This issue has short items on SuperStock Closing European Offices, Masterfile Expanding Sales Force, Workbookstock.com Releasing New Catalogs, Dynamic Graphics Names Director of Business Affairs, Tracking Uses and Streaming Video In Advertising.
Photographers with large files of model released images are trying to find agencies who will take their whole body of work. This story includes advice Jim Pickerell gave to one such photographer recently.
This issue has short items on Presenting Digital Images for Customer Consideration, Online Use in the Book Publishing Arena, Licensing Unlimited Rights, Picturehouse in New York, Digital Vision Sanctioned For Racial Discrimination and Hemera's New Royalty Free Membership Offering.
Many organizations are putting huge numbers of images into online databases. The big problem is in choosing which images to scan. This story deals with the dilemma as outlined in a recent ASPP seminar entitled, ''Big Archives, Big Decisions: a Digital Dilemma.''
Now that we know who the buyers are, what do they want to buy? What are
the subjects that sell? In the broadest sense almost anything. Daily
there are weird requests coming from small special interest
publications and book publishers for very unique and unusual subject
matter that very few people are likely to have ever photographed.
Image return has become a major issue for many photographers. The basic problem has been with the industry for a long time, but several factors have recently come together to dramatically raise the level of concern. Review the dimensions of the problem and learn what you can do.
Despite recent setbacks, PACA has announced that it is moving forward with a new leadership team and a re-writing of the organization's bylaws. The 2002 International Conference to be held in Miami in November is on track to be a major industry event.
This edition of the newsletter has stories on Getty's Accounting Problems, Integration, Pictor Folds, Creative Eye Folds, Building A Searchable Web Site, Flat Sales At Getty, Masterfile Drops First-Refusal Policy, Digital Vision and Getty, Natural Selection's New Site, PACA Regroups and more.
Creative Eye is asking member photographers to approve an assessment of $750 each in order to keep its doors open beyond October 1, 2002. If a sufficient number of members do not agree to this assessment by August 23rd CE has said it will begin the process of an orderly shut down as of September 1st.
Renowned adventure photographer Galen Rowell and his wife Barbara were killed August 11th in a plane crash near their home in Bishop, CA. They were returning from a three week photo workshop in the Bering Sea.
In this issue are points for RF distributors to consider about Digital Vision's new alliance with Getty, Getty and Klein Sell Shares, Corbis Sales of Editorial Images For Advertising, PictureQuest to Set Up German Office, Imagefile in Ireland Splits and Pictor Folds.
One of the big problems in building a business by acquisition is that eventually integration of the smaller entities is necessary. Getty and Corbis are both facing integration problems now. Check out some of the hurdles that photographers should consider as they move ahead.
Until recently Masterfile had been one of the last major agencies to insist that every photographer they represented be exclusive with them. Earlier this year they moved to an image-exclusive contract with all their artists, but they still insisted on the right-of-first-refusal. Now they have eliminated that as well. This provides great new opportunities for photographers.
Getty Images posted a profit for the second consecutive quarter, but sales dipped 2.2% to $113.3 million when compared with sales a year ago. Jonathan Klein said, ''Not withstanding the turmoil in the financial markets and the very difficult environment in which many of our customers still find themselves, our business is in the best shape it has ever been.''
One of E-bay's sellers is offering hard drives loaded with Royalty Free images in violation of the RF license. His most recent sale was an 80GB Maxtor firewire Mac/PC external drive in perfect condition with over 60 RF titles for $760.00. Creators get nothing for such sales. E-bay has been asked to cancel this seller's privileges, but so far has done nothing.
Thinking about developing your own website where customers can search for your images? This story gives information about four cost effective solutions to the problem that are working successfully for photographers. Many photographers are finding that having their own site is an important key to maximizing sales of their images.
Natural Selection has launched a new web site with a Category Tree search feature. David Brown says it makes searching for images faster and far more accurate than keyword systems. The URL for the site is http://www.nssp.com.
Is the stock industry giving customers what they want? In the near future the only images available for licensing will be those that can be searched and delivered online. The online images will never be more than a minute fraction of the total images available in stock files today and many customers still want to use many of these other images.
This contains short items on: Advertising Recovery?, Getty Expectations, PACA International Conference Scheduled, What's In A Name: RP or RM, SuperStock Website Redesign and The StockRep Closes.
Is the stock industry giving customers what they want? In the near future the only images available for licensing will be those that can be searched and delivered online. The online images will never be more than a minute fraction of the total images available in stock files today and many customers still want to use many of these other images.
In this issue there are stories on: Customer Service, Veer Directory, PanStock To Represent Mon-Tresor, Burak Joins TimePix, CEPIC International Congress, PACA Reorganization, Workbookstock.com Print Catalog, Masterfile To Represent Zefa in U.S., Sheldon Marshall Resigns From ImageState, Pictor Bankruptcy, Corbis Reorganization and more.
The team behind EyeWire is pioneering a frequent, direct-mail directory that will help Rights-Managed image suppliers sell their images. The Veer Directory of Rights-Managed Stock Imagery is designed to assist buyers in their search for images and to drive traffic to seller's web sites. Only those with searchable web sites will be accepted as advertisers.
visual media international the parent company of ''zefa'' Dusseldorf, has entered into a strategic alliance with Masterfile Corporation in Toronto that has major implications for the industry.
PACA has been forced to reorganize and dramatically cut costs in the face of severe financial losses in 2001. The Seventh International Conference will be held in South Beach, Miami, Florida this year.
Sheldon Marshall has resigned from ImageState after the board decided to focus on organic growth rather than growth through acquisition. Chris Adamson is serving as acting Chief Executive Office until a new CEO can be hired.