a21 has announced that the bankruptcy court of Jacksonville, Fla., has set the dates for bid submissions and asset auction.
The Annenberg Foundation has made a $75,000 grant to host the 2009 Pictures of the Year International, a photojournalism competition now in its 66th year.
Corbis has invited professionals and students to enter the competition for its Creativity for Social Justice Award and Scholarship, which is part of the annual Art Director's Club honors. The cash prizes awarded for the past two years have been cut in half in both categories.
The question for stock photographers is how to maximize revenue. Is RM better then RF? Is traditional RF better then Microstock and what about Subscriptions? This article provides some thinking on this subject.
Two major newspapers are about to drastically reduce circulation. Such trends are strong indicators of what many believe will happen with magazines and other information suppliers in the not too distant future.
Contrary to its previous prediction of a 5.5% decline in U.S. ad revenues, Barclays Capital now expects advertising to dip significantly below the levels of the 1991 and 2001 recessions.
Several stock photographers have shared their strategies to cope with the rapidly changed business environment. Cost cutting and diversifying top the list.
iStockphoto has announced its plans for next year, including new image pricing. While previous adjustments largely raised the cost of the credits while keeping the entire collection at the same price point, the 2009 strategy is markedly different and includes a higher priced collection of exclusive images.
In a time of economic uncertainty and political change, optimism is paramount and no other color expresses hope and reassurance more than yellow.
According to PicApp, blogger appetite for all things celebrity continues growing, and premium paparazzi content from Pacific Coast News answers this need.
Cambridge-based technology company Imense has launched Picturedesk, a stock-image search engine that provides access to 30 stock brands. In addition to metadata, the search engine uses image-recognition technology to improve relevance of search results.
One stock-photography mystery is why advertisers have calculated that an eyeball looking at a Web site is only worth about one-tenth to one-fifteenth of an eyeball looking at a printed publication. This is important because fees paid to content creators are based to a large extent on what advertisers are willing to pay for ads.
The grim outcome of Greenberg vs. The National Geographic Society should be of deep concern to every photographer who believes copyright offers legal protection. Rather, this case teaches us two things: the law is not always fair or equitable, and those who have deeper pockets tend to win.
Alamy's growth slowed in the third quarter of 2008, with gross sales of $8,186,000, up 9% compared to the same quarter in 2007 but down about 4% from the second-quarter high of $8,520,000. The company said the effects of the Sterling weakening against the Dollar exaggerated the decline.
Slik offers images of modern and historical China.
Big Stage Entertainment and Splash News are collaborating to allow consumers to insert their faces into photos featuring Hollywood stars.
Live for only a couple of days and yet to be officially announced, the new interface of the Canadian agency represents a paradigm shift—if not a giant leap—in stock-image search.
An 11-year saga of Greenberg v. National Geographic Society has concluded with the Supreme Court refusing to hear photographer Jerry Greenberg's latest appeal. The two rulings that now set the legal precedent for reproducing copyrighted freelancer content will be the July 2008 decision of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and an earlier Supreme Court decision in Tasini v. The New York Times.
Getty Images has added exclusive images by Patrick Hoelck, Kurt Iswarienko, Tyler Shields and Yu Tsai to its celebrity portraiture brand Contour. The company also announced the acquisition of Britain's Redferns music picture library, further expanding its celebrity and entertainment offering.