Getty Images completes acquisition of HAAP media
HAAP Media announced today that Getty Images Inc. has completed the full acquisition of the company. HAAP media. HAAP Media runs the Stock Images sites Stock.XCHNG and Stockxpert. The founding partners in HAAP Media Ltd., Mr. Andras Pfaff and Mr. Peter Hamza, owners through Dream Group (Hungary), have sold their remaining interest in HAAP after nearly [...]
Getty Images grants to continue
Getty Images announced that its two major grant programs, Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography and Getty Images Grants for Good, will continue in 2010. The programs have provided grants of more than $500,000 over the past five years, are to continue next year with the following changes: Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography [...]
Getty Images issues call for Flickr artists
Getty Images partnered with Flickr about a year ago and is now issuing a formal call for artists. Any Flickr artist can now submit work to be considered for submission to the collection. This can be done through the call for artists group on Flickr. It appears that the task of finding suitable, relevant images [...]
Getty Images will distribute Bloomberg Photos
Getty Images, Inc will give its customers access to the entire archive of BLOOMBERG PHOTOS™ images. This will allow Getty Images to provide editorial imagery coverage of the financial and business sectors. Getty Images has the exclusive agency rights to market all BLOOMBERG PHOTOS imagery, both past and present, captured by Bloomberg’s network of 400 photographers [...]
Getty Images and Corbis explain redundancies
Reacting to various articles and blogs about changes and redundancies in both companies I contacted both Getty Images and Corbis to get an idea of the scope of the changes and the background for the decision that is impacting staff at both companies. The Corbis changes were announced in the various offices last week and [...]
iStockphoto doing $850.000,- in one day says CEO
Getty Images co-founder and CEO has just done an interview with Times online. He adresses the impact of the recession on Getty Images and talks about iStockphoto in particular and quotes impressive revenue numbers. “He reckons that it is a good time for Getty to be in private hands, not least because the prevailing environment [...]
Getty Images introducing social media licensing options
Getty Images recognizes that our customers need to be more nimble than ever, and our licensing must continue to evolve accordingly. Today, Getty Images has introduced two new licensing options designed specifically for social media use. When licensing any creative image under our rights-managed licensing model, customers can now select “Other Web & Mobile Uses” [...]
Getty Images official photographic partner to the Champions League twenty20
Getty Images, Inc. announced today that it has been appointed by Global Cricket Ventures (GCV) as the official photographic partner to The Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20). The CLT20 brings together domestic leagues from seven nations as they clash for the top spot in Twenty20 cricket. The tournament takes place in India from 8th – 23rd October [...]
Getty Images to distribute Disney/ABC Television Group
Disney/ABC Television Group (DATG) and Getty Images Inc jointly announced that Getty Images will be the exclusive worldwide third-party distributor of all imagery owned by DATG. According to the press release there is an increasing demand from “editorial customers for imagery that captures everything from behind the scenes to exclusive celebrity portraiture across DATG’s award-winning programming.” From [...]
Picasa introduces facial recognition
Google is adding facial recognition technology to it’s 3.5 release of Picasa. Earlier rolled out in Picasa web album this allows users to add name tags to photos. This allows users to organise photos by the people in them. The technology identifies similar faces and puts these into an “unnamed people” album. From here users [...]
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