Getty Images has added another key sports representation deal to its
portfolio: the company has become the authorized photographic agency of
the Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
Sausalito-based
ImageSpan,
the creator of LicenseStream platform, has appointed a new chief
executive officer. Kurt Garbe succeeds ImageSpan founder Iain
Scholnick, who will continue serving as chief platform officer,
focusing on strategy and expanding products and partnerships.
U.K. stock-image company
Alamy
has announced plans to launch a 24/7 news feed service in May. The
service will first launch in beta, with a full product release coming
later in the year.
In the next few years, there will be two major trends in the education
business: There will be less demand for books as a teaching resource.
Electronic “learning objects” will be used to a much greater degree in
classroom and online instruction. Photographers
who agree that these changes will occur, and who supply images to those
producing materials for educational use, should begin to restructure
their businesses and produce content that will be in demand by this new
educational delivery system.
Getty Images has announced that it entered into an agreement to purchase Rex Features. The deal also includes Los Angeles-based Berliner Photography, which merged with Rex's North American operations in late 2008. Financial arrangements were not disclosed.
As methods of supplying educational information to students change and schools adopt more and more electronic tools and techniques, photographers not only need to revise their image production strategies, but also to examine the way they will charge for their services in the future.
LTU Technologies has announced the public release of its hosted application programming interface, LTU engine/ON demand 1.2. The company also launched the next version of iPhone application lookthatup.
Jim Pickerell has a long history in stock photography as a stock shooter, an agency owner, and an industry analyst. In this wide-ranging interview he shares his experience and insight on the future of stock photography.
The opportunity to interact with editors from publishing companies, picture researchers, stock agents and photographers at the American Society of Picture Professionals' Reinvention Weekend in Boston provided a clearer picture of where the business of producing images for publication is headed.
Jack Hollingsworth is continuing his business reinvention by collaborating with photo-sharing community Jalbum. Hollingsworth is producing a series of online photography tutorials.