User Generated Content

Pearson Education Sourcing Images Through Scoopshot

By Jim Pickerell | 323 Words | Posted 3/6/2015 | Comments
Scoopshot, the leading mobile platform for photo and video crowdsourcing, has partnered with Pearson. In an effort to reach out and engage millennials, Pearson is using Scoopshot to crowdsource photos from around the world to illustrate its publications.

Are Crowdsourced Photos Really The Wave Of The Future?

By Jim Pickerell | 456 Words | Posted 3/2/2015 | Comments
A new mobile-oriented, crowdsourced photography service called Twenty20 was launched recently. They claim to have the world’s largest crowdsourced commercial image catalog with 45 million imagers from 250,000 photographers based in 154 countries.

The Future of Advertising

By Jim Pickerell | 1916 Words | Posted 12/29/2014 | Comments
Before reading this colloquy between Paul Melcher and myself the reader should review my story on “Authentic And Real Images” and all the comments that started our whole conversation. Paul makes some excellent points. To a large extent I agree with his entire analysis. There is about to be some dramatic shifts in the way advertising is delivered. These stories look at some of the implications for photographers.

New Features Added To Alamy’s Stockimo App

By Jim Pickerell | 418 Words | Posted 12/10/2014 | Comments
Alamy has added new features to its successful mobile app Stockimo that was launched last February. To date more than 180,000 images have been submitted through the app and 99,000 have been accepted for marketing. These images can be found among the almost 53 million images on Alamy.com using the keyword “Stockimo.”

FOAP Raises $2.3 Million

By Jim Pickerell | 339 Words | Posted 12/9/2014 | Comments
The crowdsourcing site FOAP has raised a fresh $2.3 million in funding from some interesting names like CNN Worldwide President, Jeff Zucker; CEO and Co-Founder of VaynerMedia, Gary Vaynerchuk; Upshot Chairman and Protagonist LLC Partner, Jordan Rednor; and CEO of Delivery Hero, Niklas Ostberg, among others. The company raised another $1.5 million in August. Total funding now stands at roughly $5 million but they’re not quite ready to call this a Series A yet.

Barter: The New Way To Pay For Photos

By Jim Pickerell | 661 Words | Posted 7/17/2014 | Comments
As image users become more and more reluctant to pay much, if anything, for the images they need compensation for the use of photos may migrate to a barter system.

Image Licensing Decline

By Jim Pickerell | 80 Words | Posted 7/3/2014 | Comments
Robert Henson has provided an important perspective on the Decline of Image Licensing on Paul Melcher’s blog. He succinctly outlines some of the key changes in the imaging business that will undoubtedly lead to a further price declines. There are also indications that fewer professional produced images will be needed as more and more customers find other ways to acquire the images they need. This is a must read for anyone looking for a future as a stock image producer.

Scoopshot Expands Photo and Video Crowdsourcing

By Jim Pickerell | 472 Words | Posted 6/26/2014 | Comments
Scoopshot, reports that over 500,000 photographers and videographers from 177 countries contribute images to its service and that more than 70 leading media companies and brands including USA Today, News Corp Australia, Apple Daily, WAZ, Fiat, Finnair, Oxfam and many others use Scoopshot to gain instant access to a global pool of Scoopshooters. In the US, the Scoopshot user base has increased from 14,000 to nearly 50,000 in just six weeks.

ALERT: UK Government About To Allow Use Of Your Images Without Compensation

By Jim Pickerell | 989 Words | Posted 6/10/2014 | Comments
In early October 2014 the UK government is expected to change its copyright legislation and introduce an Extended Collective Licensing (ECL) scheme that will enable collecting societies to authorize use of any image within the UK. Please respond to this survey (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ECL-Opt-out) before 12pm 23 June 2014.

Is Pay-Per-View The Future For Web Use?

By Jim Pickerell | 419 Words | Posted 5/19/2014 | Comments
Blend Images and Danita Delimont Stock Photography have recently joined the IMGembed community. IMGembed went live in March 2013 and currently has millions of images in its collection. Previously, we have reported on Getty’s embedding strategy and PressFoto’s ImageRent. IMGembed offers another approach to the pay-per-view strategy for monetizing images.

The Fire Hose

By Peter Krogh | 634 Words | Posted 4/4/2014 | Comments
Peter Krogh has written a disturbing report about how the value of imagery is about to be slashed once again. It’s called The Fire Hose concept. We have reprinted his report with his permission. Peter is also author of the DAM Book (digital asset management) and a group of publications on the use of Lightroom 5. For information about these publications see here.