(Entertainment-NewsWire.com, June 23, 2015 ) Clearwater, FL -- Since 2014 the selfie stick market has been on a rapidly accelerating upward trend. It began with extreme sports enthusiasts, most often with a GoPro camera rig, and was rapidly adopted by average consumers. First in the Asian market, spreading most quickly to Britain, and now across the pond to American shores, where it is spreading as what could be called a phenomenon -- not unlike the rise of the selfie itself.
"The selfie really started with the advent of the forward-facing camera phone," says Adventure Imaging Gear Director of PR, Courtney Jones. "Before that selfies were really hard to get right, because you never knew the picture you were taking until you could look at it -- after you actually took it. Once the forward camera became common on smart phones, the selfie took off." The combination of social media and forward cameras made the proliferation of selfies inevitable. Selfies grew quickly, reaching and going past the point where they were despised and ridiculed. Momentum was too great and the proliferation of selfies soared far beyond any negative image, and the "selfie" is now business as usual for all users. In that arena the selfie stick is a relatively new aspect, giving users the opportunity to extend their range and take a selfie at greater than arm's length.
"Like the selfie itself, all it took was a new technology to blow it wide open," says Ms. Jones. "The forward camera got the selfie going like a tsunami. Now the selfie stick is exploding and making it possible to take much larger, portrait-style pictures, of yourself, backgrounds, groups and so on."
The Selfie Snap Plus "Selfy Stick", by Adventure Imaging Gear, is a the latest player in this market. The Selfie Snap Plus is a second-generation stick, developed after thorough research of the first-gen market and what worked and what didn't. The Selfie Snap Plus is a fully-wired stick, battery free, thus eliminating the issues early sticks had either with Bluetooth pairing or battery failure. These were key issues of reliability that caused many early sticks to fail at the moment of photo capture, causing opportunities to be missed.
The Selfie Snap Plus is also made more durable, to resists flexing even during full extension, extends further than earlier models, and can accommodate a wide variety of phones.
The market for selfie sticks is currently on a step upward climb. The Selfie Snap Plus by Adventure Imagining Gear is a new offering in this market.
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