🗓 released October 27th 2023

✅ New sections available in the homepage

The Spotlight homepage has 2 new sections available:

 1. “Styles” based on the available tagging and featuring images assigned to each category. For example “academia”, “glam”, “minimalist” and many more.

2. “Celebrities” also based on available celebrity name tagging. It is another entry point to the "celebrities" album on top of the already existing tab in the top panel in order to highlight the content more (Read more about celebrities content in 🔗 this release note). The new “celebrities” section categorises the images based on the celebrity name. While the redirection from the top panel tab brings users to the generic “celebrities” album without any categorisation by name or designer.

🗓 released October 12th 2023

✅ New “Low resolution” download option for Unlimited Users

The “unlimited” users (i.e. the users belonging to a Magazine that has unlimited contract type → refer to 📃 this article for more info about contract types) have now also the possibility to download the images in Low Resolution (on top of the default Web High Resolution option that remains unchanged). 

The new Low Resolution download option corresponds to these specifications:

This allows the users to “try out” different image layouts while editing, without “clogging up” their computers. Once they made their choice they can return to the platform to re-download the images in the highest resolution.

✅ Harmonised video download options

The video download option is now disabled to all users whose contracts do not cover the video content. The users will not be able to download videos (download button disabled) and any videos downloaded directly from the Lightboxes will be skipped.

Only the users covered by the contract that included video content will have the download button active next to the video content.

🗓 released September 14th 2023

✅ “Legal Issues / Frozen” Contract Type

A new contract typology called “Legal Issues / Frozen” was added into the list of contract types available to be assigned to a Magazine in the Spotlight backoffice. 

This contract type can now be assigned to the Magazines which have some unsettled legal issues or for which the account needs to be suspended due to some other unforeseen reasons. 

Choosing this contract type will disable the download rights for all the users assigned to that Magazine. They will only be able to view the images.

This will incentivise the Magazines to solve their pending legal issues as soon as possible so that they can have their download rights again. Once the legal issues are resolved, the contract type can be changed back accordingly.

💡 For more details about the contract types refer to this 📃 Download Rights Article.

 🗓 released September 13th 2023

✅ New “Celebrities” tab on Spotlight homepage

Who are Celebrities?

Celebrities in Spotlight are all famous personas who attend the runway shows and are featured in the photographs related to that collection. They could be artists, influencers, famous editors etc.

How to find the photos featuring Celebrities?

A new tab called “Celebrities” has been added on the Spotlight homepage. By clicking it the users are brought to a page displaying all pictures from the celebrities album. The shooting context filter is automatically pre-set to be “Celebrities”.

In this way Spotlight users can more easily find celebrities content and understand who attended certain shows.

 🗓 released August 30th 2023

✨ New Feature | Magazines linked to Voices

A new field is now available in the Spotlight magazine back office: Voices.
Thanks to this field, we are now able to link a magazine to a Voice. This allows us to connect activations with placements.

This is a crucial challenge for Spotlight, Galleries, and ultimately the entire Launchmetrics. We ask for your help in linking the two when adding a new magazine. You can find all the information and steps to follow in a dedicated article.

Read more: 📃 https://help.launchmetrics.com/en_US/internal-process/linking-a-voices-to-a-magazine 

 🗓 released May 2nd, 2023

⚙️ Manage Magazine Users

You can now easily manage the users of your magazine by accepting or refusing all new external requests. You can also modify the rights of each member, such as whether they can only see images or download them, or if they can become an admin in their turn. Additionally, you can invite specific people from your organization to join your team.

🪄 Generate Magic Link

You can generate a magic link that you can easily share to get people to join your team. This feature is designed to streamline your workflow and make it easier for you to collaborate with your team members.

✅ Designate Another Administrator

If you need to designate another administrator from your team members, you can do so right now. This feature gives you the flexibility to delegate tasks and responsibilities to other members of your team, so you can focus on what matters most.

Where to find this?

In your personal settings pane, you'll find the “manage my team” link.

 

 🗓 released June 28th

✨ New Inspirational Content on Homepage

The aim of this new homepage is twofold: (1) giving you access to the latest content, quickly and easily; and (2) providing inspiration to write articles on the current season. 

Now, you are able to see the latest content at a glance, and then scroll down for inspiration.

✅ How does it work?

• New "Latest Content" Sections: 
  • Latest Collections: Find the content from the last 45 days at the top of the homepage. It is sorted by release date, but you can filter by collection as well.
  • Backstage, Beauty Portraits, & Street Fashion: a specific focus on our latest content from these hot categories
• New "Inspiration" Sections: these are from the season that is coming up in the "ordinary" calendar. For example, in April, we will show content for this upcoming Spring Summer (even though the shows happened back in September). This way, you can use this content to write articles for "this summer's upcoming trends".
  • More Beauty content, organized by Hairstyles.
  • A focus on Clothes and Accessories, organized by tag.

 🗓 released May 25th, 2022

✨ Access the platform in European Languages

Now the platform is available in 4 european languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, and German!

You can easily switch language using the menu in the top right-hand corner. If your language is not available, you can click on the link to request a new language. Our team will evaluate all requests and try to implement as many of them as possible.

Note that you can also search in your language, using specific fashion terms!

 🗓 released April 20th

✨ Search Improvements

More Visible Search Bar & New Hero

Now, in the homepage of the website, the search bar is front and center, with a horizontal image in the background, pulled from our most beautiful shots over the past few years.

This highlights the search bar better and allows you to get a quicker access to it.

Dynamic Link of Search and Filters

When you refine your search with filters, the filters will now appear in your query, which allows you to always edit your search any way you want.

Adding or removing filters also adds or removes from your search bar

 🗓 released April 20th

✅ Download Loaders

Before today, when you launched a download of a lightbox or collection, you could not know when it started, nor when it finished (not until you saw the content in your downloads folder). 

Now, the platform will display all your ongoing downloads in the top menu of the platform.

First, you will see a "generating package" loader while your images are being bundled together

Then, you will see a progress bar as your images are being downloaded one by one