In an announcement that surprised those who remember LIFE magazine’s recently publicized plan to relaunch Life.com in partnership with Getty Images, Time Inc. said it is putting over 10 million images online using Google. Millions of images, 97% of which have never been seen by the public, have already been digitized and made available on Google's new image-hosting service.
The Photolibrary Group has added the Red Cover collection to some 300 still and motion brands already represented in its inventory over 4 million images and 250,000 footage clips. Photolibrary CEO Glenn Parker says this makes the Australian agency the only viable aggregator of niche and generalist stock photography.
Agreement encompasses the Corbis RF, Zefa, InsideOut Pix, Image100 and ImageShop brands.
Dubai-based agency offers wholly owned rights-managed content.
Agency cites increasing demand for custom image content.
Contrary to prevailing doom-and-gloom predictions for the advertising industry, a recent survey by the Association of National Advertisers says 68% of advertisers will either increase spending or retain current levels during the next 12 months. The survey results also highlight the trend toward social networks and other Web-based marketing activities, adding weight to predictions of continuous growth in uses of images online.
Alamy has clarified a few aspects of its arrangement with the Copyright Clearance Center to create the new ReadyImages service that was announced yesterday. The company's Rachel Wakefield said the ReadyImages offering is quite different from CCC's past photo-industry activities, which concerned many photographers.
Photolibrary has provided
Selling Stock with a list of 49 Index Stock photographers for whom the company has no contact information. All of them are owed money from sales made by Index Stock prior to Photolibrary acquiring the company.
Fotosearch, a longtime stock distributor based in Wioming, has acquired micro-payment business Can Stock Photo for an undisclosed sum. The microstock Web site was founded in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2004 by then-college student Duncan Enman, who will remain with the company.
U.K.-based Alamy has partnered with the Copyright Clearance Center, a 30-year-old American company that specializes in rights licensing and clearance, to offer large companies images for internal use on a subscription basis.
Jupitermedia has adjusted previously reported third-quarter earnings by reporting a non-cash impairment charge to goodwill in the amount of $40 million, in connection with the recently announced agreement to sell the company's images business to Getty Images. Quarterly revenues are down compared to both the previous quarter and same period of last year. There is also a sharp decline in sales through distributors.
Image suppliers are encouraged to do the same.
BrightQube has updated its Web site with new tools and a redesigned home page, which no longer includes the mosaic interface.
Diablo Management expects that Digital Railroad's main creditor will take possession of the physical servers that house photographer archives and software, wipe them clean and put them up for auction.
Traditional stock photographers are often stymied by microstock's acceptance and upload requirements, which are very different from those of traditional agencies. The Yuri Arcurs Distribution Network may offer some of the elite and very productive traditional people-and-lifestyle shooters a way of breaking into the microstock market.
Traditionally, direct mail brochures and catalogs have been among the biggest users of stock and assignment photography. Look for that market to continue to decline due to postage costs and general ineffectiveness of this type of marketing.
U.K.-based Photoshot continues growth through acquisition, apparently undeterred by the fate of the last celestial body to travel that road.
Cherry, Veer's new illustration collection, augments the company's offering with hand-crafted style.
"Today, the marketplace is MySpace, YouTube and Google's search engine. You should be putting your content in front of that transactional velocity," says Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer and president of ImageSpan. The 5-year-old Sausalito, Calif., company offers transactional support for online content licensing and has just added a tracking service that monitors usage of such content.
Digital-photography revenue, including that of traditional and micro-payment stock, is expected to grow 54% by 2013. What share of this total will be coming from still stock?
The stock industry is unlikely to benefit from newspapers' record-breaking readership and an increase in the number and prominence of images used online and off.
It appears that the Digital Railroad saga has come to an end, with the mystery buyer no longer interested in acquiring its assets.
Jupitermedia posts the lowest third-quarter results since 2004.
Romania-born microstock has surpassed 1 million buyers, making it the second leading agency in the number of customers, according to its management.
Hundreds of thousands of LCN clients get in-perpetuity discounts on Fotolia images.