Steve Kapsinow, Jupiterimages' community manager for StockXpert, has announced that the microstock's inventory will soon be offered through the company's traditional brand Photos.com.
While finding distributors for one's production has always been a key aspect of the CEPIC Congress, there was a greater sense of urgency this year. One producer, Alex Mares-Manton of Asia Images, reported that in two-and-one-half days at CEPIC he was able to sign contracts with 14 distributors and complete handshake deals with 46 others.
The Photobuyer's Handbook, written by longtime image-industry analyst, consultant and author Julian Jackson, is a 102-page e-book that provides an overview of the stock business, with an emphasis on photo research.
AOL Pictures is going the way of Yahoo! Photos. According to an internal memo that made its way onto the Internet last week, the company is shutting down the service alongside other products that have not gained sufficient traction or brought in enough money to offset operating costs.
Return-per-Image (RPI) may offer a false sense of return-on-investment. Photographers would be better advised to calculate return-per-shoot. Before microstock, stock distributors were clamoring for more RF, but demand has changed. At the recent CEPIC Congress, distributors were looking for RM collections. Photographers need to carefully determine which model is more advantageous for them.
Press syndication agency Barcroft Media has partnered with Daphne Barak, a longtime TV and press interviewer, whose work appears on TV and in leading newspapers worldwide.
PhotoShelter's Shoot! The Day, held last weekend, produced an estimated quarter of a million images; many will be available for licensing this week. The company believes it to be among the largest single-day contributions to stock photography in the history of the industry.
The American Society of Picture Professionals has released best-practice guidelines for locating copyright owners of photographic and visual art. Intended as a living document, the guidelines will be updates as new registries and technologies become available.
Alamy continued its steady revenue growth in the second quarter and was up almost 20% compared to Q2 2007. The company had gross sales in Q2 2008 of $8,520,000, up from $7,132,000 in Q2 2007.
A Toronto photographer made an interesting decision about his inheritance.
Jupitermedia's stock was selling for $1.43 per share on July 24, giving the company a market capitalization of $51.53 million. The stock was up 27% from a 52 week low of $1.13 on July 21, but that's not necessarily good news.
Toronto-based Idée Inc. has announced the addition of The European Pressphoto Agency, Matrix Photos, Capital Pictures and Feature Flash to the client roster of PixID, the image-monitoring service that helps owners track image use in print publications.
a21 has announced that it may soon have a new majority shareholder. The Florida-based publicly traded company has executed a non-binding Letter of Intent with Vermont-based Applejack Art Partners. If the agreement proceeds as outlined, Applejack will own the majority share of a21 stock.
Entertainment industry nonprofit California Copyright Conference has issued
a statement protesting the proposed U.S. orphan-works legislation.
Magazines' struggle with economic woes will hit photography even closer to home. Combined with increased migration to the Internet, a price raise will make magazines that much less appealing. It is not going to be pretty: They will have to reduce staff and eliminate positions. Photo-editor responsibilities will be passed to art directors and let go.
moodboard will launch moodboard 2.0 at PhotoPlus in October to add to its current three offerings: micro, premium and moodboard+. Moodboard was launched a year ago by Mike Watson and a number of other ex-Digital Vision senior staffers. Watson sold Digital Vision to Getty Images in 2005 for $165 million.
AOL has launched a new general consumer Web site Pixcetera to focus exclusively on high-end photography. Featuring content from the image industry's leaders, Pixcetera offers users the opportunity to browse, rate, share and comment on images organized in popular lifestyle categories.
California start-up GumGum, which aims to monetize images using a traffic-based licensing models, is seeking financing to further expand its business. First Round Capital is leading venture capitalists with $500,000; its partner Howard Morgan is joining the GumGum board. The company seeks to raise $1.2 million.