01 Sep, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



BONUS -- Alamy gives 100% royalties as the collection nears 20 million photos - To celebrate Alamy hitting the 20 million images mark, the company is giving their contributors the chance to earn 100% royalties on their sales. http://www.photonewstoday.com/news/alamy-gives-100-royalties-as-the-collection-nears-20-million-photos

WHAT GOES AROUND -- Picture buyers panel confronts challenges – From Marco: “This is the podcast of the second panel at the 2010 Picture Buyers Fair in London. This time we had a great group of picture buyers to engage in a public discussion. Where many discussions take place in the stock photography industry, not many involve the actual buyers. This made this discussion both interesting as well as confrontational at times. This is a podcast. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/blog/2010/08/24/panel-of-picture-buyers-confronts-challenges/
TAKEAWAY: Although this panel took place in 2010, it mirrored the same type of comments at similar conferences in the last century. Buyers and sellers can't agree on what to charge. What else is new?


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27 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



AWKWARD STOCK PHOTOS -- It's those cringe-making stock shots you hoped everybody had forgotten about. http://awkwardstockphotos.com/
TAKEAWAY: You can’t always come up with winners.


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21 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



MONEY BACK -- Recently stock image distributors have sent messages to their contributors offering to file to collect reprographic royalties in the United Kingdom from the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS). SAA suggests that contributors would do better to file a claim directly with the DACS website. Who can file a claim? Any visual artist whose works have been licensed for qualifying editorial uses in the UK can file for reimbursement. You do not need to be a UK resident or citizen. http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/node/812

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14 Jul, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes




MIRROR ON THE WALL -- Will stock agencies become obsolete? No one ever expected it, but formats similar to FACEBOOK maybe become the search format of the future to acquire photos. According to comScore, Facebook is growing at three times the speed of top photo websites. It is not customary to compare a social networking site and a photo sharing site, but this has become unavoidable in this case. SOURCE: Rohit Bhat http://www.watblog.com/2010/07/12/facebook-photos-leave-flickr-picasa-way-behind/
http://www.comscore.com/About_comScore

CO-EXISTENCE -- On July 1 2010, Crestock was acquired by Masterfile Corporation. Acquisitions of microstock agencies by more traditional stock agencies have been a common trend over the past few years. Both micro and macro agencies seem poles apart with their price levels and business strategies, but the sensible people at least realize that they now both have a place in the market and can coexist.
http://www.microstockposts.com/is-it-time-to-give-crestock-another-try/

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30 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psnotes



GETTING’ CONTROL -- ”Melcher”: I don’t get it. It’s Monday, I don’t get it. People in this industry used to be really upset with Flickr and Creative Commons. Mostly because creatives and editors worldwide could get free images in exchange of a credit, or an electronic pat on the back. Scores of ad campaigns or magazines started to use unbelievably cheap images instead of “professional” images from Stock houses. http://blog.melchersystem.com/2010/06/21/blowing-a-candle/

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23 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



A THREAT TO AGENCIES ? -- You’d think that microstock companies have nothing to worry about. This time last year, iStockPhoto was predicting revenues of about $200 million — and that after Getty had bought the company just three years earlier for $50 million. Six months ago, Fotolia announced that it had 8 million images available, and as companies battle for plug-in space on the ribbons in Microsoft Office 2010, these hardly look like difficult times for the low-cost image industry. And yet something does seem to be bothering the stock world as a whole. It’s a threat so large that Getty, Shutterstock, PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) and BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) have all teamed up to fight it together. Source: Dean; photopreneur; http://blogs.photopreneur.com/stock-photography-rights?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29


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16 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



INCENTIVE -- Adobe® Expands SAA Member Discount Offer - Adobe is allowing two uses of SAA's 15% association discount through the end of August so SAA members can save on both Adobe Creative Suite® 5 and Lightroom® 3. http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/node/806
TAKEAWAY: For more information about SAA (Stock Artists Alliance). http://www.stockartistsalliance.org/


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09 Jun, 2010 | Posted by: psn



