Fotolia founder and chief executive officer Oleg Tscheltzoff is also the CEO of Flixtime, a new free Web site that allows users to create their own custom production-quality videos. In addition to providing tools to turn users' own images, clips and text into 60-second videos, Flixtime is also a licensing outlet for royalty-free images from Fotolia and AudioMicro's audio.
The Seattle stock leader continues to develop products and services to address online publisher needs in ways that far exceed still-image licensing.
Corbis now represents archival material from the
National Geographic--a collection that dates back to 1900. The company has announced a new partnership with the National Geographic Society.
Founder of ImagesBazaar.com Sandeep Maheshwari has won the 2010 Star Youth Achiever Award from the Global Youth Marketing Forum, which honors achievements in youth-centric marketing, advertising and branding.
Getty Images now distributes high-definition footage by GreenScreen Animals. The Los Angeles-based company produces motion stock of trained animals shot against a green screen.
PicScout and PhotoShelter have announced an agreement under which the work of PhotoShelter photographers will be included in PicScout's Image Index, Registry and Connection platform. This offers some 50,000 individual PhotoShelter users access to the same PicScout technology used by major agencies to track uses of their images.
Stock industry mainstay Ellen Boughn has penned a book that offers a perspective into microstock that is informed by 30 years of traditional experience. Though
Microstock Money Shots targets primarily the photo enthusiast, it may help traditional photographers evaluate the creative differences between micro and macro.
Corbis has revised how its Web site handles image pricing by introducing a new rights-managed calculator. The new calculator presents image pricing on one grid, where usage details such as image size and placement are easily adjustable.