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September 2006 Selling Stock

By Jim Pickerell | 150 Words | Posted 9/1/2006 | Comments

This issue contains the following stories: Micro Payment; Who Uses iStockphoto?; $.25 Per Download Adds Up????; Getty Has Record Revenue Q2 2006; Where Does Riser Fit?; Alamy Reports Record Growth In Supply; Footage Market; More On Footage; Online Ad Spending Up

Rights-Ready Pricing

By Jim Pickerell | 789 Words | Posted 8/29/2006 | Comments

Getty has launched its Riser brand that offers Rights-Ready (RR) pricing. The price for image use in Printed Marketing Material or Product/Packaging is $800. So far there are 64,770 images available, but it looks like this includes a lot of similars. For example there are 16 shots of a woman sitting at a desk that differ only in slight variations of expression.

Press Releases 24

By Jim Pickerell | 1490 Words | Posted 8/25/2006 | Comments

Discovery Selects Getty Images To Distribute Footage And Photography, Lonely Planet And Navman Create Interactive Online Travel Guide, Photolibrary Acquires ABPL Food File, TemplateMonster.com Partners With Fotolia.com, Adobe Adds Collections, Corbis Appoints Co-Directors Of Outline, Marcus Benkwitz Becomes New Plainpicture Partner

Riser Again

By Jim Pickerell | 599 Words | Posted 8/24/2006 | Comments

Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) has written its membership expressing concerns about Getty's plans to launch its Rights-Ready collection called Riser. The issues center around the right of Getty to make images available through Riser without specific photographer approval, and the perpetual duration of licenses.

a21 2006 Six Months Results

By Jim Pickerell | 326 Words | Posted 8/15/2006 | Comments

a21, Inc. has reported $4,511,000 in revenues for Q2 2006, but only $3,023,000 of that was for the stock photo side of the business. ArtSelect which provides wall art for homes and businesses provided $1,488,000 in revenue in less that a month and a half. ArtSelect earned approximately $12 million in 2005 and would be expected to earn about $3 million in a full quarter, equal to what the stock photo side of the business generates.

Where Does Riser Fit?

By Jim Pickerell | 1287 Words | Posted 8/11/2006 | Comments

Industry observers are intrigued by the Getty Images announcement of it's new "Rights-Ready" (RR) licensing model and are anxious for more information so they can determine exactly where it fits and what impact it will have on the industry. The new collection of images available for this type of licensing will be called Riser.

Jupitermedia Announces Q2 2006 Results

By Jim Pickerell | 2030 Words | Posted 8/10/2006 | Comments

Jupitermedia has reported revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2006 of $35 million up from $33.9 million in the previous quarter and compared to revenues of $29.1 million for the same period last year. The image division revenues were up only $242,000 from the previous quarter. The company's stock ended the day after the announcement at $6.59, down almost 30%.

History of the Stock Photo Industry

By Jim Pickerell | 7917 Words | Posted 8/7/2006 | Comments

This is a brief history of stock photography examining how it started and how it got to where it is today. I have tried to chronicle the key events and changes that have taken place in the last 80 years, in hopes that understanding the past will enable us to avoid repeating some of the same mistakes in the future.

Random Thoughts 123

By Jim Pickerell | 1157 Words | Posted 8/2/2006 | Comments

This edition has short items on: iStockphoto Moves to Sell Footage -- Seeks Contributors; Corbis Files Lawsuit Against TemplateMonster and Ultravetex.com; Getty And Search Marketing; Getty Announces New Photographer's Choice Procedures; Redux Pictures To Represent New York Times Stock Images and Display Advertising On Web.

Press Releases 23

By Jim Pickerell | 1533 Words | Posted 8/2/2006 | Comments

This edition contains stories on: Getty Images Announces New 'Rights-Ready' Licensing Model, Index Provides Images For Cell Phone Wallpaper, CEPIC And BVPA Collaborate On IPTC Metadata Standards, ScienceFaction.net Completes Web Site.

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.