SO YOU WANNA BE ONE-- --How to Create a Stock Photo Agency. The digital camera changed the photo industry radically. More stock agencies exist than ever before, millions of digital images are instantly available online and prices can be as low as 1 cent. The advantages to starting your own stock photo agency in a highly competitive market are that you control the pricing structure and you will reap the benefits of selling your photos, rather than making a percentage of sales. If you are not afraid of cold calls and hard work, you can be successful. http://www.ehow.com/how_6571158_create-stock-photo-agency.html


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21 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



IS EDITORIAL STOCK POPULAR? -- Photolibrary moving into editorial imagery - Photolibrary is making a decisive step to move into the editorial image space with the exclusive representation of Presselect. The Presselect collection contains hundreds of thousands of news, celebrity, entertainment, historical and travel images. SOURCE: FastMediaGroup http://www.fastmediagroup.com/archives/5524

SO, IT’S ALL ABOUT CHEAP ? – Tony Stone, founder of the iconic stock photography agency Tony Stone Images (now the Stone collection at Getty Images) has joined microstock agency Vivozoom . He will lead creative strategy at the Jacksonville agency. Industry veteran Stone was brought in by Vivozoom CEO Lawrence Gould, who previously worked as CFO at both Getty Images and Tony Stone images. Vivozoom prides itself on being 40% cheaper than microstock market leader iStockphoto and by offering a guarantee on its image files. SOURCE: http://www.microstockdiaries.com/tony-stone-joins-vivozoom.html
TAKEAWAY: In most people’s minds in this stock photo industry, the Tony Stone brand was the top. What irony! Now it has sunk to the bottom. What happened, did the stimulus money run out ? –RE


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07 Apr, 2010 | Posted by: psn



‘MICROSTOCK IL’ -- Agency opens opened in Israel aims to offer a vast repository of images for commercial use covering life in Israel, and Jewish, Islamic and Christians holy places. http://www.caymanmama.com/2010/03/30/new-israeli-microstock-agency-opens-for-user-id-yanivhanina_201003306320.html



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17 Mar, 2010 | Posted by: psn



PICK-A-NICHE – For corporate stock photographers and graphic artists, not a pretty picture out there. Survival will increasingly depend on niche-mining, since the stopper won't ever be put back in the stock-photography bottle. A decade ago, professional photographers thought nothing of selling pictures to stock photo houses. But what once provided a source of income went into catalogs of nearly endless size and accessibility.
Seemingly overnight, a publisher who wanted a picture of a sunset could choose from thousands on any number of databases. Why pay a photographer hundreds, or thousands, of dollars to go out and shoot a new one? SOURCE: James Rainey; BRAND-X http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2010/03/cheap-shots-.html
TAKEAWAY: If you are still shooting stock “across-the-board” this is counsel to stop and select an area that you love shooting in, find photo editors in that niche, and cultivate them. You’ll survive easily. You won’t survive shooting every thing that comes along and hope someone comes to your door and asks for it.


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24 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn



CHANGES AT CORBIS -- Corbis simplifies rights managed licensing model - Corbis is making changes to its online calculator for rights managed images in an effort to make licensing simpler. Rajiv Jain, CTO and SVP/General Manager (That’s a lot of titles for one person…) said Corbis has reinvented the rights managed licensing model and “brought the RM price calculator into the internet age”. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=4192


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17 Feb, 2010 | Posted by: psn




MORE OPPORTUNITIES -- Stock Photography Agencies for Amateur Photographers - There are options that allow photographers to sell licenses for real money while still enjoying minimal acceptance requirements and open opportunities. Here are five of them. http://blogs.photopreneur.com/stock-photography-agencies-for-amateur-photographers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotopreneurBlog+%28Photopreneur+Blog%29

FREE WHEELING -- Is Fotomoto a threat to traditional stock agencies? - The company allows photographers to sell their images and products on their own website without directing them elsewhere. It’s primary focus is selling photography for prints and cards but in principle the system allows for any type of licensing, including usage. http://www.fastmediamagazine.com/?p=4050

ANOTHER WAY -- Photoseekers tell them what they want. Photographers show them their best shots. Seekers buy the photo they like best. www.focalpop.com/



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20 Jan, 2010 | Posted by: psn



