New York-based digital art site Zymmetrical has added a new search option. It allows users to find images with a designated area of blank or clutter-free space for adding text, logos and other layout elements. Founder and CEO Keith Tuomi said tthis Freerange feature, in combination with tools like Zymmetrical's color picker, helps buyers who know what they want find it faster.
Those who feel microstock businesses are ruining the industry are sure to be outraged by a new, potentially even lower-priced image offering from British newcomer moodboard. The London-based company, owned by Mike Watson of Digital Vision fame, launched moodboard unlimited, a Web site that allows customers to set their own prices for royalty-free images.
Moodboard has just launched moodboard unlimited, which allows customers to set the price they will pay for an image. Any amount, no matter how low, will get them a 300 dpi file suitable for printing 8.5 inches x 11 inches.
The Picture Licensing Universal System Coalition, an industry-neutral nonprofit that aims to simplify and facilitate image-rights management, has elected five new directors to its board. They represent their industries' trade and nonprofit associations. The PLUS board unites all industries involved in image creation, distribution, use and preservation.
Previously a division of downunder celebrity-photo agency More Images, Keedup Ltd. is now a separate business entity. In addition to expanding its keywording operation, Keedup plans to introduce a range of new services targeted at stock-licensing companies.
Prediction: more revenue will be generated by the licensing of microstock than through the licensing of traditional single image RF (TRF) before the end of 2010.
a21, the owner of the ArtSelect, SuperStock and MediaMagnet brands, is deferring quarterly cash interest payments on $15.5 million Secured Convertible Term Notes. The cash will be used for short-term operational enhancements and strategic initiatives.
Photographers and stock agencies are polarized between those who favor traditional marketing methods and those who favor microstock. Each side can learn from the other.
Many of the worlds most experienced and successful stock photographers - ones with high six-figure annual revenues are considering putting some of their best quality images on microstock sites as a test. But they often find it difficult to get the microstock companies to accept them.