Italian Web company Starring has launched an English-language hosting service to showcase and promoted the work of European photographers, photographerspro.eu.
Munich specialty agency StockFood is sponsoring the FAB Futures Award 2008, a new category in the 10th International Food and Beverage Creative Excellence Awards.
The technology segment devoted to visual search is continuing its development on both ends of the spectrum. On one side are the businesses that want to monetize the public's thirst for imagery, fueled by the proliferation of social media, photo-sharing and Web 2.0-style communities. On the other, content owners and publishers, whose copyright-enforcement concerns are growing at a corresponding pace.
Masterfile has announced that it restructured its marketing operations and established a department for product development and innovation. Picture-agency president Steve Pigeon tells Selling Stock that this reorganization will make operations more efficient, as well as allow key executives to focus on “some very cool product development initiatives.â€
Jupitermedia’s Q3 2007 revenues were $34.766 million, up from $33.784 million in the same period last year and from $34.7 million in Q2 2007. Revenues for the Online Images division, which represents 77% of the company’s total business, were $26.824 million, up from $26.177 million in the same quarter last year, but down from $27.383 million in the previous quarter. The decrease was primarily due to lower revenues from third party distributors. Total revenues for the first 9 months of 2007 were up $1.5 million from the first 9 months in the previous year.
In July Mike Watson launched moodboard.com and introduced a new usage-based pricing strategy for the high end RF images offered by his agency. These images are available under the brand name moodboard+. moodboard has just announced that they have licensed an RF image for non-exclusive usage for a fee of over $1,000, a price they believe is a new record for a non-exclusive sale of an RF image.
Microstock sellers insist they are focused on developing an entirely new market -- the SOHO (small office, home office) buyer -- that has been, for the most part, ignored by traditional sellers who charge much more for image use than SOHO buyers can afford. There is no question that the vast majority of microstock customers fit this category.