Archive

2010
Jan
04
05
Disney completes Marvel acquisition
“The Walt Disney Company has completed the acquisition of Marvel that it announced in August of ...”
Zymmetrical stock photography agency closes shop
“Midstock agency Zymmetrical has closed at the end of 2009. The website adress now takes ...”
Finding and rewarding clients in 2010 with Fast Media Magazine
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Microsoft to reveal tablet pc ahead of Apple
“There have been months of speculation about Apple's highly anticipated tablet PC. After the long ...”
Google's Nexus out to beat the iPhone
“ Google has launched its Nexus phone. Widely seen as the biggest competitor of Apple's iPhone, ...”
Cooliris builds "The Gallery" for Google's Nexus phone
Latest e-Reader comes with ultra thin, flexible screen
Spend minutes, get years of exposure
08
Latinstock and KIT Digital in Joint Venture
“Latinstock Digital,a subsidiary of Latinstock focussing on Digital Asset Management (DAM) has announced a Joint Venture ...”
Jobs: Managing Editor at Photoshot UK
The impact of social media on stock media in 2010
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Jobs: Sales professional at Whitelabel sales
Picture library to launch magazine
“Mary Evans Picture Library is to launch Me&You magazine that will give their clients insight ...”
Fast flip now on Google news
“Google continues to develop their Fastflip functionality. The functionality that allows to flip through magazines ...”
What happens when Steve Ballmer fires you?
5 ways to Engage people after the recession
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Facebook connect and privacy by Mark Zuckerberg
“Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed by Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington. One of the subjects was privacy. Facebook ...”
Poll: What type of content would you pay for?
“In the last 4 months I have posted almost 500 news posts, interviews and articles. ...”
Getty images in exclusive partnership with Washington Post
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The Great Debate: The future of Stock Photography
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Free ebook: Bringing nothing to the party
“Seth Godin published a great fee eBook around Christmas. Since then author Paul Carr has ...”
Image Source World Cup ticket competition
14
First look at a transparent computer screen
A 570 megapixel camera looking for dark energy
“Fermilab specializes in high energy particle physics and operates a particle accelerator in Illinois USA. They ...”
1 comments
1.200 people to be made redundant at AOL
“More bad news for the media industry in 2010 as struggling AOL will make another ...”
Herbert Ponting exhibition in Getty Images Gallery
Cannes Lions open for registration
Google stops censoring and may leave Chinese market
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Rupert Murdoch puts his money where his mouth is
“After spending most of 2009 attacking blogs, online magazines and even Google for publishing content ...”
Photoagency Aflo signs exclusive deal with Associated Press
“Japanese stock photography agency Aflo has announced a partnership with the Associated Press (AP).  Tokyo-based Aflo ...”
1 comments
Imagesource goes on ImageExchange
“Image Source is the latest company to add its entire collection of images to the PicScout ...”
1 comments
Watch out if you're depending on revenue from print media
“If you generate a significant portion of licensing revenue from printed media. After the large ...”
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New Tablet PC's creating opportunities for Stock Media's long tail.
“Mashable, a site that writes about Social Media has had another look at the Apple tablet (the one ...”
Fotolia lists top selling photographers
“In alphabetical order, the top three sellers in 2009 on Fotolia were: Artist: ioannis kounadeas Artist: ...”
Marketing spend falls for ninth quarter
“The latest IPA/BDO Bellwether survey published today (18th January 2010) reveals that marketing spend fell ...”
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Jobs: Paparazzi and Celebrity Photographers
“Photoshot is a UK based photographic agency with overseas offices in Berlin, New York and ...”
Bapla versus The Digital Economy bill
“The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA) is taking issue with a clause ...”
Frankencamera throws out the rulebook
Apple to launch their tablet next week?
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Bankrupcies and redundancies continue
“At the beginning of this week we reported on the continuing challenges facing the print ...”
Is linking to content really under threat?
“The CEO of Newsnow speaks out for the right to link to news articles in ...”
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Photocuisine UK prize draw
Oeil Public closed yesterday
Big photography gathering in London tomorrow
“The "I'm a photographer, not a terrorist" campaign is organising a gathering on London's trafalgar ...”
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How to pay for content on tablet pc's
“With the anticipated launch of the Apple tablet later this week speculation about the look ...”
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Reboot; engaging the American public with media policy
“The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched Reboot. The initiative follows Barrack Obama's call ...”
Free social media guide at Photoshelter
Piracy damaging music sales acutely?
“The IFPI has published its digital music report 2010 and claims that new licensing deals ...”
Interview with photographer Pedro Diego
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Getty Images continues with PGA tour
“Getty Images has announced a multi-year extension as the exclusive commercial photo partner with PGA TOUR, ...”
New commercial sports collection by Action Plus
The start of the digital marketing decade
Why photographers should listen to economists
1 comments
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More newspapers introducing paywalls
“Not long after the New York Times announced the introduction of paywalls for its content, ...”
1 comments
What photographers can learn from the music industry
1 comments
A Microstock price war?
1 comments
Location based content with Foursquare and Metro
“The Canadian version of Metro is Canada's biggest free newspaper. Foursquare is a startup that is ...”
Accepting Responsibility, The Cornerstone Of Success In Photography
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Two Class System – Where Do You Live In Phototown?
Not everyone happy with Apple iPad
“ Now that the cat is out of the bag and Apple has launched its new ...”
Panthermedia launches new website
Death march for older mediums says Eisner
“Michael Eisner, the ex-CEO of the Disney company is not overly optimistic about the future ...”
Tips for making best selling stock photos
Feb
01
Pilfered, 'Robin Hood' of the web or stealing copyright?
“Updated 01 Feb 2010: Patrick Ross  of the copyright alliance  has posted a reaction titled Pilfering ...”
3 comments
Recruiting industry experts or experienced outsiders?
Embracing the power of open source...everything
2 comments
Like a TV dinner
02
Kent news and pictures closes
“Journalism.co.uk reports that Kent News and Pictures closed yesterday. Its founder blames poor national newspaper ...”
Thinkstock; is 2010 the year of merging licensing models?
Where are advertising markets going in 2010?
“After a tough year for advertising, 2010 may be an improvement if some of the first ...”
Deadline for comments on Google books settlement passes
Michael Dell buys Magnum Collection for undisclosed sum
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Job: Picture library manager
“Salary Range: approx £20,000 pro rata PA  Writer Pictures is a small but fast growing image ...”
iStockphoto sends takedown notice to Awkward Stock Photos
Microstock is the new Royalty Free
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08
Getty Images closing Stockxpert this month
“Following the launch of Thinkstock  last week StockXpert  has stopped selling credits, accepting new members and uploads ...”
Interview: Shannon Fagan, SAA President and photographer
Following John Lund interview, tips from Shannon Fagan
09
Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein on music licensing
“Digital Music Trends - Midem 2010 Special - Day 3 by digitalmusictrends A delegation of Getty ...”
Photolibrary acquires Peter Arnold collection
“Photolibrary  has announce its acquisition of New York-based Peter Arnold Inc . The company has already acquired a ...”
Apples and Oranges
10
Job: Work experience at Art Licensing Library
“We are offering a voluntary work experience placement to assist our sales team. The office ...”
Stockxpose, new microstock site or illegal activity?
“The launch of a new stock photography agency has sparked a debate on Microstockgroup . Stockxpose ...”
How can photographers make money from display-ad growth?
D&AD New Blood exhibition dates confirmed
“The D&AD  in the UK has announced it's date for the New Blood  exhibition. It ...”
Save on great photography, start with Fast Media Discounts
11
Magazines still in decline and no bailout in sight
“Magazine sales have been on a worsening decline from 2008 to 2009 with periods of ...”
How to stop wasting money in meetings
Is Fotomoto a threat to traditional stock agencies?
“Picscout/Image exchange is not the only solution that intends to make image licensing easier. Fotomoto is another company that ...”
1 comments
12
One of the first iPad Magazines is launched
“Here's a video of one of the first magazines that publishes on the Apple iPad . ...”
New 9/11 2001 police helicopter images released
Actionplus reporting from the Winter Olympics
How much do photographers need to fear this company?
“We wrote about Demand Media  a few months ago. The New York Times has published ...”
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Check out these new developments at Fast Media Group
“Before we kick off the week with more news and articles I wanted to take ...”
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Music streamer Spotify deserted by Warner Music
“Record companies are still struggling with new business models. This time it's music streaming Spotify ...”
Can I Make A Living With Stock Photography?
Alamy reports good news for photographers
“As the photography industry continues to feel the effects of the recession, Alamy is offering ...”
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Use pictures to fly across the real world
“  One of Google's engineers teams have come up with a project that uses images on a modified a ...”
Photographers: "be a hub" - Taylor Davidson
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Publicis revenue falls short in 2009
Blackberry getting up to speed, literally
“Browsing the internet on Blackberry  has always been a bit of a frustrating affair due to ...”
Corbis simplifies rights managed licensing model
Blend Images launches new photography collection
“Blend Images  is a stock photography agency that specializes in producing ethnically diverse business and ...”
Photoshelter integrates Picscout for its photographers
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Twitter still growing, hits 73,5 million unique users
“Twitter is still growing and is generating real leads for many companies that use it ...”
Soon there will be free pictures of everything
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4corners photographer receives World Press Photo award
“Photographer Tommaso Ausili, a contributor at London based 4Corners images has won the third price in ...”
Social networking may replace email in business
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Travel the Trans Siberian Railway, virtually
“Google has teamed up with the Russian Railways on a project that lets  everyone experience the epic ...”
How much simpler can licensing models get?
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Footage.net partners with Getty Images
“Footage.net, an aggregator of stock footage databases,  has partnered with Getty Images  and added its entire footage database of ...”
Latinstock Brazil, focussing on digital
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Alamy reports latest results, down 13% in fourth quarter
“UK Stock Photography company Alamy has posted their quarter four 2009 results. Revenue dropped by 13% versus the fourth ...”
Supermodels, celebrities and priorities
Paca launches new search engine for image buyers
“Picture Archive Council of America  (PACA) has launched a search engine that allows image buyers ...”
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Media buyers are trying to find you
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Mar
01
02
The role of relationships in photography success
More staff cuts at major media company
“ABC news has cut 25% of its workforce in a development that could be followed by ...”
After books, google planning to scan magazines
“Google is setting itself up for more controversy with  a patent application that was made ...”
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Imagine china, new office in a challenging country
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03
Job: Staff Photographers
“London’s leading paparazzi and entertainment picture agency is looking for new, talented and enthusiastic junior ...”
Job: Interns at Fast Media Magazine
“We are looking for a number of interns to work on the daily content at ...”
