In his recent year-end conference call to investors, Getty Images CEO, Jonathan Klein said, "I can categorically state that the success of [the $49 web use product] has exceeded our expectations. We are finding thousands of new customers for Getty Images."
In his year-end conference call to investors, Getty Images CEO, Jonathan Klein said, "We are licensing fewer images for print advertising, brochures, junk mail and print collateral." This is very significant because these uses have always been the bread and butter of stock photography.
"Green" has become a ubiquitous sales tool, according to Denise Waggoner, vice president of creative research at Getty Images. This exploitation of the global environmental conscience is the theme of the second edition of Getty's "What Makes A Picture" Report.
According to the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) Photolibrary has begun moving to contact, and pay contributors the outstanding debts the company assumed when it purchased Index Stock in October 2006.
As of April 1, Adobe is discontinuing operations of its 3-year-old stock-photo service. Though Adobe Stock Photos was supposed to make designers' lives easier, it did not.
Visual content-monitoring company PicScout will demonstrate PicApp, an ad-supported image-licensing platform, during this week's Israel Web Tour 2008 Showcase. Creative and editorial imagery from Getty Images will be highlighted.
Earlier this month, the Library of Congress launched a pilot project to improve access to some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials in its collection. The LoC has partnered with Flickr, tapping into its vast user community to crowd-source image keywording.
In Q4 2007, Getty Images reversed the trend of the first three quarters and showed revenue increases in every category of its business.
Getty Images reported revenue of $218.1 million for Q4 2007, up from $208.9 in Q3 and a 7% increase from $203.5 in Q4 2006. All lines of business were up for the quarter. Particularly notable was the improvement in RM and RF sales. However, Net profit for Q4 fell to $28.5 million.
This week the Associated Press jump into election-dedicated media coverage with the launch of The Measure of a Nation. The yearlong multimedia project is billed as an unusual, regularly updated guide to the American presidency.
The first thing we need to recognize when talking about RM's future is that in nearly all cases, RM images are used in some type of printed product. Thus, the future of print -- and the realities of the Internet -- are of critical importance to the future of RM sales.
The Paris-based agency founded by Hélène Roger-Viollet is turning 70. What started as 30,000 negatives housed in a small Parisian store has grown to an 8-million-image collection that documents over a century of European history. The agency plans a number of commemorative events throughout the year.
The American Society of Picture Professionals has opened registration for its fifth education conference. The four-day event will take place in Mesa, Arizona, starting on April 24.
This revised list of the world’s leading picture libraries and portals takes into account the many additions and corrections submitted by readers and provides a more accurate reflection of the industry.
A generation of post-World War II children is beginning to retire. Baby boomers account for close to 30% of the U.S. population and equally staggering percentages of many European and Asian countries. Their transition into retirement is anticipated to have a profound cultural and economic influence over the next 20 years.
One could understand why it might be necessary to license rights for lower rates in countries with lower overall standards of living. But that does not explain why one country's prices are significantly lower or higher than another's.
San Diego photographer Annie Libby says that all the major stock distributors misunderstand and often misrepresent the gay community, largely by equating homosexuality with sex. Libby's new venture, outLOUDstock, will endeavor to fill a lucrative, yet underserved, market niche by challenging typical visual stereotypes.