User Gen versus Action Shots in ShopSavvy
Millions of ShopSavvy users have, at one time or another, updated the photo of a product. When we added the ability for users to edit product images, titles, retailers and prices we were surprised how many users added ‘action shots’ of products. What is the difference between a user generated product image and an action shot? The original intent was for users to add photos of products that didn’t have an image or those with low quality images. Action shots often include the user holding the product or perhaps the user’s dog holding the product. There are SOOOOO many great pictures that users have uploaded we decided it would be fun to let you see them in the app. Beginning in our latest Android release (i.e. it is not in our current iOS release) in the lower right corner of the product preview page (i.e. the one with the product picture) you will see a ‘Photos’ icon. You can click here to see and vote on action shots submitted by other users. You can also add your own action shots. You can still ‘edit’ the photo in the options menu, but now you have a quick an easy way to add fun action shots. Since we have more than 20,000,000 user photos in our system we can’t comb through them all and determine which are user gen and which are action shots – instead we are starting fresh so you won’t see many action shots to start with. Check out some example ‘action shots’ our users have uploaded for Toy Story 3.
