Getty Images' photographers won 19 awards in the 66th Annual Pictures of the Year International Competition, far and away the most awards amassed by any news agency. More surprising, however, is that Corbis beat Getty and most others by placing among the three agencies scoring the most World Press Photo prizes.
AudioMicro.com has added over 170 original scores by "Family Guy" composer Ron Jones, who continues scoring the popular television show during its eighth's season.
U.K.-based moodboard has launched
One, a 30-page quarterly digital magazine designed to promote the agency's offering.
How was 2008 compared to 2007? What are industry trends in the production and sale of stock images?
Selling Stock has launched
a survey to gather information on 2008 stock-licensing income and cost of doing business.
Selling Stock encourages every photographer, graphic designer and illustrator who licensed rights to images in 2008 to respond to the survey's nine simple questions. The survey will remain open until April 15, and
Selling Stock will publish an in-depth analysis of the results shortly thereafter.
An announcement from British industry consultancy Pepper Stark suggests that Jupiterimages' European operations have not escaped layoffs.
On Tuesday, iStockphoto experienced a phishing attack in its forums and through sitemail. This attack attempted to scam users into handing over their iStock usernames and passwords.
Artists in a Year of Recession: Impact on Jobs in 2008, a research study conducted by the Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for the Arts, says that recession is affecting America's artists, and photographers in particular, more significantly than most other professionals. Artists are unemployed at twice the rate of all professional workers and are becoming increasingly discouraged with future job prospects.
In 2008 on behalf of Selling-Stock we surveyed photographers, illustrators and graphic designers designed to provide useful data for all those who license rights to their images. This story provides detailed results of this survey.
According to the latest Corbis Creative IQ report, solo travel is the latest trend—and not just for singles, who have historically held the "solo-cation" monopoly. Solo travelers now account for nearly a third (27%) of all vacationers.
The latest version of LicenseStream from California-based ImageSpan claims to deliver one-click buying of digital via a search-engine result. The company said LicenseStream 2.0 enables its users to publish content directly to global search engines.
According to co-founder and chief executive officer Serban Enache, Dreamstime's user-base has grown by over 30% during the last 5 months. Enache, who thinks such growth is probably the highest in the industry, said: "[Our small-company clients] must be affected by the crisis more than high-end users budget-wise... Still, we see no sign of slowdown (records for sales, new members, received content)."
Selling Stock recently analyzed some iStockcharts data in an effort to assess iStockphoto’s revenues during the first two months of 2009 and predict the possible effects of recession on microstock. Though the original analysis suggested a decline in iStock sales, new information about iStockcharts makes this a questionable conclusion.
As expected, Getty Images will be cutting staff after finalizing its acquisition of Jupiterimages last week. However, the severity of the cuts remains unclear.
Thriving New York photographer, prolific stock shooter and Stock Artists Alliance president Shannon Fagan attended the first User Generated Content Conference and Expo in San Jose earlier this month. Fagan provided
Selling Stock with some of his key take-aways, offered here with additional commentary.
Thought Equity Motion has partnered with the National Collegiate Athletic Association to offer online publishers NCAA March Madness video programming, complete with classic Motown sound.