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Job: Sales at Plainpicture
“plainpicture was founded in 2001 as an alternative source for commercial imagery with a strong ...”
Six degrees portraits, Steve Lake
Google acquires photo editing software company Picnic
“Over the course of 2009 Google announced  a number of innovations to their image search ...”
04
Using your mobile phone to influence a movie
“Here's an interesting piece of interactivity. Instead of asking you to turn of your mobile ...”
1 comments
Lookstat offers free guide on microstock
“Lookstat , a company that helps photographers upload images to multiple microstock websites at once is ...”
1 comments
BBC proposing major cuts to some services
New: Get a free personal profile on our site
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A cheap iPad alternative in the making
1 comments
05
Bigstock makes changes to website
“Bigstock, a royalty free stock photography agency has announced changes to its website. The new site ...”
Robert Harding reports good news
“Robert Harding  has recently made changes to its website and is reporting a marked increase ...”
Retna pictures acquired by Photoshot
“Photoshot, a picture agency in London has acquired Retna  Pictures, a  picture agency specialised in ...”
08
So magazines are not dead?
Facebook buying Twitter spoof
“Suze Orman interviews a certain Mark Z who claims he wants to buy Twitter for ...”
Stages of grief: Poll results
“When I published our stages of grief post I said I believed the stock photography ...”
Thought Equity Motion brings contextual media to life
“When we first talked  to thought equity  back in 2009 they introduced the concept of contextual media. ...”
Microsoft Booklet versus Apple iPad
“We reported on the Microsoft Courier  before here. This prototype tablet device is set to ...”
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Online newspaper Huffington Post keeps moving forward
“The Huffington Post, the online newspaper and aggregated blog that was founded by Arianna Huffington in ...”
WPP has been 'staring into the abyss'
09
When will the media licensing industry “Burn The Boats”?
“Mark Andreesen, the multimiljonair entrepreneur and co-founder of netscape  gave a stern message to the publishing ...”
The fast growth of the internet on interactive map
“The BBC has released an interactive chart of the growth of the internet. You can ...”
Everyone can now auto-caption YouTube video's
“With 20 hours of video uploaded every minute it would be an understatement to say ...”
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We really tried not to publish about this site
“This post has been sitting in the backoffice as a draft for about 2 weeks ...”
The "tablet wars" have started
“Over 50 tablet devices may be launched in  2010 following the launch of the iPad . The ...”
Times paywall could start in May
“ 2009 was the year of heavy debate about how and what to charge for online ...”
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How about this hybrid pricing model for photography?
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Bapla's position on orphan works
“The British Association of Picture Libraries  (BAPLA) is actively lobbying for the interests of Picture ...”
Is art made by a machine still art?
12
Google Play's impact on photographer rights
“Most of you will be familiar with Google reader as a way to keep up to ...”
1 comments
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Google Executive: Newspapers need to experiment, experiment
“Google is fighting back accusations that it's stealing newspapers content when it puts excerpts on ...”
Rex Features apologises for Kate Middleton photo
“London Photography agency Rex Features  has issued an apology and paid £5.000 in damages around a ...”
Sales Executive at construction photography
“Sales Executive - part time Construction Photography is the leading independent library and agency providing the ...”
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System administrator at the data archive
“System Administrator, Office support + Dev About the Job The Data Archive are an innovative IT company ...”
KIT Digital acquires Multicast
“We first reported on KIT Digital for their collaboration with Latinstock. Today the Czech Republic ...”
Check out this 26 Gigapixel picture of Paris
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House of Lords passes Digital Economy Bill, petitions and protest planned
“According to the BBC, the UK House of Lords has passed the Digital Economy Bill . ...”
Taylor Davidson is moving up in photo business strategy
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Home taping is killing music revisited
“Musician Dan Bull has produced some earlier gems about the fight between paid versus free music. ...”
You can now embed Animoto video tool on your website
“We interviewed Animoto  last year and were impressed with the very simple way to create a ...”
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iStockphoto introduces microdonations
“iStockphoto has launched a program that will allow clients, contributors and employees to make micro-donations ...”
Stubborn companies are an endangered species
All media integrated in one digital magazine demo
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Google to host Key seminar at UK picture buyers fair
“Google  will host one of the key seminars on this years' Picture Buyers Fair  (PBF) in London. ...”
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The most expensive viral video of all time?
“Check out this making of a campaign that has landed Heineken  over 5 million hits on ...”
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Books are not dying in this Dorling Kindersley video
“The UK branche of publisher Dorling Kindersley  produced a video for an internal sales conference ...”
"Image First" Stock photography pricing
YouTube will cease to exist if it looses this lawsuit
“For those not paying attention, Viacom  is suing YouTube  for $1 Billion for alledgedly posting copyrighted programs ...”
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Site open for all comments and registrations
“Last saturday we asked you to hold off on posting comments as we were upgrading the ...”
Footage.net upgrades site and launches directory
“ Footage.net, a stock, archival and news footage search engine, has made changes to is's stock footage ...”
Corbis re-signs Tony Duran to Outline collection
“Corbis Images,  has announced that renowned photographer Tony Duran  has returned to the Corbis celebrity portraiture collection, ...”
Digital Economy Bill explained and opposed
Win 1000 free images with 'Moodboard Man' competition
105 Free Stock Photography Websites (Updated)
“Buying photography is changing....fast, and it's getting ever cheaper. We have listed 105 Stock Photography ...”
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Sales professionals at Whitelabel Sales
“  Whitelabelsales is expanding its international client base  and is looking for a number of ...”
The Most Important Predictor of Success in Stock Photography
Transportation agency uses augmented reality to show you the way
Corbis, Adobe, Ogilvy Sponsor Global Portfolio Night. 20th of May
“ihaveanidea , a global community for the international advertising industry has announced the 8th portfolio night ...”
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The Onion: YouTube competition to upload 'Good' video's
Industry organisations release joint statement on digital economy bill
“A number of organisations have joined forces and have released a statement about their position ...”
Universal breaks mould by lowering CD prices
“As a result of the pressure of online music sales and in the hope to ...”
Connect with digital media buyers and sellers in new community
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Times newspaper will start to charge for online content
Say hello to advertising on the iPad
Photography copyright infringement increases threefold
“Infringement case volume increased more than 3 times in 2009 versus 2006. This is according ...”
Need to name a new product this week? Try this.
“Here's a tip if you're looking to name a product, company...anything really later this week. ...”
Present your business to media buyers, for free
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Stock photo agency Fotomind closes
“Fotomind , a royalty free stock photography agency that was launched in 2007 in Romania is ...”
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Interactive advertising on the iPad (...and other tablets)
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Connecting digital media buyers and sellers with your support
“The more companies choose to support and sponsor our website the more we can, and ...”
New award for film makers launches
“Framepool , LBB Online  and the Fireflies are launching a new award for film makers. In this inaugural ...”
Getty Images and MLS extend their agreement
News from our digital media community [Updated]
“ Picture buyers can now post research requests in the new group Picture search requests. ...”
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Magnum print room exhibition showcases first 10 years
Changes at Superstock
“Superstock,  a Stock photography agency with 3,8 million images has promoted Carole Spike-Robertson to UK Sales Manager and ...”
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The many ways to succeed in stock photography
Alamy gearing up for the advertising and design market
“Alamy  photographers can now upload digital copies of model and property releases. These releases are essential ...”
The only thing to fear is...
Apr
01
The latest savings on photography and software for our readers
Fast Media over the easter week-end
Writers for Fast Media Magazine wanted
“We hope you like the content on Fast Media so far, if you do, and ...”
Mini consultancy for photographers
“Stock photography industry veteran and consultant Ellen Boughn is launching innovative mini consultancy sessions for ...”
02
Plainpicture launches new e-commerce website
“German stock photography agency Plainpicture  has relaunched its website. Amongst other changes, it's now showing more imagery ...”
iStockphoto celebrates with $20.000 prize-draw
05
YouTube launches major frontend redesign
“Over the past few days YouTube has completed one of the largest redesigns in its ...”
Companies and organisations campaign for online privacy framework
Getty Images adds 100.000 images from the New York Daily News
“Getty Images has added over  100,000 images from the New York Daily News to its collection. ...”
06
Getty Images UK offers 30% off images and footage
“Getty Images is offering a 30% discount on royalty free and rights managed images and ...”
20% discount with Vivozoom affiliate program
“Microstock photography website Vivozoom has launched a new affiliate program to celebrate its first year ...”
Matrixphotos launches iPhone app that helps you find celebrities
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07
iPad in car dashboard and gadged-packed vest
“Now that the first 300.000 iPads have been sold, the race to produce the 'killer ...”
Picassa increases album-limit to 10.000
“Picassa web albums, a photo storage and sharing solution that is owned by Google has ...”
The future of image search
Polylooks launches subscription
“German stock photography agency Polylooks is introducing subscriptions on its website. Clients can now buy packages ...”
Transtock adds HD footage
“Transtock,  a stock photography agency specialised in transportation related photography is announcing the addition of ...”
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Chase Jarvis and 'the best camera' iPhone app
“Here's a photographer that proves high-end photography and user generated content can 'co-exist peacefully' Chase Jarvis , ...”
iAd new opportunity for photography and video companies?
“In a move to challenge Google's firm grip on online advertising Apple is launching the ...”
[Updated] Apple sells 450.000 iPads, 3,5 million apps downloaded
Photography organisations file lawsuit against Google
“A number of organisations representing photographers has filed a lawsuit for copyright infringement against Google. ...”
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66 Free background, texture and clipart websites
“We are continuing to explore the opportunities that are available for digital media buyers and ...”
Photoshot makes 14th acquisition
“Barely a week after the integration of Retna UK , Photoshot, a London-based stockphotography agency has ...”
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[Updated] Digital Economy Bill passes without orphan works clause
“ I have added the link to the Bapla press release that is quoted in ...”
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Photolibrary moving into editorial imagery
“Photolibrary is making a decisive step to move into the editorial image space with the ...”
The fastest way to photo and media news
How to thrive in stock photography
Visual search app Plink bought by Google
The future of search
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I'm here, a new approach to online movies
“I'm here the movie, is a 30 minute love story between two robots in L.A. ...”
Photographer John Bulmer at the Hotshoe gallery
“The Hotshoe gallery in London will open a John Bulmer retrospective that will show from ...”
Twitter finally introduces advertising
“After a long wait and much anticipation Twitter has introduced its first revenue-generating feature. It ...”
Thought Equity and Japan Broadcasting Corp sign agreement
“NHK International, Inc., the global footage licensing business of  NHK (the Japan Broadcasting Corporation), and Thought ...”
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3D teleconferencing coming to a boardroom near you
“We've been introduced to 3d movies this winter with the blockbuster Avatar , and as a ...”
