Alamy has announced the launch of its live news service which provides a
stream of unique news, sport and entertainment photographs direct to
customers. For the first time, Alamy will push live news to its
customers via FTP minutes after the photographs were captured.
The first thing everyone wants to know about microstock is how much the average person earns licensing images at those prices. This story provides some statistics. The story also deals with the misconception that in order to have high earnings in microstock it is necessary to have a huge number of images in the collection.
Recently, a new stock agency asked if they should develop a pricing
strategy based on fixed prices, or prices based on how the images would
be used? Here are some things to think about.
Corbis Images (
www.corbisimages.com) has named Barak Ronen as Senior Vice President of Media Products. Ronen was formerly with Reuters and will be based in London. He will be responsible for the company’s Media product development and commercial strategy.
It is always interesting to hear what Jonathan Klein has to say. Recently he was interviewed by Tara Fuller, editor of American Express’
Open Forum, a pro business website designed to “power small business success.”
Getty Images plans to use "a handful" of 3D-dedicated photographers to cover secure next year's Olympic Games in London.
Many photographers believe they will make more sales for the best prices
if their images are represented by the biggest distributors. They may
make more sales, but definitely not for the best prices. For years the
biggest distributors have been seriously undercutting price – at least
in the education field. There is a big question whether increased volume
at low, dramatically discounted prices results in increased revenue
overall for creators. Here’s how and why.
Pond5 will be giving away coupons worth $10,000 of free stock media at the Frankfurt Book Fair (Hall 3.1, Booth A 118), Oct. 12 - 16, 2011. Pond5’s
online collection includes more than 800,000 royalty-free stock video clips (the largest archive on the web), along with millions of other assets, including stock photos, illustrations, music tracks, sound effects, and After Effects motion graphics projects.
StockFood, the world’s leading food image agency, introduces
living4media: a new picture agency specializing in home and living. The concept behind
www.living4media.com is to unite the most outstanding images produced by internationally renowned photographers and well-known niche agencies under one roof.
With the addition of over 32,000 images from Omni Photo Agency and 18,000 images from the British Library picture archives
Universal Imaging Group’s (UIG) educational image database has grown to nearly 3 million still images and 100,000 film clips. Both of these organizations will be continually adding additional images of art, history, culture and anthropology to the collection.