COLOGNE, Germany, September 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ --
-- Rollout of new KODAK Picture Kiosk Software v4.0 Demonstrates Clear Upsell Opportunity for Photo Retailers
Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK), announced the global availability of its new KODAK Picture Kiosk Software v4.0, offering powerful new features and enhancements to Kodak Kiosk, including a number of industry firsts such as Kodak Video Snapshots, Kodak's Pet Eye Retouch, Kodak's Facial Retouch and true one-touch premium products. The new features are available now in stores throughout the US, Canada and Germany, and are rolling out now through other parts of Europe, Australia and South America.
Installations of the new KODAK Picture Kiosk Software v4.0 at major U.S. retailers are already demonstrating the new platform's ability to engage and inspire consumers to create highly profitable premium photo products:
- Recent usage data from Kodak kiosks with KODAK Picture Kiosk software
4.0 installed at leading retailers indicated that one touch premium
upsells are enjoying an amazing acceptance rate of greater than 5%
translating into incremental retailer revenue of over US$800 per year
per kiosk.
- Initial test results at a major retailer indicate that multiple prints
per day/per store, representing up to US$600 in potential retailer
revenue per year, could result from the new connectivity to online
photo sites such as KODAK Gallery, FACEBOOK and PICASA WEB ALBUMS made
possible by the new Kodak Kiosk software - and the test was performed
without any promotion or advertising.
- Consumer research shows that 65 percent of consumers were likely to use
Kodak's Pet Eye Retouch feature, and remarkably, 28 percent would be
willing to change where they print to get it. (1)
"Kodak's commitment to retailers is to deliver a superior consumer experience in store that translates into tangible profit opportunity," said Nicoletta Zongrone, General Manager and Vice President, Eastman Kodak Company. "Our retailer partners love the new Kiosk software because it solves imaging problems that have been barriers to expanding photo merchandising, and at the same time, inspires consumers go beyond the 4x6 prints - to easily create truly memorable photo keepsakes."
New features of KODAK Picture Kiosk Software v4.0 solve real problems for consumers and retailers:
- In 2010, consumers around the world will capture over 4.5 million
terabytes of video, most of which currently stay locked in digital
files. Kodak's Video Snapshots unlocks these-in-the-moment video images
and lets consumers use them to create prints, collages, greeting cards,
photo books and calendars, or store them on a CD making them easier to
share and relive. The ability to make memorable still prints, photo
books and collages that consumers can be enjoy at a glance presents an
enormous opportunity for retailers.(2)
- With 62 million pet households in the European Union alone (3), pets
rank in the top four of all captured images.(3) Kodak's Pet Eye Retouch
allows these consumers to fix the very common and problematic pet eye
glare caused by flash photography of their furry companions.
- Helping people look their best, Kodak's market-proven Facial Retouch
Feature, at the touch of one button smoothes wrinkles, diminishes
and/or erases blemishes and improves skin tone for more perfect photo
keepsakes. This technology was successfully tested and launched with
major European retailers and is now available to all Kodak retail
partners around the globe.
- The new Software v4.0 also gives consumers using the KODAK Picture
Kiosk the ability to access the photos they have stored or shared on
the KODAK Gallery, FACEBOOK and PICASA WEB ALBUMS, and easily use them
to create photo keepsakes in minutes right in the store. With more than
500 Million active consumers(4) and more than three billion photos
uploaded each month(5) to these sites, the software offers retailers a
huge opportunity to market their unique in-store services to these
users.
- Designed to help consumers become aware of the powerful new sharing
solutions, and retailers to increase market basket opportunity, the new
software now offers a complete suite of merchandising tools. Fresh,
lively welcome screen messaging offers ideas for new projects right
from the start, and the intelligent one-touch premium upsell feature
creates animated product suggestions using the consumer's own images,
allowing her to purchase an additional product instantly with the touch
of one button.
In addition to exciting new features, KODAK Picture Kiosk Software v4.0 takes work out for the consumer. The new software requires fewer consumer touches, writes KODAK Picture CDs up to 33 percent faster, and creates KODAK Photo Books faster and more easily than with previous generation solutions. This translates into less queuing, improved customer satisfaction and more profit potential per minute.
KODAK Picture Kiosk Software v4.0 is in many stores now. For more information on this and other exciting solutions visit http://www.kodak.com or come visit us at Photokina in Cologne, Germany.
About Kodak
As the world's foremost imaging innovator, Kodak helps consumers, businesses, and creative professionals unleash the power of pictures and printing to enrich their lives.
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(1) Kodak Business Research
(2) Source: IDC Market Analysis - Worldwide User-Generated Video Content
and Archive 2010-2013 Forecast: The Video Bible
(3) Source: The European Pet Food Industry (www.fediaf.org)
(4) Facebook(R) Press Room Statistics, Facebook.com, 9/16/10
(5) Facebook(R) Press Room Statistics, Facebook.com, 2/18/10
Jacqueline Mangione, +1-585-724-0732, jacqueline.mangione@kodak.com; Nicole Mayo, Ketchum, +1-404-879-9106, nicole.mayo@ketchum.com
