Visual China Group’s Image Collections

Posted on 6/13/2016 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (0)

Visual China Group has provided a list of the third party image collections it represents. The combined totals of RM and RF images in these collections is over 10.5 million images.

It has been believed that VCG represents all the images in the Getty Images collection, but that appears not to be the case. (See Chart below). VCG has 64,408 images from the Stone collection, but if you search “All” for Stone on the Getty site there are 273,589 images. Evidently, VCG has edited the submissions offered them.  On the other hand, on the Getty site there are only 63,983 images under The Image Bank brand that is wholly owned by Getty, but VCG says they have 411,741 Image Bank images. Why does VCG have so many more images than Getty says it has?

RM VCG  Getty  Getty  Getty
  RM  RM Creative RF   All
Stone 64,408 138,896 134,693 273,589
The Image Bank 411,741 23,177 40,806 63,983
Moment 98,981 12,380 46,680 59,060
Aurora 33,099 4,523 5,810 10,333
National Geographic 101,467 4,139 91 4,230
Minden Pictures 9,438 100,718   100,718
Robert Harding 82,763 835 1,073 1,908
Science Source 87,753 4,946 4,045 8,991
SuperStock 37,531 27,045 176 27,221
Gallo Images 113,344 2,892 3,840 6,732
Johner Images 10,608 4,098 26,352 30,450
         
RF        
Brand X Pictures 27,889   8,684  
Westend61 64,695   133,028  
Image Source 83,614   160,075  
Blend 110,428   16,761  
Johner Images 25,899   26,352  
Tetra Images 73,741   37,019  
Science Photo Library 30,485   14,020  
Moment Open 804,498   492  
PhotoAlto 72,968   4,066  



In many cases VCG says they have a lot more images on their site than Getty has accepted. That could be because those agencies and brands have sent images that Getty refused to accept directly to VCG. But, there are cases where the number of images that can be found on Getty when searching for particular brands is extremely low. I find it hard to believe that Robert Harding World Imagery only has 835 RM images and a total or 1,908 including RF on Gettyimages.com.

Brands represented by Getty might want to check and make sure all their images are showing up when customers search for the subject matter they represent.

The list below shows all the brands with images on VCG indexed on the total number of images from each brand.