Bridgeman art library to scan Huntington library
“Bridgeman art library, a leading fine art library will represent the Huntington Library and Art ...”
Tony Stone joins microstock agency Vivozoom
“Tony Stone, founder of the iconic stock photography agency Tony Stone Images (now the Stone  collection ...”
Value, not usage, to determine picture pricing
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Greek man sues over portrait on Turkish yoghurt
“Mainstream media have caught on to what an industry knew was always a possibility. A ...”
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News summary and digest April 18th
Two political parties use the same, iStock, photo
“It's not just the portrait of a Greek man on a pot of Turkish Yoghurt ...”
1 comments
How much is a Facebook fan worth?
“For companies that are not sure how to deal with social media here's a small ...”
Olycom launches new website
“Italian stock photography agency Olycom  has relaunched its website. The site now offers music and animations ...”
Express newspapers shows its iPad edition
“In the UK, the Express newspapers have shown their approach to newspapers on the iPad. ...”
News summary and digest April 19th
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
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Time inc to create one ipad app each month
“Following the quick consumer pickup of Apple's iPad , publishers across the Globe are rushing to ...”
Nachofoto introduces time factor in image search results
“PRESS RELEASE: NachoFoto (www.nachofoto.com), a technology company pioneering a new approach to image search, unveils ...”
News summary and digest April 20th
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
Video's of HP/Windows iPad competitor
“With all the buzz around the iPad  combined with the very strong sales numbers here's ...”
New York Times: The image of a shrinking path
“The New York Times  published an article about the shake-up in the photography industry, this ...”
1 comments
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News summary and digest April 21st
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
1 comments
Shooting Stock: It’s Not Brain Surgery
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Is Tony Stone the true founder of Getty Images?
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Omnicom sees increase in first quarter revenue
“ Global marketing and communications group Omnicom  is breathing some moderate optimism into the advertising market. The company ...”
1 comments
Auction site for mobile pictures sees strong growth
“Fizwoz.com is a new auction website for pictures taken on mobile phones. It has announced ...”
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News summary and digest April 22nd | 16.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
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Relevant...and risky stock photos
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Pixazza starts tagging home, travel and sports images with commercial links
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Corbis introduces £5 pricing
“Corbis is launching new pricing for web and mobile usages. It is matching the pricing ...”
1 comments
News summary and digest April 22nd | 20.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
1 comments
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News summary and digest April 23rd | 10.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
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News summary and digest April 25th | 12.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
1 comments
Become who you are
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Zoonar and Polylooks give money for submissions
“Zoonar  and Polylooks  are giving away money to Stock Photographers that submit images to the two stock ...”
1 comments
Stop43 and Bapla disagree over lobbying approach
“When we published the statement by the British Association of Picture Libraries (BAPLA) about the Digital ...”
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BAPLA Reacts to accusations
“The British Association of Picture Libraries (BAPLA) has reacted to a number of accusations and ...”
1 comments
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News summary and digest April 26th | 20.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
1 comments
Compose your own tune with YouTube clips
“We were impressed with the way Kutiman used unrelated YouTube music video's to create new and ...”
2 comments
Publicis grows 3%, CEO Levy optimistic
“More optimism coming from the advertising industry after the earlier Omnicom numbers. Maurice Levy, CEO for ...”
iPad quickly taking share of readership
“ Wired Magazine reports that the Apple iPad already accounts for 26 percent of mobile devices ...”
1 comments
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Getty Images acquires Rex Features
“Just announced by Getty Images after rumours had been going around for the last weeks: PRESS ...”
2 comments
Online publication turns to print in unconventional move
“Popular website Mashable  has entered a deal with Metro international in a move that goes against ...”
1 comments
News summary and digest April 27th | 22.00
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
1 comments
Labour withdraws offending campaign poster
Google merges Maps with Earth, launches Earthview
“Google is merging its Google maps  and Google earth  applications and calls it Earth view. ...”
1 comments
New York Times streams entire music album with article
“The New York Times  has been experimenting with cross-media on their website. In an innovative ...”
1 comments
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News summary and digest April 28th | 12.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
1 comments
iSyndica celebrates first year and buys Fotomind
“iSyndica, a company that helps photographers distribute, track and promote their images on multiple sites ...”
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Alamy to launch 24/7 newsfeed
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Pixels are destroying earth
“Pixels are attacking earth in this shot movie while nostalgia to the eighties sets in. We ...”
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News summary and digest April 28th | 00.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
Microstock agency Pixamba closes
“Pixamba, a microstock agency that launched in 2009 has closed. Pixamba CEO David Mail made ...”
1 comments
Saving money on photography the easy way
“Stockphotodiscounts.com is a website that aggregates all the discounts on stock photography. Any visitor can submit ...”
Google improves mobile image search
“Google has upgraded its mobile image search. The biggest improvement is the ability to see ...”
Getty Images announces FIFA partnership
“Getty Images announced a two year deal with FIFA,  the international Football governing body,  that includes the ...”
Alamy website relaunch, CEO presentation [video]
“We published our short report about Alamy's relaunch of the website last week. The company ...”
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News summary and digest May 5 | 15.00 gmt
“We're tracking all the sites that matter and will keep you up to date with ...”
May
03
Latest stockphotography newsfeeds and video
“Here in the UK it's a holiday week-end so in order to avoid email overload ...”
Layar adds commercial augmented reality to phones
Magnum, Raymond Depardon exhibition opens
“Magnum presents an exhibition of the first solo exhibition of filmmaker Raymond Depardon. The exhibition ...”
WPP more optimistic, increases forecast
“Advertising group WPP has announced its first quarter results and has increased the forecast for ...”
Photoshelter publishes free blog handbook
05
New record 45 Gigapixel picture of Dubai
“The last time we saw a record-breaking gigapixel picture was some time ago. That time ...”
The unobserved live
The changing creative landscape; press, pause, play
“Press Pause Play is a movie about the changing creative landscape. Watch the preview here. ...”
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Google wins lawsuit over thumbnail images
“Google has won dismissal of a lawsuit in Germany's court that called for the company ...”
Picture Buyers Fair seminar program
“The seminar program for the Picture Buyers Fair 2010 has been announced. The event takes ...”
07
Face.com helps you connect with people through image recognition
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How to deal with streat violence in augmented reality
“After layer, who we posted on earlier this week here's another augmented reality application coming ...”
Porn industry worried about piracy
“This video proves that it's not just photographers and musicians that are worried about copyright ...”
Dealing with the new realities for stock photographers
1 comments
Monitoring your website performance with analytics apps
“Google has opened up its analytics tool for developpers. They can now add applications that ...”
10
Veer paying cash for photo-submissions
“Veer has started a program labelled 'dash for Cash' that pays existing contributors up to ...”
Imagesource reaches cross media production milestone
“Image Source Announces Reaching Fifty Cross-Media Collections PRESS RELEASE Image Source's Cross-Media content is the first product ...”
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Salesforce.com launches wordpress plugin
“Salesforce.com, a customer relationship management system has launched a plugin for Wordpress, the most popular ...”
How will information be organised on the web?
“In this 15 minute short film, Kate Ray explores how the information on the web ...”
Picture sharing service Radar closes
“Radar, a service that enables real-time sharing of mobile phone pictures is shutting down. It ...”
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How to get paid for free content
“Everything costs something and no body wants to work for nothing. This statement of the ...”
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Google logo in 884 pictures
“ A team at Google UK has recreated the Google logo with 884 4x6 pictures. The ...”
Fotolia expands office plugin
“Microstock agency Fotolia is expanding its microsoft office plugin. It will now include HD video, free ...”
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Jobs: Account Executive
“Blend Images – Account Executive Location:          Seattle, WA Status:  Full Time Blend Images is the world’s leading multiethnic ...”
What's a picture worth in 2010? PBF Seminar
“Don't forget to visit our seminars at the Picture Buyers Fair in London. On the ...”
8 Android photo-editing apps
“Social Media website Mashable has published a list of 8 apps for android phones that ...”
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New discounts on photography, music and footage share yours too
“Over the past week we have added a number of great deals to stockphotodiscounts.com, some ...”
YouTube hits 2 billion views a day on fifth anniversary
Paca promotes pacasearch to artbuyers
Footage.net partners with Footagebank
“Footage.net has added 70.00o HD  clips fromFootaebank's collection to its search tool.  PRESS RELEASE New York, NY ...”
Cepic location opened...next is hoping for clear skies
Top 20 trends in 2010
“Trendhunter, a global trend-research community has put the top 20 trends of 2010 in this 6 minute ...”
Getty Images launches stockphotorights.com
“Getty Images has launched a new website for picture buyers. PRESS RELEASE Seattle & London – 17 ...”
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Welcome to picture buyers fair visitors
“Here's a quick welcome for those visiting the Picture Buyers Fair in London this week. ...”
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Picture buyers fair, first pictures
“The Bapla picture buyers fair has ended. The 2 day event took place in a ...”
Alamy introduces new photography scholarship
“Alamy is providing a second scholarship award to support the work of the Young Photographers ...”
Pixamba launches media management system for microstock
“David Mail closed microstock agency Pixamba at the end of April to focus on his ...”
Google gets difficult questions, says it will improve image metadata
“During the 2010 picture buyers fair that took place in London this week, Google's Matt ...”
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Corbis-owned Sygma files for bankruptcy protection
“French photo archive Sygma as filed for bankruptcy protection after a legal battle with an ...”
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Capture releases greenlight feedback from first clients
“Capture has released some feedback on its new Greenlight tool that it launched recently PRESS RELEASE Capture’s ...”
Google TV has launched
“Google has launched its much anticipated Google TV initiative. It's explained in this video. Social ...”
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Getty Images signs four year agreement with Sky News
“Getty Images announced a four year agreement with Sky News PRESS RELEASE Getty Images, Inc., the leading ...”
Shutterstock CFO talks about pricing and competition
“Shuttestock's CFO was interviewed by CFO.com. In the article he addressed the subscription prices, Shutterstock's ...”
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Virtual photography event by PDN takes off
“Photo District News is organising a virtual photography event. The event will not only contain ...”
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13 Reasons to visit the Cepic 2010 congress
“CEPIC attendance is set to beat that of previous years by quite some margin. With ...”
Corbis puts Sygma to rest
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Photographers, please don't make these mistakes!
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Picapp adds Reuters to blogging tool
“Picapp, a plugin that allows bloggers to integrate images with their posts has added Reuters ...”
Google improves search results with image strips
“Google has made changes to its search. You can now see a strip of images ...”
Nature Picture Library launches Wild Wonders of Europe
10 Changes at Fast Media Magazine
“Today Fast Media Magazine has changed its appearance. I hope it's not too much of ...”