SCIENCE -- Supply Science Pictures for Photo Researchers - Photo Researchers is a highly specialized niche stock site that has been offering scientific photos for more than 50 years. Today, about 80 percent of contributors are photographers. PS: This agency has been mine for 45 years.
http://rising.blackstar.com/supply-science-pictures-for-photo-researchers.html#more-8039
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SOLELY FEMALE – (UK) The Format ethos aimed to encourage its members to develop their creativity and careers, while remaining sensitive to the context in which their images were used and distributed. It portrayed people and issues that were under-represented in the mainstream media of the time. By photographing women and men in non-traditional roles, its members aimed to break down gender stereotypes, and change the way women and other marginalized groups were perceived.
A new photographic display will celebrate the work of Format Photography Agency, the only solely female agency in British photographic history. The seventeen portraits on display will reflect the scope and achievement of this agency and this will be the first display devoted to Format at the National Portrait Gallery. SOURCE: ©Maggie Murray/Format ArtDaily UK
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35701


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22 Dec, 2009 | Posted by: psn



ADVENTURE PIX – Grand Opening -- Extreme Nature Photography Adventure Gear Store.
ForestWander Nature Photography, the world wide source for royalty free quality stock nature pictures, has partnered with hundreds of affiliates to offer thousands of extreme nature photography adventure gear products. http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20091217/bs_prweb/prweb3338054


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18 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



MUSCLE: -- Age Fotostock, ChromaZone Flowers, easyFotostock, ImageDJ and ImageMore are now in PhotoAsia. PhotoAsia, Malaysia's pioneer stock photo library, today announced the addition of five image collections incorporating over 3.4 million Rights-Managed (RM) and Royalty-Free (RF) images which can now be browsed and licensed through PhotoAsia.
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11 Nov, 2009 | Posted by: psn



PHOENIX? – James West: "Alamy Quarterly Statement Q3 2009 - Q3 2009 results will reflect what we hope is the bottom of the downturn. It's too early to predict what Q4 will look like, but I can say that September and October numbers have been very reassuring. http://www.alamy.com/contributors/statements/default.asp
TAKEAWAY: The economy is one distracting factor of this pioneering organization but another is the billions of photos being offered by equally new competent micro sites coming on the scene.


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30 Sep, 2009 | Posted by: psn



GETTING BETTER -- Shutterstock has just announced its acquisition of BigStockPhoto, a credit-based stock photo agency headquartered in Davis, California. http://bit.ly/36sMSJ


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02 Sep, 2009 | Posted by: psn




WANTED: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PHOTOJOURNALISM BUSINESS MODEL. -- PDN recently sat down with VII Photo Agency managing director Stephen Mayes to discuss how the agency's business is evolving and to get his take on photojournalism in the new millennium. Stephen Mayes: “The most telling comment I’ve heard in recent months is that journalism in the twenty-first century is yet to be invented, and that what we’re all struggling to do is to maintain an old model in a new system, and it’s incompatible in many ways.”
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/features/pdn-online/e3i8b95ac51de67e196d15ec26cbd94da1b


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19 Aug, 2009 | Posted by: psn




TINY PIX -- Getty Launches Little Image Offering. Stock photography giant Getty Images has launched a new web and mobile product, featuring smaller images at a lower price. As online images require only smaller file sizes and a more modest resolution, 170 and 280-pixel images will be offered for sale for $5 and $15 respectively. http://bit.ly/zdjTt
TAKEAWAY: Looks like the door is opening a little wider for microstock.


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04 Aug, 2009 | Posted by: psn




THE EVOLVING MARKETPLACE -- This Month in Microstock - July 2009 - July saw more than it's fair share of action in the microstock and stock photography business. Big brands Google and Time Magazine also contributed to the landscape of the evolving marketplace.
http://www.microstockdiaries.com/this-month-in-microstock-july-2009.html


NO LEGAL PROBLEMS. Vivozoom, a new stock-photo site by former Getty Images executives, looks to offer buyers peace of mind. The company guarantees that all of the images for sale on its site are legally safe to use. If a legitimate legal claim does appear, Vivozoom says it will provide legal defense and responsibility for damages up to $25,000.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/168808/vivozoom_guarantees_stock_photos.html


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29 Jul, 2009 | Posted by: psn