RM (Rights-Managed)     RF (Royalty-Free)  
The Image Bank 411741   Moment Open 804498
Lonely Planet Images 394504   E+ 572397
PhotoLibrary 362083   Photodisc 435164
BonAppetit-RM 249987   Stockbyte 432884
Photographer's Choice 199944   DigitalVision Vectors 339270
De Agostini Picture Library 152915   500px Core 264334
Multi-Bits-RM 123385   Moment 247763
Gallo Images 113344   WavebreakMedia_RF 216797
National Geographic 101467   Sino Images 182538
Moment 98981   500px Prime 140860
Sino Images 93223   TongRo 130467
Science Source 86753   Cultura 123895
Robert Harding World Imagery 82763   Photographer's Choice RF 115173
Dorling Kindersley 74118   imagenavi 113262
Stone 64408   Blend Images 110428
Britain On View 63932   Imagemore 100538
topicimages_RM 58420   DigitalVision 96992
AWL Images 56431   amana images 95338
Idreamstock-RM 53619   Vetta 91618
age fotostock 52711   Sino View-RF 90387
hemis.fr 52420   Image Source 83614
LOOK 49527   Fuse 80307
Oxford Scientific 49104   Tetra images 73741
BetterLiving 45292   PhotoAlto Agency RF 72968
All Canada Photos 44707   BJI 67759
Panoramic Images 43901   Foodcollection 64846
Universal Images Group 42017   Westend61 64695
Historic Map Works 41930   BVS 62742
Photononstop 41053   National Geographic 59653
Taxi 40905   Aflo 58800
Iconica 39802   Glowimages 53416
SuperStock 37531   UGI 43994
Picture Press 34758   Sino Focus RF 42645
Aurora 33099   MIXA 36373
First Light 32618   OJO Images 35002
Hulton Archive 32016   Purestock 32708
WaterFrame 31495   Rubberball Productions 31492
Visuals Unlimited 31282   TotalImage 31384
Glow 29997   Science Photo Library 30485
Aflo 28866   bambustone-RF 29150
amanaimages 26384   Brand X Pictures 27889
TongRo 24812   BLOOMimage 27833
arabianEye 22875   VSI-RF 26508
Altrendo 22845   Johner Images 25899
Stock4B 22385   Photosindia 25835
AsiaImages 20682   Design Pics 23307
Archive Photos 17087   BGV 21117
Photonica 16591   UpperCut Images 19870
Blend Images 16344   ONOKY 19717
Taxi Japan 14419   UIG 19342
Axiom Photographic Agency 14095   Imagezoo 19222
Perspectives 13926   Dorling Kindersley RF 18119
ImageRepublic 13918   Dex Image 17065
Retrofile 13565   Ivary RF 16809
WIN-Initiative 13062   fStop 16167
Riser 12620   Score by Aflo 15442
Sino View-RM 12280   Hero Images 13370
F1online 11731   Caiaimage 12458
The LIFE Picture Collection 11347   XiXinXing 12335
BJI 11105   Eastfenceimage 11936
Johner Images 10608   MedicalRF.com 11869
UIG 10410   NLP 11436
Livedinimages_RM 10059   Gallo Images ROOTS RF 11307
Science Faction 9895   Mint Images 11196
TotalImage 9485   Viewfly 10735
Minden Pictures 9438   Stocktrek Images 10656
Moment Select 9367   beyond fotomedia 10574
Photonica World 9324   AsiaPix 10297
UpperCut Images 8618   Stock4B-RF 10210
China Span 8256   Redchopsticks 10209
Illustration Works 8192   Collection Mix: Subjects 9622
Images Bazaar 7315   F1online 8871
SambaPhoto 7088   Aurora Open 8822
Ikon Images 6974   INMAGINE 8638
Nordic Photos 6916   Imagewerks Japan 8580
ABSODELS 6906   Livedinimages_RF 6965
Collection Mix: Subjects 6677   Hola Images 6914
bambustone-RM 5856   IZA Stock 6349
Mint-Images 4714   ZZVE Illustrations 6257
Mint Images 4477   HTI-RF 5961
Discovery Channel Images 4316   Gulfimages 5689
AFP Creative 3804   HAO 4752
NLP 3727   HaveImages 4596
VSI-RM 3674   ArtBox Images RF 4592
LatinContent 3661   iStock Exclusive 4341
U.P.Stock 3320   ABSODELS 3874
??????-RM 3249   DisabilityImages 3348
SAVOYE 3127   PictureIndia-RF 3085
muyi 3094   (Chinese) 2831
BGV 2704   muyi 2640
Imagezoo 2483   (Chinese) 2624
CGIBackgrounds 2318   LatinContent 2016
Allsport Concepts 2277   Retrofile RF 1693
UGI 2160   Operation Factory 1609
Viewfly 2095   MOA 1607
Science Photo Library 2017   APJT-RF 1357
Car Culture(R) Collection 1801   FYC 1157
Hola Images 1754   (Chinese) 929
StockFood Creative 1557   Shijue+ 909
Ivary RM 1490   jitu-RF 901
Nativestock 1388   (Chinese) 901
amana Premium 1219   QINGCHE 845
MST 1188   BGS 827
Popperfoto 1018   ACI 600
Shijue+ 1002   DADA-RF 564
Eastfenceimage 991   U.P.Stock 531
Fototrove 912   yifanwenhua 467
(Chinese) 562   qingyijiang 446
MOA 531   IndiaPicture 333
Untitled X-Ray 505   (Chinese) 328
HAO 491   (Chinese) 314
Art_Giving 440   tangcai 230
yifanwenhua 424   (Chinese) 218
Folio Images 411   nPine 99
(Chinese) 398   GeoNova Maps 85
(Chinese) 390   (Chinese) 13
qingyijiang 358   YTG 6
(Chinese) 294   maishiyingxiang-RF 3
QINGCHE-RM 253   amana Premium RF 0
BGS 203   Evok Images 0
jitu 200   EyeEm 0
(Chinese) 68   EyeEm Premium 0
tangcai 56   Foodad 0
HaveImages 50   HEX 0
TOMO 8   Hoxton 0
maishiyingxiang 4   ImageBROKER 0
America 24-7 0   Ingram Publishing 0
China Contour 0   Inmagineasia 0
Cultrua Exclusive 0   Istock Editorial 0
Cultura 0   iStock Unreleased 0
EyeEm RM 0   Juice-RF 0
Imagemore-RM 0   Maskot 0
Juice-RM 0   Moment Mobile 0
Mauritius 0   Moment Unreleased 0
Moment Mobile 0   Multi-bits RF 0
National Geographic Magazines 0   Oriental Touch 0
Operation Factory 0   Radius Images 0
Oriental Touch 0   Realistic Reflections 0
Trio Images 0   Room RF 0
uniteimages 0   Snapwi.re 0
Vault Archive-RM 0   Trio Images 0
Yann Arthus-Bertrand 0   TSZH 0
(Chinese) 0   UFO RF 0
(Chinese) 0   uniteimages 0
(Chinese) 0   Vault Archive-RF 0
(Chinese) 0   (Chinese) 0
(Chinese) 0   (Chinese) 0
(Chinese) 0   (Chinese) 0
      (Chinese) 0
         
  4,237,689 0 0 6,397,445


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