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Alamy lowers minimum file size for contributors
“Alamy has announced that it is lowering the minimum file size requirements for contributing photographers ...”
Dutch news agency acquired by V-Ventures
“Dutch national news agency ANP has been acquired by V-Ventures PRESS RELEASE Ownership of the Netherlands national ...”
How abscence of copyright law can help industries
“This presentation by Johanna Blakley makes a case for industries without copyright protection being more successful ...”
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The dictatorship of the wallet
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Alamy teases Getty Images with new searchtool
“Alamy introduces quicker access to cutouts and teases Getty Images in the process. PRESS RELEASE Designers and ...”
Panel at the CEPIC new media conference
“Here's a quick introduction on the discussion that Beate Chelete and I will be leading ...”
What are the trends for photographers income [survey]
“It has become ever more difficult to put a number on size of the stock ...”
1 comments
Apple sells 1 million iPads each month
“Apple has sold 2 million iPads in the first 2 months of the device being ...”
Spiderpic price comparison website adds depositphotos
“Spiderpic, the website that compares prices of identical images on different website has announced it ...”
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Stop motion, high speed and timelapse in one music video
Citizenstock launches 'real people' stockagency
“Citizen Stock launches an agency pictures of real people against white backgrounds. PRESS RELEASE Citizen Stock today ...”
Dream Group Launches Stockfresh.com
“ The team behind Stockxpert and the free images website stock.schng is launching a new microstockwebsite called Stockfresh. PRESS ...”
Impressive time-lapse view of LA streets
“Ross Ching is a graduate from the San Diego university film program. He created this ...”
June discounts and promotions on stockphotography
“I posted a number of new discounts on stockphotodiscounts.com. Some are valid for June only, ...”
03
Are high iPad magazine subscriptions sustainable?
“The discussion whether the iPad will, or will not, save the publishing industry is as ...”
Leading music execs explain why keeping up with change is key
Cepic conference partners with Barretstown charity
“For the first time in the history of the CEPIC conference for stockphotography companies the ...”
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Choosing for the future of stock photography
Alamy newsservice in Beta
“Alamy has announed that it's recently announced website with news images is now in Beta. ...”
Pixamba and Panthermedia combine efforts on media management
“Panthermedia and Pixamba are working together on a media magagement service for picture buyers Microstock agency ...”
Motivating companies and people through purpose
“This great whiteboard animation of the Royal society for the encouragement of arts tackles a ...”
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First automotive corporate magazine on iPad [Video]
“Volkswagen has produced their first first iPad app and its an industry first; an automotive ...”
Platform for image distribution (THP) introduces video
“ The company that runs the Technological Hosting Platform (THP), a platform that allows image libraries ...”
Veer introduces microsoft office plugin
“Veer is introducing a plugin that allow users of  microsoft word and powerpoint to add ...”
Job: Commercial Representative At Magnum Photos UK
“Magnum Photos requires a full time Commercial Representative to work as part of its busy ...”
08
Imagestate launches Addmovi video site
“London based Imagestate is launching a new stockvideo website with 60.000 clips at launch. The ...”
Web 2.0 explained in 5 minutes [Video]
“As posted last week I will be in doing a presentation with Beate Chelette at the ...”
11 essential copyright questions and answers
“Fast Media Magazine's objective is to connect picture buyers and sellers and help them make ...”
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09
Welcoming CEPIC visitors to Fast Media Magazine
“I want to thank all of those that attended the presentation Beate Chelete and I ...”
1 comments
Veer, Superstock and Vivozoom images can now be licensed via ImageExchange
“ At the 2010 CEPIC conference Picscout has announced that it now has over 40 agencies ...”
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Google streetview launches user generated overlays
Cepic 2010 opening speech
“Cepic, the yearly event for the stockphotography industry has had its first day (the second if you ...”
Stockbyte founder introduces new direction: Stockdesign
“Jerry Kennely, founder and CEO of Stockbyte, a royalty free stock photography company that was ...”
6 tips for using free images
“Some time ago we listed 100 free photography sites in the Fast Media Directory. These ...”
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The power of pictures presented
“Zoe Whishaw, who has worked at Getty Images for 17 years and was European Director ...”
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The impact of the digital economy on your business
“In this panel, moderated by Franck Perrier, CEO of IDAOS, a team of industry insiders and ...”
Finding funding for companies
“In this presentation Paul Grant of The Funding Game hosts  this workshop on raising Funds ...”
Picturegroup merges with Elevation Photos
“Picturegroup and Elevation Photos announced a merger that will see Elevation Photos owner Mick Magsino ...”
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Time: Now we can use as much photography as we want
“Time has introduced a development of their iPhone app and shows it in this demo. ...”
Yuri Arcurs on success as a microstock photographer
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BBC Planet Earth series on Footagebank
“Picture buyers can now purchase footage from the BBC "planet earth series" at Footagebank HD. ...”
Crediting images on searchengines now without signup fee [updated]
“ See comments for more information about the service Picscout has decided to start providing their ...”
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Pixolution makes finding images fun [demo]
Why Dreamstime is a fast growing microstock company
Alamy partners with social network site mysomeday
“Alamy is providing a gallery of stock photos to social media site mysomeday. The website ...”
17
Science Photo Library releases rap video
“Here's something you don't see every day; Science Photo Library has issued a showreal, but ...”
Google TV in 3 minutes
“Google TV can seriously change the way we interact with the internet. It also allows ...”
18
New website shows endless stream of anonymous images
“A new website called YeahYeahYeahYeahYeah allows users to upload images from their mobile phone. The site then ...”
Try this if you don't like a touchscreen
“It typing on the touchscreen of the iPad is just not for you, this may ...”
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Weekly tip: Follow it up
“Check out our weekly business lesson provided by 50lessons Sir Gerry Robinson is the former Chairman ...”
1 comments
Using new media in your business [Seminar]
“The annual CEPIC stockphotography conference in Dublin was preceded this year by a day of ...”
Licensing all Flickr photography with Getty Images
Preventing image theft instead of fighting it
“There are a number of ways to find images that are used online without authorization. ...”
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Getty Images launches iPad app
“Getty Images has released an Apple iPad App that allows users to search the entire collection ...”
Cannes advertising festival starts with Young Lions winners
“The Cannes advertising festival 2010 has started and traditionally one of the first events is ...”
How to use imagerights to find your images in 3 minutes
“I was first introduced to ImageRights a few months ago when co-founder Ted vanCleave talked me ...”
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Plainpicture adds staff In London and Hamburg
“Want to share staffchanges at your company? Please send an email to info@fastmediamagazine.com Stockphotography agency Plainpicture ...”
Brand new Fast Media Directory
“Over the week-end I have given the directory for picture buyers and sellers a brand ...”
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The fastest way to understand outsourcing with Jaincotech
“I bumped into the energetic Jazz Mandair of Jaincotech at the CEPIC 2010conference. The company ...”
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Can PixTrakk bring an end to manual usage checking?
“From my work both past and present at Photoshot in the UK I am well ...”
See the difference charity launches with Audio Network support
“Audio Network, the London based production music and effects library  joins a number of companies in ...”
The fun theory has another great winner
“The funtheory has another winner. For 2009/2010 the winner of the award that aims to ...”
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Fotolia changes the way you search for images
“Microstock photography company Fotolia has launched a desktop application that allows users to buy images ...”
It takes time to make a great video
“It's friday so time for a bit of entertainment. In this case, the effort that ...”
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Getty Images announces 2010 'Grants for good' winners
“Getty Images has announced the winners of its $15.000 'Grants for Good' program. The grants ...”
iStockphoto releases iPhone app to search website
“New ways to find images hit the news frequently now. Last week saw the launch ...”
New style stockvideo site launches with Flip camera gifts
“Addmovi, a new stockvideo website and 'turn key' white label solution for stock libraries launched at ...”
Eye ball
Swype saves you time using email and text messages
“Swype is a company that uses multitouch technology that we are now very familiar with ...”
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Huge multitouch wall at Cannes Lions brings future closer
“Here's yet another, huge, way to use multitouch technology. This touchwall by Schematic at the ...”
AlmapBBDO campaign for Getty Images wins bronze Lion
“This campaign by AlmapBBDO won a bronze Lion in the outdoor category at the Cannes ...”
Lightning strikes 3 tallest buildings at once
“Photographer Craig Shimala pointed his Canon EOS 7D at the Chicago skyline during a huge thunderstorm and caught this ...”
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Tracking unauthorised usage is now free with imagerights
“Imagerights, a service that allows photographers to find unlicensed images online has decided to offer ...”
Hotshoe gallery opens Edgar Martins exhibition
Survey finds camera phones are 'no threat to real photography'
“A Yougov study initiated by Polylooks found that camera phones are no threat to 'real' ...”
Getty Images launches localised websites
“Getty Images is launching localised websites that show clients all the international images plus imagery ...”
YouTube collaborates with Guggenheim museum
“YouTube and the Guggenheim museum are collaborating on YouTube Play. You can submit creative work ...”
Jul
01
OK Magazine launches Celebaround application
“OK Magazine has launched an iPhone application called Celebspotter that allows users to find out ...”
Quiz: 20 Questions To Test Your Photo Business Knowledge
If you're not sure about the iPad here are those that agree
“Pete Cashmore, the founder of social media guide Mashable has written about the iPad in his ...”
04
Image Source strengthens cross media product
“London based stock photography company Image Sourceis strengthening its 'cross media' offering through a partnership ...”
Masterfile acquires microstock agency Crestock
“Stock photography agency Masterfile shows it's taking the rapid growth of microstock photography serious  by ...”
Huge crowdshot where everyone can be tagged
Sublime and tragic portraits of Kenyan tribe
“This exhibition of photography by Jehad Nga entitled Turkana is showing in the Bonni Benrubi ...”
123RF launches editorial microstock product
“Hong Kong based microstock company 123RF.com has launched an editorial microstock collection. The company has ...”
1 comments
05
Apple mocked, is it loosing its special position?
A little bird told me
Embed anything lets everyone embed images
“Embed anything is a startup (2009) that allows anyone to embed images on their site or blog. ...”
1 comments
06
Movie pirate websites shut down by ICE
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Making aerial movie with an iPhone
“Here's a cheap and cheerful way of making aerial movies using an iPhone and some ...”
1 comments
Overwhelmed, Ho Hum photos and clients you want to shoot for
07
Survey points to value of retaining copyright and reduced photographers incomes
“The British Photographic council has released a survey that shows that photographers who retain the ...”
2 comments
Google news changes layout and adds options
Mary Evans, founder of Mary Evans picture library, has died
08
Rex acquisition by Getty Images is off
“Getty Images is not proceeding with the acquisition of UK based stock photography agency REX ...”
