A new video depicting several Corbis executives is now available on YouTube.
Dreamstime has partnered with Panama-based Other Images, a stock distributor that covers Central and South America and the Caribbean. Other Images has created a new branded Web site, which is dedicated exclusively to Dreamstime content and is searchable in Spanish, the second most spoken language in the world, and Portugese.
The Alamy contributor event, held on Nov. 7, included a report by CEO James West on the company's plans for 2009 and a question-and-answer session that lasted more than two hours.
George Sinclair has launched a new business: Universal Images Group Ltd. The company's primary focus will be to assist clients of Sinclair's other business, The Virtual Picture Desk, in marketing their editorial imagery through third-party channels.
SuperStock contributors report that no one has received royalty checks for the month of November and that sales reports have been late the last couple months. a21 Group's stock brand has not reported third quarter sales, and there are indications that other developments are afoot.
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.
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.
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.
The following are concept words that customers often use to find images. When keywording an image add as many concepts as are appropriate to the keyword list. If after searching the concept list you cannot find any words that that fit your image there is a good chance your images will not be a frequent seller. When planning shoots try to take pictures that will illustrate some of these concepts.
Some photo subjects are in high demand, others aren't. But, shooting just the concepts that are in hightest demand may be a losing proposition because everyone else is shooting the same thing. This chart list some keywords or tags that are frequently requested. The chart was generated by searching iStockphoto for certain words. It shows the total number of downloads of the best selling image in each category as of the above date. It also lists the total images in the collection with the particular keyword or tag. The list is in ascending order by download.