Maximizing Revenue: RM or RF?

By Jim Pickerell | 741 Words | Posted 7/28/2008 | Comments (2)
Return-per-Image (RPI) may offer a false sense of return-on-investment. Photographers would be better advised to calculate return-per-shoot. Before microstock, stock distributors were clamoring for more RF, but demand has changed. At the recent CEPIC Congress, distributors were looking for RM collections. Photographers need to carefully determine which model is more advantageous for them.

Carroll to Keynote PACA Conference

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 93 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments

MyLoupe.com Grows to 400,000 Images

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 65 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments

Barcroft Media Partners With Daphne Barak

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 136 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments
Press syndication agency Barcroft Media has partnered with Daphne Barak, a longtime TV and press interviewer, whose work appears on TV and in leading newspapers worldwide.

Shoot! The Day Generates 250,000 Images

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 198 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments
PhotoShelter's Shoot! The Day, held last weekend, produced an estimated quarter of a million images; many will be available for licensing this week. The company believes it to be among the largest single-day contributions to stock photography in the history of the industry.

ASPP: Guidelines for Locating Copyright Owners of Art

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 169 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments
The American Society of Picture Professionals has released best-practice guidelines for locating copyright owners of photographic and visual art. Intended as a living document, the guidelines will be updates as new registries and technologies become available.

Alamy Q2 2008 Results

By Jim Pickerell | 528 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments
Alamy continued its steady revenue growth in the second quarter and was up almost 20% compared to Q2 2007. The company had gross sales in Q2 2008 of $8,520,000, up from $7,132,000 in Q2 2007.

Correction: Jupiter Debt

By Jim Pickerell | 24 Words | Posted 7/25/2008 | Comments

Photographer's Take On Inheritance

By Jim Pickerell | 181 Words | Posted 7/24/2008 | Comments
A Toronto photographer made an interesting decision about his inheritance.

Will Jupiter Be Sold?

By Jim Pickerell | 147 Words | Posted 7/24/2008 | Comments (1)
Jupitermedia's stock was selling for $1.43 per share on July 24, giving the company a market capitalization of $51.53 million. The stock was up 27% from a 52 week low of $1.13 on July 21, but that's not necessarily good news.

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.