Johnér Enters Finland, Norway

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 95 Words | Posted 4/16/2009 | Comments

2008 Market Size: Editorial Image Revenues

By Jim Pickerell | 174 Words | Posted 4/15/2009 | Comments
How does the total 2008 editorial revenue of $700 million break down among breaking news, editorial features and books? And what portion of this revenue goes to large editorial suppliers operating outside the stock industry?

2008 Market Size: Revenues by Image Type

By Jim Pickerell | 655 Words | Posted 4/15/2009 | Comments
Commercial stock accounts for 56% of total revenues generated by licensing still images. Editorial, specifically celebrity imagery, is the one traditional growth segment, while the sales of microstock and subscription products now nearly equal revenues generated by traditional royalty-free images.

Prince Responds to Copyright Lawsuit

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 131 Words | Posted 4/14/2009 | Comments
Appropriation artist Richard Prince has responded to a suit filed by French photographer Patrick Cariou with, unsurprisingly, a fair-use defense.

Tips Images USA to Launch at Picturehouse Chicago

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 66 Words | Posted 4/14/2009 | Comments

2008 Market Size: Overview

By Jim Pickerell | 654 Words | Posted 4/14/2009 | Comments (1)
Selling Stock has updated its estimates of the gross revenue generated worldwide by the stock photo industry in 2008. We have also estimated the number of images licensed under rights-managed, royalty-free and microstock models and segmented global sales by geographic region.

Photononstop Acquires, Relaunches French Portal

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 74 Words | Posted 4/13/2009 | Comments

Green Still Strong But Consumers Skeptical

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 212 Words | Posted 4/13/2009 | Comments
Over three quarters (77%) of consumers agree that they can make a positive difference by purchasing from socially or environmentally responsible companies, says the new BBMG Conscious Consumer Report: Redefining Value in a New Economy. However, 23% of consumers they have "no way of knowing" if a product is actually green or does what it claims.

BSIP Launches RF Collection

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 42 Words | Posted 4/13/2009 | Comments

Size Of Market In 2009

By Jim Pickerell | 2533 Words | Posted 4/13/2009 | Comments
I believe that worldwide customers pay a combined total of about $1.8 billion for still stock images and illustration annually. There has been virtually no growth in this market in the last few of years. In the fall of 2008 Corbis CEO Gary Shenk estimated that total 2007 revenue for the industry was $2.3 billion and predicted that it will decline to $2.2 billion by 2012.

About Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has a broad range of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, contact negotiations and recruiting in the photography, graphic design and publishing industries. In addition to his long experience at the Workbook and Workbookstock, Masterson owned and was creative director of his own graphic design firm for several years.

Masterson has been a speaker or panelist at industry events such as Seybold, PhotoPlus Expo, Visual Connections and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) national conference. He is currently the national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He also serves on the board of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in his Los Angeles community. He chaired the marketing committee for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation advocacy group, for many years.

He currently heads Masterson Consulting, working on projects ranging from business development for creative companies and sourcing talent for them to promoting and marketing industry events as well as providing resume and professional profile services for job-seekers. He can be reached at zvpunryqznfgrefba@tznvy.pbz.