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Of unintended consequences
Thinkstock introduces image packs.
“Getty Images' subscription business, Thinkstock is introducing imagepacks next to its regular monthly subscriptions. The ...”
Google CEO: Free is better than cheap
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been interviewed by mckinsey quarterly. In the forward looking interview ...”
Film your life on the 24th of July for Ridley Scott project
“Life in a day is a video project with the ambition to record the day ...”
Garbage, the vocabulary of change, and a photographers responsibility
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YouTube increases video quality dramatically
“YouTube has just announced it's further upgrading the quality of the content its users can ...”
1 comments
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Experience augmented reality right here
Publisha helps you publish on 4 platforms
“We frequently highlight new companies that may help to make the life of businesses and ...”
1 comments
Getty Images signs five year Golf agreement
“Getty Images has renewed its contract with Golf organisatio The European Tour. PRESS RELEASE Getty Images is ...”
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Getty Images announces second Golf agreement
“Getty Images has renewed another golf licensing deal, this time with the Ladies Professional Golf ...”
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Veer relaunches website, celebrates with free credits
“Veer, the stockphotography site that was repositioned after the acquisition by Corbis has redesigned its ...”
Google maps adds 45 degree imagery to te experience
“Google maps is further improving its functionality with the addition of additional imagery. The company ...”
PACA announces new board and opens registration
“PACA, the organisation for (stock) photography businesses has announced its new board and is preparing ...”
YouTube grant to improve quality of promotions
“YouTube is not only investing in the technical quality of its movies, the company is ...”
iStockphoto first quarter 2010
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It's official, media and photography break up!
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A blog experiment to bring in more traffic...and customers
First glimpse at Facebook movie trailer
“The tension for the movie about the early days of Facebook; 'The social network 'has been building ...”
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13 answers about legally using images
“I paid for my image; does that mean I can’t be sued? Not necessarily. Even if ...”
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Greek man gets £175.000 from Swedish producer of Turkish yoghurt
“Remember the Greek farmer that sued a Swedish yoghurt manufacturer for putting his portrait on ...”
Power to the pixel event opens for submissions
“ The Pixelmarket has openedfor applications for their october, London based 'power to the pixel' event. ...”
Paul Melcher interviewed by Blip.tv
“Ever wondered what Paul Melcher, author of the (in) famous 'Thoughts of a Bohemian' photography ...”
20
A fatal flaw in the (stock)photography business model?
“From the early days of this website I have been following Demand Media with great ...”
1 comments
21
Infoflows vs. Corbis leads to $20 million judgment
“Stock photography company Corbis faces a $20 million judgment in the end-play of a 3 year ...”
BP gets caught with manipulated photo
Stockfood launches picture and text service
Getty gallery to open new exhibition with film London
“The Getty Images gallery is opening a new exhibition on the 26th of August in ...”
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Adobe shows how to create an interactive magazine
“After seeing how Wired magazine created its popular iPad edition built with Indesign and a number ...”
Content management system Joomla integrates with PhotoXpress
“Clients of content management system Joomla can now use images from PhotoXpress, a business that  is owned ...”
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Monocle does not think print is dead
“Monocle is a young print magazine that comes out 10 times a year. The Editor ...”
Fast Media People connects you with Twitter
“There is a specialist addition to Linkedin and Facebook and it's right here on Fast ...”
Debating the value of giving away free images
“It's not the first time there's been a debate on the value of giving away ...”
2 comments
Masterfile launches image subscription product
“Following the incredible success of Shutterstock and hot on the heels of Getty Images' Thinkstock ...”
Young Photographers Alliance launches mentoring program
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01
Getty Image partners with the Ultimate Fighting Championship
“Getty Images is becoming the worldwide distribution partner of imagery for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.  PRESS RELEASE Ultimate ...”
Corbis appoints Click photos as new representative.
“Corbis has replaced its existing representative with a new one for Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesa and ...”
2010 Paca conference opens for registration
“The annual conference for stock photography agencies organised by the Picture Archive Council of America ...”
02
What constitutes personal use of an image?
“My boss has asked me to find some images for an internal presentation. Do I ...”
New record with 70 Gigapixel picture
“The race for the picture with the most Gigapixels is not over yet. The latest ...”
03
Facebook tagging gets easier
What photography business news would you like to read?
“Tell us what other news you like to read and we will post the feeds ...”
04
How to promote work to Art Buyers
“Art buyer Heather Morton gives tips to photographers that want to promote their work to ...”
Integrating video and text in features
“Photographer William Hereford has created a great demonstration of how to use video and text ...”
Newscorp optimistic about iPad/Paywalls...halves salaries
“I haven't written about paywalls for a while. After 'the big debate' and accusations of ...”
06
Start spotting the biggest threat to your business
“Here's something interesting about human perception. Quite a few people may know the first video, ...”
08
Pixmac strenthens North American presence
“Microstock startuo Pixmac has strengthened its team with the appointment of Simon Raybould as Director of ...”
A new way to support your favourite blogs
“Kachingle is one of two companies that are trying to introduce micropayments as a way ...”
1 comments
Loilo video editing releases more functionality
“Loiloscope is an online video editing tool that is now available as a free trial. ...”
Stock Artists Alliance preserves digital collections
“The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) has become a founding member if the National Digital Stewardship ...”
09
Use this checklist before buying an image
“I published a number of posts on copyright and some of the pittfalls when using ...”
Check out the latest stockphotography discounts
“Regular visitors of Fast Media Magazine will know that it's more than news, views, tips ...”
New people at Plainpicture
“Following the latest additions in the London sales team and the Hamburg creative department, the ...”
iStockphoto launches new website, celebrates with discount
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Fotopedia publishes iPad coffeetable book
Stockphoto veteran publishes Microstock Moneyshots
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iStockphoto launches wordpress plugin
“Microstock company iStockphoto has launched a plugin for bloggers that use the wordpress platform. The ...”
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Alamy to launch iPhone App
“The team at Alamy is preparing for the launch of an iPhone app that will ...”
Photo agency Demotix offers content via Publish2
“Demotix, a UK based editorial 'citizen photojournalism agency' will offer it's content via Publish2, a ...”
Facebook improves photo albums
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Cosmo with first '3D' Cover
Flattr, micropayments for your favourite content
2 comments
Are you ready for textbooks on the iPad?
All the latest picture business news on a single page
“Most visitors of Fast Media Magazine, the picture business guide, check out the homepage and ...”
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Panel adresses the future of stock photography
“The Picture Buyers Fair in London is a distant memory, with new events around the ...”
2 comments
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Stockphotography organisation sees dramatic loss of members
“Stock photography organisation CEPIC has reported on their blog that it has seen a dramatic ...”
The evolution of stock photography: The merging of traditional and micro
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Juxio wants to present images in a new way
“Juxio is a new website that presents images in a different way. The site is still ...”
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German agency Maground previews new, Asian cities series
Did you see this coming? The web is dead
2 comments
Photography agencies challenge, and delay iPad app
“In another article here today I wrote about the Wired coverstory declaring that the web ...”
1 comments
Shutterstock is asking for projects to showcase
“In an initiative called Shutterstock superstar, the photography subscription site is inviting users to send ...”
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Twitpic launches labs to experiment with pictures
“Twitpic, the application that lets users post images on Twitter has launched Twitpic labs. From ...”
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Pure launches new music licensing system
Getty Images replaces CFO
“Getty Images does not often make changes to its executive team but has now appointed ...”
Interactive wall promotes Canadian tourism
“The Canadian tourism board installed large interactive screens in New York Chicago and LA to ...”
2 comments
Amazing 3D projection on Amsterdam Building
“Promoting a new range of LED televisions Samsung has run a series of projection on ...”
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Getty Images publishes book in support of New Orleans
Job: Account executive at Superstock
“Jacksonville-based Stock Photography company Superstock is looking to hire an account executive. THE POSITION This position is ...”
Latest impressive images from Nasa's Saturn mission
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Picture buyers panel confronts challenges
“This is the podcast of the second panel I organised and moderated at the 2010 ...”
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Getty Images launches the Archive Photos collection
“Getty Images has launched a new collection made up of images from the Hulton Archive. ...”
Help us get it right: FREE Directory Listings
“With a listing on Fast Media Directory you will reach a number of objectives and ...”
Music executive about YouTube and music gone viral
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Focal organises business conference in Dublin
“The Federation Of Commercial Audio Visual Companies (FOCAL) is organising a conference that will take ...”
Multitouch screen now thinner than paper
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Young Photographers Alliance awards scholarships
“ The Young Photographers Alliance (YPA) has announced the recipients of their 2010 scholarships. They be ...”
Alamy to celebrate 20 millionth image with chance to get 100% commission
“To celebrate Alamy hitting the 20 million images mark, the company is giving their contributors ...”
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Getty Images headlines Visa pour L'image festival
“Getty Images has made announcements regarding its presence at the Visa Pour L'images festival which ...”
Aperture awards open with $80.000 in prices
“The international Aperture awards, the photography awards with over $80.0o0 in prices is inviting photographers ...”
How to get the most out of Fast Media Magazine
“We hope you feel that our news, opinions and guides here on Fast Media Magazine help you ...”
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Flyerboard allows cheap advertising, with pictures
“A company called Paperg has developed a new advertising tool for small businesses. The company automates ad ...”
Sep
01
Visual Connections event open for registration
“Visual Connections (formerly Picturehouse Marketing US) will be hosting its annual Image Expo at the ...”
Getty Images launches marketing toolkit for contributors
“Getty Images has launched a toolbox that allows contributors to market themselves and drive traffice ...”
Paca introduces speakers for conference
“The Paca Conference that takes place in New York on october 15 to 17 features ...”
Visa Pour L'image, first impressions
“The professional week of Visa Pour L'image, the annual photojournalism festival that takes place in ...”
02
NASA puts images on Flickr
“NASA has started posting images on Flickr where visitors can add comments and keywords to ...”
One step closer to integration of maps with...everything
“New York based Upnext showcases a much more fluid way to use Google maps. It ...”
05
Samsung launches iPad challenger
“After the success of the Apple iPad other manufacturers have been scrambling to launch  competitive ...”
Gatekeepers, Responsibility and Stock Photos
Getty Images announces five grant winners at Visa Pour L'image
“At the Visa pour L'image festival, Getty Images has announced the five winners of their ...”
06
How to get the most out of Visa Pour L'image
“After having been at the Visa Pour L'image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France from tuesday to ...”
Former Getty Images head of creative,Lewis Blackwell, joins Image Source
“My former colleague at Getty Images and past Fast Media contributor Lewis Blackwell has joined ...”
08
Alamy doubles offering, now 20 million images online
“Alamy has doubled the size of its collection and now has 20 million images on ...”
