Acquired by microstock subscription leader Shutterstock in September 2009, single-image micro retailer BigStockPhoto has undergone substantial surgery. Rebranded as simply Bigstock, the Web site has relaunched with a new look and upgraded back end.
Reinvention Weekend, organized by the American Society of Picture Professionals and the Picture Archive Council of America, will be keynoted by Brian Storm of MediaStorm. Joining him in Boston on April 15 through 18 will be a lineup of photography and marketing notables.
New Zealand metadata specialist Keedup says txtese -- or chatspeak, txtspk, txtk and numerous other slang abbreviations that denote the language used to compose text messages -- is the language to keep in mind as the general population increasingly migrates routine tasks to mobile devices.
The stock photo industry needs a change in strategy so all images can
be made available for all uses at a reasonable price based on the value
the customer will receive from using the image. We need to get away
from the whole idea of rights-managed and royalty-free and recognize
that, in all cases, the price is based on use. Rights-managed licensing has always been much more about pricing
based on use rather than on managing rights. The vast majority of
rights-managed customers are not concerned with rights control or
exclusivity.
CEPIC has begun to outline events for the upcoming Dublin congress, scheduled for early June.
FootageBank HD is the new exclusive footage representative for Playback Technologies' stock library, which includes news stories, cartoons, travel segments, financial news graphics, environmental news and contemporary Los Angeles-area day and night-time lapse.
Microstock keywording, retouching, uploading and analytics platform LookStat has released a free guide to microstock, designed specifically for rights-managed and royalty-free stock photographers. The guide contains details on how to establish accounts, submission requirements and profiles of the top microstock agencies.
On Thursday, the Picture Archive Council of America launched a proprietary tool to provide the industry with a free stock-image meta-search engine: pacaSearch.
In response to "Stock Photo Lottery," Bill Bachmann said: "I don't know where you get the idea that 1% of images are sold are RM. I think you are pulling that figure out of a hat."
Alamy sales for 2009 were $22,864,000, down 27% from 2008. Fourth-quarter sales were down less than 2% compared to the previous quarter but 14% compared to the fourth quarter of 2008. British Pound and Euro sales were up slightly compared to the third quarter of 2009, but U.S. dollar sales were down 12% compared to Q3 2009 and 22% compared to Q4 2008.
Mass.-based motion content seller is first to announce full XML integration with Google.
If you're a photographer shooting fashion, products or doing other commercial work for brochures or print ads you will often need access to good locations. Getting "access" to good locations generally requires considerable effort and often fee payments. This story provides some hints on how to solve the access problem.
Fotolia founder and chief executive officer Oleg Tscheltzoff is also the CEO of Flixtime, a new free Web site that allows users to create their own custom production-quality videos. In addition to providing tools to turn users' own images, clips and text into 60-second videos, Flixtime is also a licensing outlet for royalty-free images from Fotolia and AudioMicro's audio.
The Seattle stock leader continues to develop products and services to address online publisher needs in ways that far exceed still-image licensing.
Katy von Brandenfels, of BigCheesePhoto won €100 our May/June
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Corbis now represents archival material from the
National Geographic--a collection that dates back to 1900. The company has announced a new partnership with the National Geographic Society.
Usage-based pricing is not going away; there will always be some demand for exclusive uses, for which customers will be willing to pay significant amounts of money. The question is how much and whether or not it is wise for most photographers to chase these customers.
Founder of ImagesBazaar.com Sandeep Maheshwari has won the 2010 Star Youth Achiever Award from the Global Youth Marketing Forum, which honors achievements in youth-centric marketing, advertising and branding.
Getty Images now distributes high-definition footage by GreenScreen Animals. The Los Angeles-based company produces motion stock of trained animals shot against a green screen.