Traditionally, direct mail brochures and catalogs have been among the biggest users of stock and assignment photography. Look for that market to continue to decline due to postage costs and general ineffectiveness of this type of marketing.
U.K.-based Photoshot continues growth through acquisition, apparently undeterred by the fate of the last celestial body to travel that road.
Cherry, Veer's new illustration collection, augments the company's offering with hand-crafted style.
"Today, the marketplace is MySpace, YouTube and Google's search engine. You should be putting your content in front of that transactional velocity," says Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer and president of ImageSpan. The 5-year-old Sausalito, Calif., company offers transactional support for online content licensing and has just added a tracking service that monitors usage of such content.
Digital-photography revenue, including that of traditional and micro-payment stock, is expected to grow 54% by 2013. What share of this total will be coming from still stock?
The stock industry is unlikely to benefit from newspapers' record-breaking readership and an increase in the number and prominence of images used online and off.
It appears that the Digital Railroad saga has come to an end, with the mystery buyer no longer interested in acquiring its assets.
Jupitermedia posts the lowest third-quarter results since 2004.
Romania-born microstock has surpassed 1 million buyers, making it the second leading agency in the number of customers, according to its management.
Hundreds of thousands of LCN clients get in-perpetuity discounts on Fotolia images.