Where Do Buyers Go To Get Stock?

By Jim Pickerell | 286 Words | Posted 11/23/2011 | Comments (1)
PhotoShelter has published a new Free guide to Selling Stock Photography that can be found and downloaded here. The guide includes results of a survey of 500 buyers of stock that shows which collections they search most frequently.

Masterfile Launches New $10 Collection

By Jim Pickerell | 197 Words | Posted 11/22/2011 | Comments
Masterfile has added 1.5 million budget-friendly photos and illustrations to its website at www.masterfile.com, complementing its large collection of premium rights-managed and royalty-free images. Customers can easily toggle between the RM/RF collection and the $10 collection, but images from both collections are not shown at the same time.

Shutterstock Launches iPad App

By Jim Pickerell | 377 Words | Posted 11/22/2011 | Comments
Shutterstock Images LLC has  released its Shutterstock for iPad app, available for free download now in the Apple App Store.

Image Collect Doubles Size In 3 Months: Over 3 Million Images

By Jim Pickerell | 274 Words | Posted 11/18/2011 | Comments
Just 8 months after launch ImageCollect.com, a celebrity picture library offering images at microstock prices, has doubled in size in 3 months and now has more than three million images available for download.  The library contains archival imagery and current content supplied by top entertainment photographers. The company expects to have more than 5 million images by early 2012.

Granger Collection Adds 35,000+ Images From Ullstein Bild

By Jim Pickerell | 247 Words | Posted 11/18/2011 | Comments
More than 35,000 images highlighting European politics, the arts, entertainment, and lifestyle from ullstein bild, Germany’s oldest picture archive, are now available at The Granger Collection’s website, www.granger.com.  Based in Berlin, ullstein bild holds one of the most significant collections of historical imagery in Europe, covering the ancient past to current events.

Aurora Photos Launches myPhone Collection

By Jim Pickerell | 484 Words | Posted 11/16/2011 | Comments
Aurora Photos is excited to announce the launch of the myPhone Collection of stock photography, a collection of images taken with iPhones and other mobile devices by some of the world’s top photographers and iPhoneographers, and now made available to pictures buyers for both editorial and commercial licensing. To coincide with the launch of the myPhone Collection, Aurora is also introducing a new modified Rights Managed licensing model called Easy Rights Managed. The model offers simple, quick, broad, and managed rights at reasonable prices.

Easy Rights Managed Licensing

By Jim Pickerell | 1251 Words | Posted 11/16/2011 | Comments (1)
With its launch of its myPhone Collection Aurora Photos has also introduced a new simplified Rights Managed pricing model they call Easy Rights Managed. “The model offers simple, quick, broad, and managed rights at reasonable prices.” The model is similar in some ways to the Rights-Ready model launched by Getty Images in 2006. Getty later abandoned this experiment.

2011 Market Size: Additional Information

By Jim Pickerell | 1724 Words | Posted 11/14/2011 | Comments (1)
After reading Stock Photo Market Size In 2011 Tom Zimberoff asked several question that need a more detailed response. This story explains why growing microstock revenue does not mean that a growing number of microstock images are being used.

Dreamstime Launches “Give Thanks, Give Back” Campaign

By Jim Pickerell | 196 Words | Posted 11/14/2011 | Comments
While Thanksgiving is a joyous event for many, for those less fortunate it can be a difficult time. With this in mind, Dreamstime, is launching its “Give Thanks, Give Back” campaign to help share the blessings of this year’s Thanksgiving with those less fortunate.

Occupy Book Publishers

By Jim Pickerell | 1307 Words | Posted 11/11/2011 | Comments
The Occupy Wall Street movement’s “we are the 99 percent” campaign is basically about a fairer distribution of wealth. Photographers and those who handle the distribution of images to end users need to launch an Occupy Book Publishers movement.

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