A couple weeks ago I complained that our industry has established ridiculous price multipliers for book use when large circulations are compared to small ones. So I was asked to supply an answer. I did.
Online content-syndication company Mochila has announced site improvements and a new partnership with domain registrar Go Daddy.
According to The Bridgeman Art Library, this holiday season has revealed a new trend: Japanese art has become third among the top five image categories sought by greeting card and other holiday product publishers.
Recently launched collections with a European flavor can count on market demand. Central and Eastern European markets have seen advertising growth rates of close to 18% per year. Russia doubles its ad spending every year, and Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Romania show similar figures.
As of Jan. 7, 2008, Getty Images-owned microstock iStockphoto is raising prices for photography and illustration. According to the announcement on its Web site, the move "balance[s] the creative needs of [iStock] customers with the financial rewards desired by excellent artists."
Photographers are confused and frustrated by recent happenings at Photolibrary's Index Stock brand. The company's Australian headquarters is doing little to explain or reassure.
Launched this week, the Nielsen Media Manager is intended to allow content owners to enforce copyright and monetize online video.
The PICTA Picture Agency Fair will be held in Hamburg from March 6- 8. Organized by the German Association of Press and Picture Agencies and Archives (BVPA), the event will take place at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.
Citizen photography has hit the majors. Last week, leading global news service Agence France-Presse took a 30% stake in the Paris -based citizen journalism company Scooplive. French firm IAM also took a 30% minority stake in the online film and photo platform.
Getty Images has decided to pull all its RF images from its Netherlands distributors in order to "add value" to its wholly owned office in that territory. But will the move help Getty or empower distributors?
Majority World, a Bangladesh-based image library that focuses on developing-world imagery, is a year-old. The agency, which provides indigenous photographers with a chance to compete in the global market, reports inventory growth and a rising number of buyers. It attributes this to "ethical sourcing" of photography.
Zenith Optimedia expects 2007 U.S. ad-spending growth to be just 2.5%, down from the 3.7% expansion the company foresaw as recently as last summer. But the situation for still photographers trying to sell images for ad use might be worse than anticipated.
The Creative Commons CEO apologized for license confusion. His remarks were the result of a lawsuit alleging inappropriate use of a minor's CC-licensed photo in an ad campaign for Virgin Mobile of Australia.
On Dec. 11, an exhibition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will showcase never-before-seen photographs of historic film and entertainment personalities by Magnum Photos.
OnRequest has abandoned it's "custom stock" format. The company is now focused on dealing with large corporate customers, the end users of the images, not ad agencies. The emphasis is on building custom libraries.