1 comments
iStockphoto changes royalty-rates for contributors [Updated]
“ The changes have now been disected and have led to a big backlash against ...”
New Sales Manager at Picade Photo Agency
“Photo agency Picade, a stock and assignment photo agency owned by its contributing photographers has ...”
1 comments
Pulse shows news on iPad in more visual way
“The Pulse reader is an iPad app that pulls together various newssources and presents them ...”
The everywhere image
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09
A live analytics tool that visualizes how your site is viewed
Confusing road signs in stock photography
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Imagerights focusses on royalty recovery for online copyright infringement
“ImageRights International, the company that uses image recognition technology to find unauthorised usages of pictures ...”
Photoshelter launches 2010 SEO 'Cookbook'
“Photoshelter has launched their 2010 edition of their Search Engine Optimisation guide. The guide is ...”
1 comments
Evil photograpers endanger planes? TSA seems to think so
2009
Aug
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Introducing Fast Media magazine
8 Things to include in your next CV
5 Simple cash saving tips
“Here are five tips from turnaround manager Jurgen Leijdekker (see his profile) that you can use right now ...”
Web 2.0 in 5 minutes
“ A 2007 and ever relevant video by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University. At the ...”
Viral marketing, through dance
“ 14 months in the making , 42 countries and one of the top viewed video's on youtube for this ...”
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Bellwether shows marketing budgets cuts at slower rate
“Q2 2009 Bellwether shows marketing budgets cuts at slower rate The IPA's latest Bellwether survey published ...”
Join the debate in the new forum
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PACA Conference headlines
“Here's the latest press release for the PACA conference Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) is ...”
Lament for a Dying Field - NYTimes.com
“A long article in the NY Times about the state of play in Photojournalism in ...”
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Ad industry not getting any better, but digital is...
“Adage published an interesting further analysis of the state of the advertising industry and points ...”
Imemories secures $6.2 million financing
“Imemories scans personal analogue photography and video for its consumer clients and transfers these into ...”
Dreamstime connects with Facebook users
“NASHVILLE, Tenn. - (Business Wire) Dreamstime.com,  has introduced a new Facebook® application that allows members ...”
Free, cheap and surprising
13
The end of old Media...in a song
Vendor-client negotiation...in real life
“It's not easy out there and there certainly is pressure on prices. In one of ...”
14
Dreamstime decreases royalties
“After the price increase on credits announced in May 2009 Dreamstime is now moving to ...”
Newspapers collaborating to charge for online content
“Journalism online to launch online payment for over 500 newspapers Brand republic reports that more than ...”
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Redundancy in advertising, Lemonade movie
“ Over 70.000 advertising people have been made redundant during the recession. This trailer for the ...”
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Readers digest files for Chapter 11 protection
“PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y., August 17, 2009 – The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (RDA), a global multi-brand ...”
Newspaper Death Watch
“The Newspaper Death Watch website follows the demise of newspapers with lists of newspapers that no ...”
21
Getty Images relaunches Jupiter website
“Getty Images relaunches the Jupiter Images website as an RF only offering and calls it ...”
Free London paper to close after 3 years
“News international has started a 3o day consultation period with the 60 staff at the ...”
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Video to appear in paper magazines
“The first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.The video-in-print ...”
Why not everyone is a leader
“Reasons why not everyone will stand up and be a leader. via Seth's Blog. It’s uncomfortable to ...”
How record labels are changing their business model
Twitter to start charging soon
“Co-founder Biz Stone said the company is in the first phase of rolling out commercial ...”
Anti 'rights grabbing' petition stands at 572 signatures
“The Photolegal petition to review the practice of photography competitions where rights of the content ...”
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WPP interim results: profit down 47%
“WPP reported their interim results and are showing continued weakness despite cost savings including redundancies ...”
Ad supported music players looking for the right model
“This article in adweek describes how online musicplayers are trying to find a viable model ...”
How five magazines are finding new revenues.
“An article by Advertising age on how 5 magazines are finding new revenue streams when ...”
New outdoor medium launched by WPP
“WPP launches a new medium called Schematic touch that could provide opportunities for Stock Media ...”
Legalising the Pirate Bay
Monocle making 'old media' successful
“This article in the Independent explores the success of Wallpaper  founder and columnist Tyler Brule ...”
Doing some firefighting
“We are changing hosts over the coming days. Network solutions was just not cut out for ...”
Changes to newsletter subscription
“For the early adapters amongst you that signed up for our newsletter in the very begining ...”
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Getty Images splitting paparazzi revenues with celebrities
“Photobusiness news and forum has published an article about Getty Images sharing revenues with celebrities ...”
Sep
01
Changing Advertising Summit 2009
“Registration for the Changing Advertising Summit 2009 in London have opened. The summit will take ...”
Havas revenues down 9.2%
“Havas Group reported a 9.2% drop in organic revenue for the second quarter of 2009. ...”
Facebook Exodus gaining momentum?
“While stories about the commercial value of social networking are all around us, some people ...”
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Corbis signs on new photojournalists
“Corbis announced that it has signed several acclaimed photojournalists as new contributors as the company ...”
Google to speak at Paca conference
“Paca announced that Google and Imense will talk at the  PACA Conference in Miami Beach. They ...”
Google book scheme meets more resistance
“Google’s ambitious plans to scan millions of books and make them readable through its search ...”
Satirical story reprinted as fact
“In a world of Fast Media sometimes things go to fast. A Bangladeshi newspaper has ...”
Advertising spend taking hits but may be improving
“NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Nobody ever mistook the first half of this year for a ...”
08
Another magazine charging for online content
“LONDON - The Economist is to charge for news content across its website, mirroring the ...”
09
Getty Images to white label image partner content
“Getty Images is announcing changes to how it treats Image partner content. It will introduce 4 ...”
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Corbis celebrates 20th birthday with exhibition
Photography protest planned in London
“Photographer not a terrorist a website that is campaigning against restrictions to take pictures in public ...”
Share your story in Fast Media Magazine
“Do you have specific business skills you’d like to share with others? Do you create ...”
Pirate Bay may not legalise anytime soon
“The company planning to purchase The Pirate Bay was de-listed from its Swedish stock exchange ...”
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When will Twitter start making you money?
“While Twitter has developed into a Global hype it has not yet made a profit. ...”
Golden Drum festival prepares for take off
“On October 5th the Golden Drum Advertising festival will take place in its usual location of ...”
12
Video with Six Degrees interview
“Minneapolis Ad Agency, Carmichael, utilized New York’s Six Degrees to handle all clearances for the ...”
13
No 'Green shoots' according to Sorrell
“DALIAN, China – Despite signs that the global economy is starting to recover, WPP PLC ...”
New revenue opportunities in lifestyle newsletters
“NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you are a style-conscious young male with a high income ...”
Google to give competitors access to online books
“WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Google Inc. (GOOG) will give its competitors access to the out-of-print books ...”
Internet manifesto gets worldwide attention
“The writers of Germany's top 15 blogs presented their internet manifesto. The 17 articles got ...”
Google developing micropayment platform
“Google is developing a micropayment platform that will be “available to both Google and non-Google ...”
Is your business model working? Stress test advice
“"I believe cost cutting is a strategy. In too many cases, cost cutting is done ...”
Frank Micelotta and Paul Melcher launch Picturegroup
“Frank Micelotta, a leading entertainment photographer and Paul Melcher, the former CEO of REX USA. ...”
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Allvoices; another citizen journalism startup
“Allvoices received $4.5 million in funding in 2007, launched the site in 2008, and is ...”
The end of high-end photography?
CNN to use online campaign to promote channel
“LONDON - CNN is launching a UK marketing campaign to support its new prime time ...”
15
Microsoft launches visual search on Bing
“Microsoft launches a new innovation for their Bing search engine at the Tech50 event. The visual ...”
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A new way to read newspapers, by Google
“Google has introduced Fastflip at the techcrunch50 event in San Fransisco. Fastflip provides an altrnative ...”
500 more sign with Journalism online
“Journalism Online, the company that wants to enable news publishers to make money from their ...”
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The 3 D's of Sales
October discounting by Getty Images and Corbis
“Another month, another set of discounts. This time both Getty Images and Corbis are looking ...”
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Getty Images makes investment in Daylife
“Getty Images announced a strategic investment in Daylife today. Daylife is a leading content services ...”
New Microstock agency, by Deutsche Telekom
“Polylook has started operations in the UK today. Backed by Deutsche Telekom the company claims ...”
1 comments
19% Drop in UK Q2 Advertising spending
“LONDON: Total UK adspend slumped by 19% in the second quarter of this year at ...”
Full circle, now Google will print its digital books
“Google will start printing the digital books it has on file. For now this will ...”
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Calling friends through Twitter
“JAJAH announced the beta launch of its Twitter calling solution. With a JAJAH account Twitter ...”
Lookstat launches new microstock services
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Istockphoto introduces legal protection for collection
“Earlier this week Istockphoto introduced legal protection for all images in its collection. This is ...”
20
How to clear intellectual property; Six Degrees interview
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London digital week starts
“Monday the 21st of September is the first day of the London digital week. This ...”
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New York Times on advertising industry
“I just read this article in the NY Times about the state of the advertisin ...”
Micropayment debate
“Mark Glaser at Mediashift PBS is faciliating a debate between Mike Masnick of Techdirt and ...”
Obama concerned about newspapers
“Saying he is a "big newspaper junkie," President Obama expressed hope on Friday that newspapers ...”
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Large newspapers to start charging for online content this fall
“SAN FRANCISCO - With their advertising revenue drying up, newspaper publishers spent much of the ...”
Demand for IP rights on the increase
“A few days after the publication of the interview with Six Degrees IP on Fast Media ...”
A first glance at interactive billboards?
“Remember the Minority Report? In this Steven Spielberg movie the eyes of Tom Cruise are scanned in ...”
Start selling now! Interview with Andy Vlaeminck
Condé Nast preparing for 25% cost cutting
“Condé Nast is inching closer to slashing costs at its magazines, as editors and publishers ...”
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Picasa introduces facial recognition
“Google is adding facial recognition technology to it's 3.5 release of Picasa. Earlier rolled out ...”
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 ...”
Start taking pictures in your backyard, Gerry Thies
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Email newsletter now daily
“I have been posting a lot of articles on the site and Fast Media Magazine ...”
Shutterstock Acquires BigStockPhoto
“New York, September 23, 2009 –Shutterstock, the world’s largest subscription-based stock photo agency, announced that ...”
Free is the new businessmodel?
“Cnet interviewed Mike Masnick of the popular blog techdirt. He is exploring various ways to ...”
