This edition includes: Trends To Watch; Corbis
Reports Growth; Jupiter Acquires Banana Stock;
Non-released At Getty; Getty Third Quarter 2005;
a21 Second Quarter Results; a21 Acquires Ingram
Publishing; Blend Seeks Photographers; Adobe Adds
4 Collections; Speight to Lead Masterfile Europe;
Digital Camera Focus Problems; PLUS Creates
Licensing Language and more.
This edition of Random Thoughts has short items on: Return-Per-Image Going Down At Getty; Imagestate Appoints Hart COO; Alamy To Place Copies Of Site In Multiple Locations; and Correction To Jiunlimited.com.
Jupitermedia has reported third quarter of 2005 revenues of $34.4 million compared to revenues of $15.8 million for the same period last year. Jupiter is estimating revenue of over $39 million for the final quarter of 2005 and revenue for the year of between $128 to $130 million.
This issue has stories on: Street Casting; Getty Model Release; Murphy Takes Over As Director of Development of Image Partners for Getty; More Production Shoots At Jupiter; Photographers Petition Supreme Court For Review Of Claim Against National Geographic; and Solicitor Swan Sets Up New Practice In UK
Medio Images recently sold its file of 35,000 images with a heavy concentration of Latino and travel images to Getty. Next month they will launch a new brand called Glow and expect to have over 20,000 images in their offering by early next year.
Looking ahead to 2006 there are two trends to watch. Distributors seem to moving - to acquire more imagery that they will wholly-own and to put more emphasis on working with production companies rather than individual contributors. This article explores these trends and has a number of recommendations for photographers.
Two Washington Post editorials discuss the pros and cons of the Google Digital Library initiative. Speaking for those in favor is Mary Sue Coleman, President of the University of Michigan and speaking for copyright protection is Nick Taylor, President of the Authors Guild headquartered in New York.
This group of releases includes: ASMP Foundation Welcomes Grant Applications; Digital Railroad Delivers Aggregated Photo Marketplace and Annouces their Alignment with PicScout to Add Image Rights Tracking Services; iStockphoto Surpasses Half-Million Member Milestone; Masterfile Establishes Direct Sales Operations in France; and Photographers Laforet, Frakes, and Ashburn Choose PhotoShelter as their Online Image Archive.
A21 has acquired Ingram, a UK-based provider with a file of approximately 100,000 images that are offered for licensing by subscription, as CD-ROM or as single-image RF. The vast majority of these images are not wholly owned and royalties are paid when they are downloaded.
Getty Images reported $184.5 million revenue for Q3 of 2005. Revenue grew 19.9 percent. Also information about the acquisitions of Media Images and Rubberball. And Klein outlines the company's expectations as a result of the removal of some 3rd Party suppliers.