Veer Shows Behind The Scene Of Photo Op Event
Veer has released a video showing the making of the Photo Op event that took place in Alberta, Canada in June last year. The company invited a groups of contributors that were supported by shooting teams of Veer staff. Over 80.000 images were captured and 7.000 are now live on the site.
Fotolia Exec Explains Distruptive Businessmodel
In this video Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder of Fotolia is asked about the disruptive nature of microstock in the stockphotography industry. He explains how prices on Fotolia are hundred times lower than Getty Images. Average price at Fotolia is $3 and their annual revenue is $100 million from 80.000 contributors that upload 20.000 professional photographs daily. [...]
Pixamba launches media management system for microstock
David Mail closed microstock agency Pixamba at the end of April to focus on his microstock management platform that has now launched. PRESS RELEASE Pixamba (www.pixamba.com) has today launched the Pixamba Media Management platform, a powerful yet affordable digital asset management service, specifically designed to help microstock photography users to manage their portfolio of licensed [...]
Microstock is the new Royalty Free
The distinction between microstock and royalty free (RF) is becoming irrelevant. If this seems a little controversial, consider the following: Veer announced that it is blending RF & microstock at Veer.com and moving rights managed (RM) imagery to Corbis. Getty launched Thinkstock this morning (ed. Wednesday this week). This is a subscription-only site which integrates imagery from Getty, [...]
Interview with photographer Pedro Diego
Today I am featuring an interview with one of our most successful microstockers Diego Cervo who is now submitting macro RF imagery direct to moodboard. Here we ask Diego about how he got started and his progress from micro to macro. I think both of these stories are really inspiring to any photographers starting out in [...]
NewsNow pulls links from paid service
In the debate about paid content and the role of content aggregators Newsnow has been forced to remove content linking to UK newspaper content. This comes after a dispute with the Newspaper licensing agency. The links will remain available on NewsNow’s aggregation website, but won’t be included any more in their paid-for subscription service. NewsNow [...]
Is microstock really killing markets?
Some compare Microstock to pollution and see it destroying the industry, others see it as a natural innovation that is inevitable. It’s striking to see how opinions differ on this subject. One of the reasons I publish this magazine is to bring together outsiders’ opinions with insider views (and sometimes preconceptions) and here’s a debate that just heated [...]
Corbis channel team shares tactics
Last week I published 10 tips for indirect sales management and 10 questions to ask yourself before signing a reseller. As a follow up I talked to the channel team at Corbis. Having worked worked in the team I knew the potential of this businessmodel and was aware of its strong track record to grow revenues. Over [...]
Panthermedia lowers pricing up to 85%
Microstock agency Panthermeda is making considerable changes to its credit prices and is simplifying its licenses. Prices for some licenses have been reduced up to 85 percent. Print XL (DIN A4/Letter Size) images can now be acquired for 12 credits Print XXL images in full resolution are 24 credits. Images for blogs are available from [...]
New microstock site launches in Brazil
Experienced stock industry professional Gianfranco Coppola has launched microfoto. It is labelled as the largest Brazilian based stock photography website for creative digital stock images in three languages. Gianfranco told me has had the idea for a long time. From the decision to go ahead, building the site and dealing with the various complications took [...]
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