Getty Images photographer Brent Stirton took home several honors from this year's Lucie Awards, including International Photographer of the Year.
Getty Images and Jupitermedia announced a stock-purchase agreement that transfers ownership of Jupiter's wholly owned subsidiary, online image-licensing business Jupiterimages Corp., to Getty Images. The aggregate price of the deal is $96 million in cash--somewhere between a third and a quarter of the numbers discussed when last year's deal between the two companies fell apart for undisclosed reasons.
Swiss agency sees need for additional low-cost content.
Seattle-based horticultural offering unites images and feature stories.
The Copyright Registry is a free online beta service, whose mission is to help creators claim, track and defend their copyright, while simultaneously helping users find the owners of creative works.
According to a survey of 175 chief marketing officers, budgets are shifting to interactive and digital marketing--at the expense of traditional spending.
As stock photographers face unprecedented competition in their own space, many are thinking of diversifying into other photography niches. However, earning a living as a photographer is becoming increasingly difficult in all segments of the industry.
InSight America, a documentary project of Magnum Photos, launched on the eve of the U.S. presidential election to chronicle what the photojournalism cooperative sees a critical moment in the country's history.
British editorial agency Rex Features announced a merger of its North American operations with the Los Angeles-based Berliner group of companies.
PhotoShelter has released Personal Archive 2.0. CEO Allen Murabayashi discusses new features and expresses support for Digital Railroad.
If it does not renegotiate terms, the Associated Press will face the largest client loss since its announcement of a new fee structure.
So says Digital Railroad shareholder and former vice president of marketing and sales Mark Ippolito on the heels of last Wednesday's announcement of the company's financial woes. On Wednesday, Digital Railroad notified its community that its recent attempts to obtain funding have not succeeded, and the company has initiated a cost-reduction process.
The troubled Florida company has announced that it has integrated the budget MediaMagnet offering into the SuperStock Web site. While the company says that the MediaMagnet brand continues to grow, its consolidation with a21 Group's flagship stock product suggests that the budget brand has failed to gain enough traction as a standalone product.
ImageSource.com boasts new look and technology.
When talking about microstock, most traditional stock photographers like to say, "You can never make money selling pictures for $1.00!" The data from
Selling Stock's recent survey and other available industry information tends to explode that myth.
Its founders describe IC Worldwide as "a union of Parisian and New York photographic thought."
In the tables included in Oct. 16 "Survey: Stock Income per Licensing Model," several columns were mislabeled due to formatting issues. The story was updated with correct data at 2:15PM EST.
In two separate cases, the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled this week that Google's creation and distribution of image thumbnails for the purposes of indexing online content violates copyright law.
Stock photography is licensed in several ways. Of 238 respondents to the recent
Selling Stock survey, 179 licensed some work as rights-managed, and 37 licensed under Getty Images' rights-ready model. Stock income reported was usually less than the respondents' total income, because many photographers earned some revenue from sources other than stock.
The first thing to consider when reviewing the results of the
Selling Stock income survey is the degree to which these figures represent the total community of individual stock-image producers.
Stock shooters who also do assignment work earn as much from it as from stock, but their average income from stock is much lower than the overall stock-revenue average. In addition, footage producers emerge as overall revenue winners.
The economic downturn is likely to hit traditional stock shooters hard. Advertising theory says that when sales go down, it is important to increase advertising spending in order to increase market share. Combined with the possibility of assignment budgets moving toward stock, some professional photographers hope that advertisers will buy more images. This is highly unlikely.
Selling Stock's self-employed photographer income survey accounts for close to $33 million in revenues generated by 238 respondents from 19 countries.