Industry revolves around selfie craze

Photographing "take a selfie" (selfie) not just a hobby, but also young people are bringing big profits to the parties involved.

She dug "super three" Kim Kardashian prepare aggregate book publishing photos selfie his favorite and plates taken with husband Kanye West has never been published. This book called Selfish is expected to be a popular work.

Last year, the Oxford dictionary adds keywords to describe selfie action a user device, eg smartphones, self photographed herself and then shared on the network. Even early May 1/2014, duo The Chainsmokers #Selfiereleased songs and quickly sold 850,000 copies in the US alone, to March 6/2014. Song popular that Universal Music has decided to launch Selfie The Album with songs related to such movement take a selfie photos ofDuke Dumont, Gorgon City, The Chainsmokers ... in 24/8 days.

Selfie backstage photos shared on Twitter record.

In May 3, Samsung spent nearly 20 million dollars for the ads phone Galaxy at the Oscars, but the largest effect came from photographs of selfie host Ellen DeGeneres and Hollywood orchestra. Image has attracted more than 3 million shares on Twitter just after one day. "Photos of DeGeneres selfie more effective ads Samsung. No amount of money is enough to buy such a large spread," Allen Adamson, director of Landor Associates, a comment on the Wall Street Journal.

Mobile industry - which provides support tools for selfie trend - more and can not ignore this market. Hundreds of companies have launched the application, software, equipment ... to help users more convenient in the portrait.

The phone companies with names such as Sony, HTC, LG ... and many Chinese companies such as Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Lenovo has launched a smartphone with a front camera up to 5-8 megapixels for sharp shooting help strokes. In addition, the product is equipped with extra wide angle lens for group portraits, accompanied by mode "Beauty Mode" support edit to face in the picture look better.

Many products support portraits were born, such as sticks selfie stick.

A unique product was born of this movement is the photography club "take a selfie" (selfie stick) at prices ranging from 200,000 to 1 million. The equipment is designed with two main parts including handles and phone holder. Handles are metal or plastic pipes may vary in length from 20 cm to 1 meter. Bracket using flexible clamping mechanism to be compatible with most smartphones with different sizes.

Meanwhile, a number of video tutorials "How can photograph the most beautiful selfie" ... YouTube has gained millions of views, help authors get Google to pay sums up to $ 30,000. Also x heating aid application, iTunes alone there were over 970 warehouse applications specializing selfie. The majority allows users to edit photos, such as wrinkles, pigmentation, add captions, effects, brightness ... or turn captures in paintings, animation ...