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Don't buy lists, create an audience
“Here's a great post from Seth's blog about how new media create their own audience. ...”
Google back on acquisition path
“Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google told reporters that Google is ready to begin buying up ...”
IREX launching new digital bookreader
Keeping people in difficult times
Entire LIFE Magazine on Google books, including pictures
“Right in the middle of the heated debate about Google's plan to scan countless books ...”
Web convergence, did you know?
“The fourth version of one of te most popular videos about new technology came out ...”
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Corbis running Twitter competition
“To celebrate its 20th anniversary Corbis is running a sweepstakes and has moved the Storied exhibition ...”
After criticism, Google postpones bookdeal
“The judge overseeing Google's controversial agreement with American publishers to digitise millions of books has ...”
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Chris Buck Interview
M&C Saatchi chief positive
“The chief of M&C Saatchi said the recession had not hit the advertising industry as ...”
Improvements to Google search results presentation
Coke plots "aggressive" digital push
“ATLANTA: Coca-Cola, the US soft drinks giant, will adopt a "far more aggressive digital presence" ...”
This year UK digital adspend to overtake television
“LONDON/WASHINGTON: Advertising expenditure levels in the UK will continue to fall until mid-2010 at the ...”
Graphic Design Stock Photography survey 2009
“The yearly Stock Photography survey by Graphic Design USA  and sponsored by Shutterstock is available as a ...”
27
Fighting piracy, Copyright Czar appointed.
“The “copyleft” and the “copyright” are both applauding the presidential appointment Friday of Victoria A. ...”
Giving your products away, the freemium model
“In this short video Chris Anderson, editor in-chief of WIRED magazine and author of the  ...”
First software, now open source cars?
“Now that we are used to open source software (most of this site is based ...”
28
Not everyone likes Twitter
“Soon after, those pangs of envy shifted to cold resentment. How lucky to not have ...”
Google to share Fast Flip ad revenue with publishers
“Google Inc. recently unveiled several initiatives that it says will help struggling publishers make more ...”
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Media Outlook 2010
“Lucy Moses and Katy Bachman, senior editors at Mediaweek published a comprehensive article about the ...”
Who controls the package wins
“This blog post explains why Google Fast Flip is an initiative that Publishers need to ...”
Implementing technology; Abbie Enock about teams
Stock Photography discounts
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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 ...”
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo unite on online ad-approach
“LONDON - The UK's biggest online players, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!, united today to ...”
Daily mail still cutting staff following heavy falls in advertising revenues.
“Today, parent company Daily Mail and General Trust revealed it had axed 200 jobs since ...”
Warner music video's back on youtube
“YouTube said Tuesday that music videos from Warner Music Group Corp. will return to the ...”
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Preparing for your next job
Getty Images introducing social media licensing options
“Getty Images recognizes that our customers need to be more nimble than ever, and our ...”
UK Internet spend overtakes TV
“IAB figures show ad expenditure online up £82m to record market share of 23.5%.Search, classifieds ...”
Online video views at record 25 Billion in August
“Internet tracking firm Comscore releaed their August 2009 data showing that online video reached another all ...”
Google previewing new communication and picture sharing tool
“Google is sharing previews of their WAVE tool with 100.000 users in the following Groups. Developers ...”
Oct
01
New London photography gallery opens next week
Newsy wants to package news online
“With Newsy announcing their Iphone application today I checked out the site of this new ...”
New York times still undecided on online model
“On Wednesday, Sept. 30, Arthur Sulzberger will host his annual “State of The Times” meeting ...”
The wandering photographer
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Global adspend fell further than expected
“Carat, the Aegis-owned integrated media agency, has revised its global ad spend growth forecasts for ...”
Mobile Internet Usage Up
“According to a new report issued by Nielsen, there were 56.9 million mobile Web users ...”
AOP survey: 70% of publishers planning to charge for online content
“The results of the AOP Census survey released today shows that nearly 70% of respondents ...”
6 Ways to improve use of music in advertising
“Josh Rabinowitz, Director of music at Grey Worldwide has written an informative article on Brandweek ...”
Radical overhaul of the music industry needed
“Research firm Forrester proposes a further rethink of the music industry businessmodel by offering consumers ...”
02
Stock Photography deals October 2009
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Bill Gates, Hitler, Einstein in bizarre ad-campaign
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Pirate Bay no longer in Google's search results
“The homepage of Pirate Bay disappeared from Google’s search results Friday, after Google allegedly received ...”
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Brutal market needs new revenue streams
“In the ongoing debate about paying for content online the Guardian talked to the CEO ...”
Omnicom forms digital unit
“NEW YORK: Omnicom Group, the US advertising holding company, has created a new unit responsible ...”
Evening Standard going free and advertising based
“The London Evening Standard is becoming a free newspaper. It will increase the circulation from ...”
Rupert Murdoch against the internet
“ Rupert Murdoch's decission to start charging for online content of his newspapers has received a ...”
Google's competition is increasing
“This businessweek article describes changes in the way people search for, and find information. Companies ...”
05
Charging for (some) online content starts at Times and Sunday Times
“Following the heated debate over the past months newspapers are making the first moves in ...”
China will invest Billions of dollars setting up Media giants
“While Media companies expect revenue growth to come from China over the coming years the ...”
Google CEO on the future of newspapers
“Danny Sullivan, author of the leading blog search engine land hs interviewed Google CEO Eric ...”
Bertelsmann dies, leaving troubled company
“BERLIN (AFP) – Reinhard Mohn, who built Germany's Bertelsmann from a family printing and publishing ...”
2009 Media revenue; bankruptcy and decline
“In this Advertising Age article there is yet more doom and gloom to report. Revenues ...”
Sorell supports Murdochs' pay for content plan
“The Telegraph reports on the latest Speech of WPP CEO Martin Sorell where he supports ...”
Breaking up with the advertiser, video
Magazine publishers plan digital storefront
“Following many discussions and Googles' introduction of Fast Flip  for newspapers, magazines are starting initiatives ...”
Music industry businessmodel finally dead?
“This New York Times column quotes some staggering numbers indicating that the longtail theory might ...”
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A Cambridge team that's 2 years ahead of Google
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Golden Drum advertising festival first day
06
Economist decreases free online content
“In a continuing bid to deal with plumetting advertising revenues in the Media sector the ...”
With books going online piracy becomes an issue
“The debate about free products continues. This time it's about books. With the prospect of ...”
New York Times announcing new way to read the news
“Recognizing that readers access news in many different ways the New York Times is offering ...”
Conde Nast closing magazines
“"Gourmet, the food and lifestyle magazine edited by former New York Times restaurant critic Ruth ...”
Most iPhone apps not used for long
“"Just two thirds of iPhone apps are used more than 90 days after they are ...”
Design Council images go online
“The Design Council has put thousands more images from its slide collection online. The pictures went ...”
Google settles arguments, these companies start them
“The creators of these new engines argue that their goal isn't to answer questions— à ...”
Golden Drum advertising festival day two
Picapp launches wordpress plugin
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If PhotoSketch works it will change the way you work
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07
Dreamstime offering prints
“From the Dreamstime blog: Very soon you'll be able to order posters and canvases from our ...”
Golden Drum Advertising festival day three
Digital reader to be launched by group of publishers
“In the run-up to more content going online and following the fact that more and ...”
Twitter talking about paid for services
“Over the past months Twitter has indicated they may start looking at initiatives to start ...”
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Picscout connects image buyers with copyright owners
08
Globaledit image management launches in UK
Online adspend up in Germany
“Online adspend, excluding search, rose by 16.8% in the first nine months of this year ...”
Cooliris is changing the way we view images
Use social networks for better client retention
“Brands which combine official activity on social media services with paid-for search advertising typically enjoy ...”
Golden Drum Advertising festival day four
“At the evening ceremony the first PR winners in the history of the festival were ...”
Use downturn to displace established players; AOP Summit 2009
“The summit of the AOP (Association of online publishers) has taken place in London this week. Brand ...”
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Plagiarists to pay a price warns Murdoch
“In a speech in China Rupert Murdoch lashed out at those using content on the ...”
Photographers: Don't screw us
“The American society of Media Photographers has started a campaign to fight stealing pictures online. It ...”
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Google’s Schmidt and Brin on paid content
“In a joint speech Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder and Eric Schmidt, its CEO adresses several ...”
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Microsoft, Google may integrate Twitter in search results
“According to sources familiar with the situation–Twitter is in advanced talks with Microsoft and Google ...”
Hotshoe Gallery opening night attracts many visitors
Golden Drum advertising festival last day
Frankfurt bookfair: Digital overtakes print in 2018
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Media sector writes off $200 Billion since 2000
“This article by Gordon Crovitz, one of the founders of Journalism onlines explains why the ...”
Marketing spend falls for eight quarter running, Bellwether report
“The latest IPA/BDO Bellwether survey was published today. It reveals that marketing spend fell for the ...”
Political marketing that made us chuckle
“On speechbreaker you can create your own speech for Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick ...”
Angela Merkel not amused about Google books plans
“Ahead of the opening of the Frankfurt bookfair Angela Merkel has made it clear that ...”
A big head, tiny hips, news travelling fast and an apology
“This is about how Ralph Lauren got itself in trouble as the result of a ...”
Securing a job after the recession
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Paid and on-demand content on both Youtube and Hulu
“In seperate news messages today video sites Youtube and Hulu are reported to be in ...”
Record labels lose, fans and artists win
“In a second article by Jason Feinberg on the future of the music industry he reports ...”
Consumer spending to rise in China
CEO Publicis Groupe moderately optimistic
“PARIS: The global advertising market is continuing to witness a gradual improvement in trading conditions, ...”
Wildphotos, London 23 and 24 October
“Friday 23rd October - Saturday 24th are the dates for the 2009 Wildscreen’s WildPhotos event. It ...”
CEPIC 2010 location and date
“The next CEPIC Congress will take place in Dublin from Wednesday 9th to Sunday 13th ...”
Inside the Leica factory, a photography tour
“Wired magazine visited the Leica factory in Germany and had a look at the 1.800 ...”
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US Internet advertising down 5,3%
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) released the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report ...”
Viewers spending much more time watching video online
“Year-over-year, unique viewers, total streams, streams per viewer and time per viewer were all up. Thi ...”
Users unlikely to pay for online content
“A recent survey sheds some new light on the likelyhood of users paying for content ...”
This will make you reflect on the crisis, superflex movie
“ While the recession appears to be nearing its end and banks seem to be back ...”
More music industry disruption on the way
“In a move that will put further pressure on music businessmodels another startup is set ...”
Copyright versus "the Boston Strangler" of innovation
Animoto's fight against boring slideshows
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Stock Artists Alliance merging with AVA
“The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) announced today that it will merge with the Alliance of ...”