CRYSTAL BALL – Photo Agencies and The Stock Industry: a Matter of Proportion - For as long as the industry remains chaotic and unmanaged by any central body, stock photography will also be unstructured. There will be little innovation that helps sort, rank and distribute photos based on merit--it'll remain as it is now: arbitrary.
Begin by dispensing of the premise that agencies are the de facto channel for stock photo purchases. You can (and should) sell directly yourself, irrespective if whether you also sell through agencies.
http://danheller.blogspot.com/2009/07/photo-agencys-and-stock-industry-matter.html
TAKEAWAY: The nice thing about the Internet is it’s not like a newspaper where you snip out the article, file it, and forget it. Crystal ballers face the new adversary: Central datacenters that don’t allow anything, after several years, to turn antique brown and crumble away. So, enjoy Dan Heller for both his analytics and amusing predictions.

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16 Jul, 2009 | Posted by: psn




THE BIGGEST AGENCY? Google Image Search gets usage rights filtering - In an effort to keep people from incorrectly reusing or repurposing images found on its image search tool, Google has added new options that let users filter results by usage rights. Users can now filter photos by whether they're available for reuse, commercial reuse, reuse with modification, or commercial use with modification. http://news.cnet.com/webware/digital-photography/
TAKEAWAY: This could add more coinage to the coffers of photographers whose images have been displayed on Google Images. Eventually Google will devise a payment structure that will benefit both the Big G –and you.


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24 Jun, 2009 | Posted by: psn




A PLACE FOR STORYTELLERS – Pre-Designed Websites For Photojournalists - LiveBooks. Photojournalism goes far beyond the ability to develop websites. It is also home to an international online community of photojournalists, documentary photographers, and photo industry professionals working to keep visual storytelling economically feasible and socially relevant.
http://www.shutterbug.com/news/061509livebook/


CURRENT STATE OF STOCK (shock?) Let’s let Corbis and Getty tell us where corporate stock photography is today and where its going. By Mark Edward Harris. http://www.digitalphotopro.com/business/the-new-face-of-stock-photography.html?start=3


From Agency Uncle:
Q: Uncle Carl: “How can I convince my clients to commission
real photography rather than relying on staid and obvious
stock photography? My team is keen to support and champion
good, local photographers, but we can’t do this while our clients
continually want to use existing stock. One has even gone as
far as searching the image catalogues himself. What can we do?

A: (Uncle Carl Answers): “What’s in it for me?” that’s what your client is thinking. Demonstrate a benefit, a financial benefit, does it cost more or less? Will it increase his sales? Could he charge more for his product or service with better photography? Perhaps there is a brand benefit, will it make his products look less TK Maxx and more White Company? Would it make his service stand out from the competition or reflect the aspirations of his prospects? Vox pop customers or prospects and show them the same piece of work with two different styles of photography and decide if the products or services somehow look more desirable.
You can try and push a donkey into a barn all day long and fail, or you can lead him there with a carrot – so stop pushing him you ass and work out what your Donkeys…sorry, clients ‘carrot’ is.
http://www.thedrum.co.uk/indepth/1850-agency-agony-uncle


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17 Jun, 2009 | Posted by: psn



MSN GOES FOR APPEAL. The search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN,(Bing) AOL, etc.) are always looking for traffic to their site – and what better way to appeal to a passerby than an appealing photo? Danita Delimonte is proving you don’t have to be numero uno to have your photos selected by Microsoft. Danita reports: “When they approached us about licensing beautiful, scenic images from around the world for their search homepage (Bing), we were happy to help. This is the second image of ours they've used since they launched a week or so ago.” www.DanitaDelimont.com





GET IN LINE. -- Veer Marketplace Open for Image Submissions - New contributors may upload 10 images for review. Once the images have been vetted and approved, contributors can upload their portfolios. Standard royalty rates per image download range from $0.35 to $7.00, and the subscription royalty rate per image download ranges from $0.20 to $4.00, depending on image size.
http://www.creativepro.com/article/veer-marketplace-open-image-submissions


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10 Jun, 2009 | Posted by: psn





EXPANDING . Fotosearch Stock Photography Hits 5 Million Images. Adding more than two million photos in the past year, Fotosearch continues to be one of the largest collections of premium royalty-free and rights managed images in the world. http://www.pr-inside.com/fotosearch-stock-photography-hits-r1290896.htm


