Online image uses appear to be following the pattern established in traditional media. A recent Epsilon survey demonstrates that clients responsible for the highest traditional revenues---big corporations with million- and billion-dollar marketing budgets---prefer more proven, though often more costly social-media tools, such as email.
Stock photographers are constantly concerned with what to shoot. Everyone knows that people pictures tend to sell in greater volume than non-people pictures, but people doing what? Which concepts are in greatest demand? Information most helpful to answering such questions comes from microstock sites and is freely available to everyone.
U.S. banks sent almost twice as much direct mail in the third quarter of 2008 than during the second quarter. These 53 million direct-mail offers were also nearly twice the number sent last year--despite the critical state of financial markets.
Rights-managed collection of iconic imagery focuses on the Irish people.
The latest version of the Alamy contributor contract was published on Nov. 26 and reflects the recent change in the agency's commission structure.
The Guardian's Wendy Grossman takes a look at the tactics used by large stock agencies, such as Getty Images and Corbis, to pursue payment for unauthorized image uses.
Coventry, U.K.-based royalty-free library Agodia Images says its strategy is to keep pricing as simple as possible. To do this, each image is licensed at a single price point, regardless of file size or usage-specific criteria.
The microstock business was originally created by graphic designers, who thought photography was too expensive. Now, the same type of crowdsourcing that has hurt photographers is hurting professional designers.
Glenn Ruga, founder and publisher of photo-exhibit Web site SocialDocumentary.net, likened the destruction of images stored on Digital Railroad's servers to the demolition of the original Penn Station building in New York. But was anything actually destroyed?
Organized by the German Association of Press and Picture Agencies and Archives, the PICTA 2009 Picture Agency Fair will again be held in Hamburg, from Mar. 26 to 28.