Multiple trend observers have highlighted the growing lifestyle trend of long-term travel. Brought on by recession, the trend has college graduates and baby boomers that have had difficulty securing employment setting out for open-ended trips.
Sarasota-based royalty-free retailer MediaFocus has announced the addition of image credits to its stock-photo Web site.
Market value for most products depends on how they are used---the value the customer receives. The distinguishing factor is often between
renting and
buying a product: from DVDs to photo equipment, renting based on value received is a very common practice, which has been all but eroded in the photo industry with the proliferation of microstock.
Daum Communications, the largest Internet service provider in Korea, has integrated the PicApp image-licensing plugin into Tistory, a blog platform that services over 300,000 publishers and receives 159 million page views per month.
Flickr continues to be the testing ground for appropriate user practices when it comes to images. When
The New York Times' contributor Sonia Zjawinski wrote about her penchant for printing out images she finds on the photo-sharing Web site and using them as wall art, readers' reactions were far from favorable. Yet some of the rules for such image uses remain confusing.
Photopreneur, a blog dedicated to sharing money-making opportunities for photographers on the Web, has released
99 Ways to Make Money with Your Photos. The 340-page print book, which took over a year to produce, is billed as a comprehensive guide to making money with photography for both seasoned professionals looking to reinvent themselves and hobbyists that want to learn the basics of part-time stock production.
The recently launched Flickr Collection has entered the second phase of its marketing campaign, which Getty Images refers to as the social networking and creative inspiration experience.