THE BIG PICTURE -- FolioLink Unveils BIG Photography Websites. FolioLink, the online website service for photographers, announced the immediate availability of scaling technology in their latest FLASH design. The latest FolioLink website design seamlessly scales the images down to fit the viewer's monitor.
http://bit.ly/15RNYy


AP Images, a commercial image licensing division of The Associated Press, announced the launch of an enhanced version of its APimges.com site for image buyers.
http://www.abouttheimage.com/4127/ap_images_launches_new_b2b_stock_photography_site/author2


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03 Jun, 2009 | Posted by: psn





YOU CAN’T HIDE Find a Local Photographer - Stock agency Alamy draws on its database of shooters and Google Maps to launch a free "Find a Photographer" service. http://www.creativepro.com/article/find-local-photographer


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27 May, 2009 | Posted by: psn



ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE? Getty Images supposedly in talks to buy ITN. Sharehlders report that detailed discussions to sell a majority stake in the British “News at Ten and Channel 4 News” to Getty Images, the international picture agency.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/20/itn-sale-getty-images
TAKEAWAY: No doubt Channel 4 News has abundant archival footage. Keep alert, your next camera may be video.


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13 May, 2009 | Posted by: psn





A+ to D- - Getty Makes Plans for Photos.com, Runs Into iStock Friction. In the last few days, a series of announcements on the iStockphoto forums indicate that Getty plans to make some changes to Photos.com. For starters: The worst-performing photos on iStockphoto will soon be available on Photos.com (as well as on the higher-priced service Jupiterimages Unlimited).

GOOD SOURCE -- A new blog with the aim of providing frequently updated, high quality stock photography content to both photographers and clients, is multi-ethnic photo provider, PhotoEdit Inc. The agency is (www.photoeditinc.com), is located in Orange County, California and specializing in a variety of candid and realistic multi-ethnic and multi-cultural imagery.
http://www.pr.com/press-release/150731


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06 May, 2009 | Posted by: psn



IN MARCO POLO’S FOOTSTEPS -- Masterfile, a stock photography company based in Toronto with offices in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, has announced that it is expanding operations in South Asia by launching local service for clients in India.
http://www.abouttheimage.com/4100/masterfile_opens_office_in_hyderabad_india/author2

OLYMPIC PROVIDER AGAIN -- Getty Re-Ups With U.S. Olympic Committee. Soon after losing the NFL contract, Getty Images has announced it has renewed its commercial licensing partnership with the U.S. Olympic Committee through 2012. Getty also remains the official photo partner of the International Olympic Committee.
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/04/getty-reups-with-us-olympic-committee.html


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29 Apr, 2009 | Posted by: psn




AIMING HIGHER -- Picli wants to be the home of great photography on the web
Picli's creators think their site is more creative and open than their photo-sharing site rivals, and they want to attract high-quality photos that invite comments and around a constantly changing gallery of quality creative content, created and published by its users. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/apr/21/startups-photography


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22 Apr, 2009 | Posted by: psn



KEEPIN’ THE BOOKS -- vvpicNiche Toolbars - Bob Davies, creator of the picNiche.com keyword tool, has created two microstock FireFox toolbars. The contributor toolbar is designed to make life easier for microstockers. It automatically checks your earnings, provides an FTP upload tool within the browser, notifies you of sales and image approvals, and partially automates submit pages.
http://www.microstockdiaries.com/picniche-toolbars.html





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15 Apr, 2009 | Posted by: psn




VIDEO IS EMERGING -- Corbis Launches New Motion Web Site - The expanded collection includes nearly 150,000 clips in HD as well as 80,000 RF clips, which can be licensed once and used across all types of media for the licensed use for as long as customers want.
http://www.creativepro.com/article/corbis-launches-new-motion-web-site
TAKEAWAY: Your next equipment investment will be a pro video camera.
he stock industry is moving that way.

