Together with the Guardian, Getty Images-owned iStockphoto is sponsoring Britain iS — a competition that captures Britain in 2010. Photo categories range from best urban image to “good stock,” as in best suited to stock imagery.

SpiderPic, a division of the Israel based company Ginipic, has launched a new service to help image buyers find the cheapest source for microstock images. This is accomplished by simultaneously searching across multiple sites for specific images.

Munich-based microstock PantherMedia has updated its Web site. The company says new home page better organizes pricing information and includes a first-in-market feature: allowing customers to switch between light and dark background designs based on individual preference. Numerous other features were added throughout the site. These include new navigation, more display options in the search interface and the ability to …

Hosted by the American Society of Picture Professionals and the Picture Archive Council of America on April 15-18 in Boston, participants of the Reinvention Weekend will attend presentations and panels geared to help reinvent, reimagine and reinvigorate the photography business.

Corbis has notified photographers with rights-managed images on Veer that the company will be moving all that imagery to the Corbis site in 2010 to more “strategically differentiate their two stock photography brands.” The rights-managed imagery that has been placed on channel partner sites around the world will continue to be marketed through those sites.