This story examines statistics relative to the Footage Market and explores the likelihood of it becoming a major opportunity for stock photographers in the near future.
This edition contains stories on: Alamy Testing Improved Search Engine; Stock Artists Alliance Delivers a "Metadata Manifesto";
PACA Membership Directory in Print; Shutterstock Hits 850,000 Images; Corbis Outline Team Signs 8 New Portraiture Photographers; a21 subsidiary ArtSelect enters Into Joint Marketing Agreement with Redcats U.S.A.; Picturehouse Announces Date for New York 2006
This issue contains the following stories: Reflections on CEPIC; The Rise Of Crowdsourcing; JupiterMedia Q1 2006 Results; Alamy Reports Growth In Supply; Getty Acquires Italian Agent; Jupiter Buys Workbookstock; ImageState Splits Up; A21 Raises Necessary Capital; A21 Acquires Artselect; Upheaval At Superstock; Alamy Adds Metdata; Transtock's New Licensing Model; Photo Subscription Services; Dark Matter; Corbis Appoints New CCO
This edition contains the following short items: Heimsch Wins CEPIC Contest; Upheaval At Superstock; To Be Or Not To Be -- A Getty Images Partner; JupiterImages Upgrades Site; Unauthorized Use Dilemma; Laufenberg Joins Getty Images and Cannibalization
Corbis recently appointed Ross Sutherland to a new position of Chief Creative Officer. Sutherland has almost 40 years of experience at some of the world's leading advertising agencies including Ogilvy & Mather and Young & Rubicam.
This edition contains stories on: Getty Showcasing New Photographers, Alamy Adds Metadata To Digital Image Files, Corbis Launches Corbis Outline@Home, Pacific Stock Releases New "Wiki Shots" RF Collection, ASMP & AIA Release New Guidelines for Commissioning Architectural Images, MaXx Images Announces AGE Fotostock Representation
The most important event on the stock industry calendar is the annual CEPIC Congress, held this year early in June in Biarritz, France. This year there were almost 800 attendees from 375 stock photo organization and 51 countries. This story outlines some of things I learned at the conference.
a21, Inc. has announced that Haim Ariav, a21's Chief Creative Officer and the Chief Creative Officer and President of a21's subsidiary SuperStock no longer remains with the Company. Mr. Ariav has also resigned from the Board of Directors of a21.
Jupiterimages has acquired all the shares of Workbook Inc. from Alexis Scott giving it control of workbookstock.com. Simultaneously, Alexis Scott purchased back from Jupiterimages the print directories, Workbook.com and all the other products that help generate assignments for photographers and illustrators.
This story provides some statistics on 18 Subscription web sites that have a combined total of over 10 million images. Six million of these are clip art leaving over 4 million photos and illustration. Eight of these sites are owned by Jupitermedia.