Fotolia has put out a call for video submissions. The company said the move is a response to overwhelming demand.
Citizen-photojournalism Web site Demotix hopes that the pull of the
Financial Times will make its new contest a success. The two British companies have partnered in a contest that invites users to capture "the real story of the credit crunch."
Denver-based Thought Equity Motion has launched the Research Store, which the company says is the largest online library of long-form footage available for licensing. The company has also updated its search technology, integrating user ability to search video content by spoken word.
In a recent PermissionTV survey of 400 senior marketing executives, 67% of respondents said identified video as the primary focus of this year's online marketing campaigns. Video is also expected to evolve in sophistication and interactivity.
Santa Monica-based GumGum, one of a handful of companies experimenting with use-based licensing of images online, has expanded its entertainment and celebrity offering with paparazzi imagery by Bauer-Griffin. GumGum co-founder and chief executive officer Ophir Tanz also told Selling Stock that the licensing platform "is experiencing tremendous growth" overall.
Though this week's inauguration of President Obama has resulted in a spike of newspaper sales, these are but a drop in a big, nearly empty bucket. Emerging studies demonstrate that 2008 was the year when news consumption on the Internet finally overtook print and newspaper ad-revenues plummeted.
The Compassionate Eye Foundation has announced that its collection of over 1,000 images has generated more than $250,000 for international aid. Distributed by Getty Images, CEF is the first organization to raise funds through stock-image licensing.
Barcelona-based age fotostock closed 2008 with 8.6 million images, which represents a 68% inventory increase since the previous year. Unlike those who say oversupply is the stock industry's biggest problem, age fotostock believes there is a direct relationship between the agency's inventory size and market share.