As struggling newspapers look for new sources of revenue, most are attempting to monetize their daily news content online. The Chicago Tribune is expanding on the same idea: the paper is digitizing its image archive and making it work-including as a stock-image asset.
Getty Images has launched Thinkstock as a royalty-free subscription product that represents content from the Getty, iStockphoto and Jupiterimages brands. In addition to monthly and annual subscriptions, the site will offer image packs based on total downloads.
This is an interview with Holger Mette, an Australian photographer who's been traveling the world for two years earning his living from a small portfolio of photos he distributes in the microstock market. We discuss travel, photography and microstock, with example photos and links to his microstock portfolios.
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Microstock Diaries - used with permission. All photos Copyright Holger Mette]
Together with the Guardian, Getty Images-owned iStockphoto is sponsoring Britain iS -- a competition that captures Britain in 2010. Photo categories range from best urban image to "good stock," as in best suited to stock imagery.
SpiderPic, a division of the Israel based company Ginipic, has launched a new service to help image buyers find the cheapest source for microstock images. This is accomplished by simultaneously searching across multiple sites for specific images.
Corbis has notified photographers with rights-managed images on Veer that the company will be moving all that imagery to the Corbis site in 2010 to more "strategically differentiate their two stock photography brands." The rights-managed imagery that has been placed on channel partner sites around the world will continue to be marketed through those sites.