ARE UNIONS NEXT? – …NFL and the Wayward Getty Images - Getty loses what amounts to the cash cow with a large portion of all their commercial sports sales, according to sources. Getty could find themselves in legal trouble if they preclude "their photographers" (that is, contractors) from doing other work for another media organization, forcing photographers to choose between leagues. http://photobusinessforum.blogspot.com/2009/04/nfl-and-wayward-getty-images.html


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08 Apr, 2009 | Posted by: psn




DUTCH AGENCY AIMS AT POP BUYERS “Stock photos have so saturated the Internet and print media that mere stock photography is beginning to lose its impact,” says EyeLikeImages.com founder and owner Astrid Jacobs. “Consumers and creative directors are looking for ‘pop’ and that’s what our artful imagery delivers,” Jacobs adds.
http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=91155


MORE PIX. -- Getty and Time Inc. Launch LIFE.com - The site, targeted at consumers, is launching March 31 with 7 million professional images presented in eye-catching galleries.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/photojournalism/e3i8f701cf03395decae2b62affa4849e6c


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01 Apr, 2009 | Posted by: psn



TRACKING MISUSE SuperStock/RGB Ventures taps PicScout to track copyright infringements. "We chose PicScout because of their technology leadership in image tracking. PicScout will help us, as a stock agency, promote the value of copyright ownership for the artists we represent." said Lanny Ziering, CEO, SuperStock.


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18 Mar, 2009 | Posted by: psn




CHIPPING AWAY Getty Images is cutting 110 jobs, or 5 percent of its global work force, in its first major round of layoffs since 2007. In an e-mail to his employees, Getty CEO Jonathan Klein said the cuts are a reflection of changes in the imagery business. As it cuts costs, Getty is joining many other companies in suspending matching investments for employee 401k retirement plans. From Darryl Lang
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/photojournalism/e3i5040ba3f2c4388b69d7a9d2355632b82


EXTRA INCOME -- Getty Images has switched on a program by which selected Flickr photographers can license their images to paying customers. According to the Flickr help section on the Getty program, Yahoo switches Creative Commons-licensed photos to all rights reserved if they're submitted to Getty.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10193659-39.html?tag=mncol;title


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03 Mar, 2009 | Posted by: psn



SLIMMING DOWN -- Getty will cut staff, close offices at Jupiterimages - having completed its $9 million acquisition of Jupiterimages, Getty Images is now preparing to slash the stock agency's staff.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/stock-and-syndication/e3i615140fc749e47980c1026981eb3df41

GETTING BIGGER -- Shutterstock's Image Library Hits 6 Million - "We continue to experience tremendous growth in both the size of our library and in the volume of images that our subscribers download," said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock.
http://www.stockphotographer.info/component/content/article/13-press-releases/786-shutterstocks-image-library-hits-6-million


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24 Feb, 2009 | Posted by: psn





DO YOU LIKE MY WEBSITE? Here’s a (free) research report on web design for marketing your stock photography, PhotoShelter has released “Photographer Websites: What Buyers Want Now”, a free research report detailing the results of a recent survey of 550+ commercial and editorial image buyers. The survey explores specific website design and feature preferences - what photobuyers love and hate about photographers' websites.
http://pa.photoshelter.com/about/index/news/20090219


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18 Feb, 2009 | Posted by: psn



MAKE WAY FOR VIDEO This photo stock agency has moved full-time into multimedia content for the Internet - To meet the insatiable demand for video, motion picture and interactive content for the online world, Aurora Photos has launched a new company, Aurora Novus, to specifically address the needs of clients looking for storytelling at the next level.
http://www.stockphotographer.info/news/industry-news/766-aurora-photo-stock-agency-has-moved-full-time-into-multimedia-content-for-the-internet


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11 Feb, 2009 | Posted by: psn



GETTY GOBBLING AGAIN. Getty group at Flickr exposes itself - Getty, the popular global photolibrary carnivore, has now set up a Getty group at Flickr. Flickr's default licensing for punters' photos is Creative Commons to encourage
non-commercial photosharing. Getty now wishes to market many CC images as
Rights Managed.
http://copyrightaction.com/forum/getty-group-at-flickr-exposes-itself


REFLEX STOCK OPENS US OFFICE IN NEW YORK. Reflex Stock, a stock photography company based in Northern Ireland, has announced that it has ventured across the Atlantic to open a new office in New York City servicing North American image buyers. The opening of our US base is about focusing on and accelerating the growth of our business in North America" stated Dwyer O'Neill, Chief Executive of Reflex Stock.
http://www.abouttheimage.com/4040/reflex_stock_open_us_office_on_wall_street/author2/



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