PicScout has announced that 13 more image producers and companies have joined its recently launched Image Index Registry Connection.
Photographer Zee Wendell and art director Tara D'Ambrosia have launched Weestock Images, a children's stock photography agency, out of Newport Beach, Calif. According to the duo, Weestock fills a market gap.
The New York-based microstock is financing the construction of 12 wells in northern Ethiopian villages.
Those that have traditionally made their living licensing stills to print educational and textbook publishers should take heed: there is ample evidence that predictions of such uses giving way to digital, often video-based options are true. ITN Source and its Education Clip Library just announced a deal with Archipelago Learning to provide video content for Archipelago's Study Island-an online standards-based assessment, instruction, practice, and test preparation program for the U.S. K-12 educational market.
Previous methods of image keywording almost always involved downloading an image from a server, adding metadata and reuploading it back. In cases of outsourcing images to keywording companies, this involved huge volumes of data traveling back and forth. Piksee, a new software package from New Zealand metadata company Keedup, eliminates the loss of time associated with data transfer by sampling images off a server and adding keywords and other information without moving images themselves.
WoodWing Software of The Netherlands and London-based Imprezzeo have announced an agreement to incorporate Imprezzeo's visual search technology into WoodWing's Content Station, an online publishing tool for enterprise-level content producers.
ITN Source has announced an archive footage deal with Shanghai Media Group, China's largest commercial broadcaster. This follows an earlier agreement with China's largest foreign education publisher Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Following the release of the court-mandated revision to the Google Books Settlement, CEPIC -- formerly known as the Coordination of European Picture Agencies and just rebranded as Centre of the Picture Industry, complete with a new logo -- has renewed its objections to the precedent-setting agreement.
A recent study by U.K. research firm Futuresource sheds light on the numbers of potential entrants into the online stock image and video licensing market: 85% of survey respondents upload stills and video to the Internet. The 16 to 34-year-old group accounts for the most uploads.