Phibbs has worked with some of the top retail brands. He and his work have appeared on ABC, Fox, MSNBC , and PBS, and featured in articles in Entrepreneur, the New York Times, and the Wall Stre...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Tim Pontin , photographer, Printful , the fast-growing on-demand printing company.  Printful is an on-demand fulfillment company offering eCommerce warehousing and custom print and embroidery product drop-shipping services for online retailers. Established in 2013, Printful is one of the leading custom print-on-...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with Glen Meakem , CEO and founder, Forever.com , the permanent cloud photo storage and sharing company. A serial entrepreneur, Meakem founded FreeMarkets Inc. in 1995, which was later sold for $500 million. He also formerly headed up a venture capital fund and was a former radio host based in Pittsburgh, Pa. For the...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society   talks with Rick Voight , CEO of Vivid-Pix , about the value of restoring and reliving family memories. Vivid-Pix is the publisher of Vivid-Pix Land&Sea SCUBA and Vivid-Pix RESTORE image-enhancement software products. We are also joined by Gordon Clarke , strategic solution manager, of FamilySearch International , the...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks the David Vaskevitch, the founder of peer-to-peer media-organization tool provider Mylio about the challenges of selling subscriptions in the age of "free," competing against Adobe and Google, and partnering with Seagate. In this hour-long interview, Vaskevitch discusses his career at Microsoft, his love of...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau from the Dead Pixels Society talks with photographer Michael Rubin about the photography, printing and retail. Rubin operated, until recently, the Neomodern print store and gallery in downtown San Francisco. He is also the co-host of the " Everyday Photography, Every Day ," podcast.  In this episode, Rubin discusses why he doesn't thi...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Benedikt Greifenhofer , co-founder and CEO, GotPhoto , talks with Gary Pageau about the challenges faced by school photo companies in the age of COVID-19. Digitization was already on its way to changing the industry; how can GotPhoto help firms survive and thrive? GotPhoto is an award-winning workflow solution automating repetitive online sales and marketing ta...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! Gary Pageau interviews Brenda DiVincenzo , vice president of member success, at the IPI Member Network . Brenda shares with us the latest news from IPI, plus shares tips and tactics photo specialty firms are using to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. Energize your sales with Shareme.chat , the proven texting platform.  ShareMe. Chat   ShareMe. Chat platform uses...

Have an idea or tip? Send us a text! The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented problems for photographers and retailers. The Dead Pixels Society editor Gary Pageau talks with Eric Miller of Miller Foto about tools and tactics to survive and thrive. fnNF3q3XxApYo3T29z8I fnNF3q3XxApYo3T29z8I Energize your sales with Shareme.chat , the proven texting platform.  ShareMe. Chat   ShareMe. Chat plat...