Kickstarter Helps Fund Non-Profit Projects

By Jim Pickerell | 433 Words | Posted 11/30/2010 | Comments (1)
Have an idea for a photo project but short of money to get if off the ground? Try Kickstarter.

Getty Images Launches Contour Style

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 144 Words | Posted 11/30/2010 | Comments
Contour by Getty Images, the celebrity portraiture syndication division of Getty Images, has launched an editorial stock offering under the brand of Contour Style.

Schools Phase Out Textbooks

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 55 Words | Posted 11/29/2010 | Comments

Tablets: Will They Hurt the Newspaper Business?

By Jim Pickerell | 154 Words | Posted 11/29/2010 | Comments
James Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., recently told a media conference in Monaco that tablets will hurt the newspaper business.

Torrens Releases Microstock Agency Report

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 125 Words | Posted 11/29/2010 | Comments
Lee Torrens, the man behind popular blog Microstock Diaries, has put together a research report on microstock agencies.

Corbis, WHO Report on Urbanization

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 332 Words | Posted 11/24/2010 | Comments

Since 2007, more than half of the world’s population has lived in cities. By 2050, that number will reach 70%, say United Nations statisticians. Corbis’s latest trends report offers a stock-industry perspective on how this rapid, unplanned upsurge in the numbers of city dwellers has influenced today’s visual culture.

Are All Web Uses Equal?

By Jim Pickerell | 141 Words | Posted 11/24/2010 | Comments (1)

Should all Web usages be of equal value just because all the customer needs is approximately a 600 x 800 pixel file?

iStock Gets Stocky

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 75 Words | Posted 11/22/2010 | Comments

Skyworks Joins Footage.net

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 82 Words | Posted 11/22/2010 | Comments

Argentina’s Images Lover Joins THP

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 66 Words | Posted 11/22/2010 | Comments

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