Two-year-old Pixmac is banking on its “rapid checkout and download”
without the necessity for customers to engage in a complex registration
process to help the company expand its customer base in North America.
Users of leading blogging platform WordPress can now use GueWolke’s
microstock photo plugin to search, purchase and insert iStockphoto images into their posts or Web pages from inside the WordPress interface.
Many rights-managed and traditional royalty-free production companies
are having trouble finding photographers willing to shoot for them. Many
of the photographers who were rights-managed and traditional
royalty-free stars five to ten years ago have given up shooting stock,
or at the very least dramatically cut the number of images they produce
and the amount they are willing to spend production.
Hamburg-based
Plainpicture
has announced new additions to its London sales and Hamburg creative
departments. It is difficult to say why some independent shops continue
to grow where others shutter, but the German boutique has been spreading
its wings over Europe and appears to be weathering the economic storm.
There is a reason why it is called “social” media and there are rules
that you should follow when it comes to employing “social media” to
market and brand yourself and your art. Every day I see small businesses
that are ruining their brand by abusing social media. Artists are no
different, as they are a “small business” too! Here are some quick rules
of social media that you should follow.
Unveiled on Monday, the redesign of the iStockphoto Web site
reflects more than a year of usability research and design. In addition
to a new look, the company has revamped the back-end technology with an
eye to launching other enhancements, including a new search interface,
before the end of the year.
One of the things rights-managed and traditional royalty-free
photographers tend to overlook is the average price per image licensed.
Photographers worry when their images are licensed for low prices. They
track their average royalty per image in file and the trends of their
monthly royalty check, but is a lower royalty check the result of fewer
images being licensed, a lower average price per license or both?
With more and more art galleries and art organizations using the internet and email as a way to receive and administer their art show entries, an artist needs to follow the rules more closely than ever. I see at least 30% of the artists every month who ignore the rules and prospectus requirements for a particular art competition. The artists will send in their entries in the wrong manner, incompletely or in the wrong form. Failure to follow the rules of an art call is the number one reason why artists fail to get into their share of art exhibitions and art shows.
One of the things RM and traditional RF photographers tend to overlook
is average price-per-image-licensed. Photographers worry when their
images are licensed for low prices. They track their average
royalty-per-image-in-file and the trends of their monthly royalty check.
But is a lower royalty check the result of fewer images being licensed,
a lower average price-per-license or both?.