ABC boss versus 'emperor' Murdoch
“ABC managing director Mark Scott has taken a swipe at media mogul Rupert Murdoch's moves ...”
Online marketing with an impact, literally
“  Here's a pretty extreme (and expensive) way to get attention online. It got ours though ...”
Bloomberg buys BusinessWeek
“Goodbye, BusinessWeek. Hello, Bloomberg BusinessWeek. BusinessWeek acquirer Bloomberg L.P. plans to slap its name on the ...”
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Advertising spend falls less than expected
“Bloomberg reports that U.S. advertising spending may fall 1.3 percent next year, less than previously ...”
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 ...”
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New publishing opportunities on iPhone
“As a result of changes made by Apple, publishers will be able to have a ...”
More cuts at Condé Nast
“With more people leaving, this time at Golfing magazine, Condé Nast keeps on making efforts to ...”
Legislation forces radio stations to pay for music
“Bloomberg reports:  "Radio station owners wouldhave to pay new fees to play music on the ...”
C4 programs to appear on Youtube
“In a landmark deal that promises to result in similar deals that merge "old" and ...”
Google says worst of recession Is over
““While there is a lot of uncertainty about the pace of economic recovery, we believe ...”
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Fast Media Magazine news
Connect to information to win, connect to the medium and lose
Picscout starts Image Exchange test group
“After the earlier launch of Image Exchange™ picscout is now inviting users to work with the ...”
1 comments
Frankfurt bookfair photogallery
19
A novel way to sell camera's
“ Nikon used the unconventional duo Helicopter Boyz to promote the new Nikon Coolpix camera. The ...”
Magazine readers awaited with great anticipation
Clients will not pay for content online
“Research by Nielsen in Australia points to behaviour of newspaper readers that will not be ...”
Massive old media restructuring coming
“John Malone, chairman and controlling shareholder of Liberty Media Corp., said Friday that he expects ...”
Murdoch wants to charge Google
“In another speech Murdoch keeps defending charges for content through paywalls on his newscorp publications' ...”
Global adgrowth downgraded to -9.9%. Internet advertising up
“Zenithoptimedia has downgraded ists advertising spend forecast for 2009. Here's the text, for the full ...”
1 comments
Introduction to a changing music industry
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Online advertising stabilizing, offline still weak.
“Here's our regular update about the advertising industry. Similar to past updates the big advertising ...”
Nook, the new E-Reader from Barnes and Noble
Shutterstock to legally guarantee all files
“Following Istockphoto's announcement in September Shutterstock announced today that it will legally guarantee every file ...”
Will it Stick? Who will pay or content and how
Find contacts by mapping your connections
“7 Degrees has launched a product that creates maps of your connections to people and ...”
How to grow by sticking to your niche
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Newspapers with record online users while lay-offs continue
“In a further sign of readers switching from paper to websites to read their daily ...”
Faced with postal strike, Mediaweek goes online
“This is how Mediaweek is dealing with a big postal strike in the UK. It ...”
Google wave by Samuel L. Jackson
“Google Wave is a new communication tool that can replace some of the current technologies ...”
1 comments
Getty Images and Corbis explain redundancies
“Reacting to various articles and blogs about changes and redundancies in both companies I contacted ...”
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Six stock photography trade associations start collaborating
“On october 16, 2009, six trade associations representing more than 50,000 photographers as well as ...”
1 comments
Invitation to join the forum
Star Wars uncut, helping to recreate a classic
“Here's an interesting social Media experiment; Star Wars uncut is recreating Star Wars episode one A ...”
26
Newspapers not catching wave of increased spending
“The New York times uses the latest media data to show that, while the internet ...”
Don't enter the market at the end of the lifecycle, says Photoshelter CEO
“Allen Murabayashi, CEO of Photoshelter, a provider of portfolio websites, photo sales and archiving tools for photographers, ...”
New photographer owned photo agency opens
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27
Google will offer music service
“Google is to embark on a music initiative that will find many traditional music companies ...”
Are you ready for huge changes in Media content creation?
Google to launch Social search
“Shortly after Bing, Microsoft's search engine, announced it would integrate Twitter and Facebook in their ...”
Conde Nast reorganises, cuts continue elsewhere
“After a number of rounds of redundancies and magazine closures ( here, here and here) ...”
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Microstock service offering free trials
Free paper London Lite to close
“2 months after the London Paper closed and barely a month after the Evening standard ...”
Newspaper circulation continues to plunge
“While newspaper circulation continues to come down Forbes magazine is cutting jobs. This follows a ...”
Music on MSN via myspace
Google has launched similar search
Twitter captures first picture of Bay Bridge incident
“While Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone was commenting on how he was happy not having to ...”
Follow up on Demand Media article
“After publishing the article: " Are you ready for huge changes in media content creation" ...”
Global Consumer Confidence Bounces Back
“Consumer confidence is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Nielsen Global Consumer ...”
After Bing and Google, Yahoo goes real time
“Microsoft's Bing and Google launched their search innovations over the past weeks, through social search and ...”
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Interpublic Group revenues down 11.8%
“Following annoucements by  Publicis and M&C Saatchi the Interpublic Group announced a 11,8% decrease in year on ...”
When 140 characters is just not enough, Twitter competition
“While Twitter continues to grow, has just secured another round of investment of $100 million and ...”
Key content will be coming from amateurs soon
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Member falls out with association of picture agencies (updated)
Where would content be without links
“Jeff Jarvis is the author of What Would Google Do? He  is also associate professor and ...”
Microstock 'superstore' adds Dreamstime to product line up
From zero to hero on YouTube
“If you thought you could put something on YouTube and stay anonymous here's Kutiman to ...”
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Nov
02
More layoffs at magazines
“Last week ended with more people being made redundant at leading magazines. After reporting earlier layoffs ...”
1 comments
WPP 2009 Third Quarter Trading Update - WPP
“WPP, reported their results over the third quarter and the first nine months of 20009. ...”
Fotolia releases Microsoft Word and Powerpoint add-ons
Federal Communications Commission about dramatic Media changes
“Steve Waldman has been appointed to oversee the Federal Communications Commissionto in the US oversee ...”
George Logan London photo exhibition
“On the 22nd of October award winning photographer George Logan unveiled his Red Road exhibition ...”
1 comments
Pirate Bay ordered to shut down
1 comments
Google and Imense on visual search at PACA 2009
1 comments
03
Google starts to come under attack
“In the coming months Google will face a series of challenges as its rivals and ...”
Columnist quits over paywall
8 Image search engines that don't license images
“In our article about Imense we touched on their Picture search service that uses visual ...”
Illegal downloaders spend more on music
“People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than ...”
Angela Merkel versus Google, round two
Stock Photography deals and discounts November 2009
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Getty Images will distribute Bloomberg Photos
“Getty Images, Inc will give its customers access to the entire archive of BLOOMBERG PHOTOS™ images. ...”
Alamy down 30% in third quarter
“Alamy announced their results for the third quarter of 2009. Revenue was down 30% compared ...”
1 comments
Redundancies at Time Inc and Microsoft
“In a sign that the recession is not behind us yet Time inc is having ...”
Is this the iTunes for magazine content?
How Content Creators Can Benefit From Piracy
1 comments
06
Livebooks lowers upfront cost and extends options
“Livebooks  has secured $5 million in funding from strategic and private investors to allow the ...”
Publishers: Work with the internet, not against it
1 comments
How to use a YouTube accident as great advertising
“The original security video of a 62 year old lady doing a rather unfortunate parking ...”
1 comments
Advertising agency leaders too old to innovate
Emap and Medianews raising paywalls
Murdoch delays charging for content online
“Murdoch had previously outlined plans to erect pay walls around his vast newspaper empire by ...”
07
Creating and sharing news on Google
“While Newsnow and the NLA continue their battle of words Google continues to roll out ...”
Getty Images issues call for Flickr artists
“Getty Images partnered with Flickr about a year ago and is now issuing a formal ...”
09
Call for photographer experiences
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Free London newspaper to close on Friday 13th
“After the initial consultation period that started a few weeks ago it has now been ...”
Shooting stock video 101
New google online magazine reader
“Google has added functionality to Google books that will allow users to browse  through scanned magazines.  This comes after scanning ...”
WPP CEO: More old media must go
“Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP said at the Ad:Tech expo and conference in New ...”
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Crowd sourced music video aimed at the charts
Photo associations too late to join Google books settlement
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What is the 'Interestnet' and will they block Google?
“Jon Miller, The Chief Digital officer of Newscorp, a company more known for its advocacy ...”
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How to land a book and movie deal through Twitter
“When I first started following the updates of Justin, a 29 year old guy who ...”
Google acquires Admob for $750 million
“On the 7th of November Google has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ...”
Linkedin and Twitter to work together
“Twitter and Linkedin will create connections between the two systems, Linkedin announced today. This will be ...”
New microstock site launches in Brazil
What makes photographers successful?
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Music Video with a social media element
“I've shared a number of video's here that took user generated content to create new ...”
Getty Images grants to continue
“Getty Images announced that its two major grant programs, Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography ...”
More campaigns to make people happy
5 steps to indirect sales growth
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It's here; all digital photography knowledge in one place
“dpBestflow is a website and several other media containing all the resources a digital photographer could ...”
Bing to add Wolfram | Alpha to results
“Wolfram | Alpha may look like a regular search engine, but it's not. It it generates ...”
Eurobest Advertising festival starts 27th of November
“The Eurobest advertising festival will kick of in Amsterdam this month on the 27th of ...”
5 more steps to indirect sales growth
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Google modifies books settlement
“After the earlier suspension of the decission on the Google books settlement the company has ...”
Word of the year 2009
What makes photographers successful #2
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CEPIC Reacts to revised book settlement
“CEPIC, which,  in an apparent rebranding this week is calling itself the 'centre of the picture ...”
Prix Pictet video released
“Monocle magazine has made a video of the Prix Pictet that took place at the end ...”
Clash of the Titans
Insider says: Music can be free
“Tom Delonge is the guitar player in the pop-punk band Blink-182. He's also an unlikely businessman ...”
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Microsoft may partner with Newspapers to hit Google
“Microsoft is doing everything it can to take marketshare from Google with their Bing search ...”
Latest Google image search innovation
The highest high def film in the world
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Car magazines make images available for licensing
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Consumers want access not ownership
“This article on Paid Content adresses changes in consumer behaviour. Its author argues that the ...”
Admob launches interactive mobile advertising
“About a week since Admob was acquired by Google  for $750 million it announces an interactive video ...”
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Why Google has to pay up or give up
Why marketleaders won't recognise innovation
“Leading blog Techdirt publishes regular, 2 minute whiteboard presentations (sponsored by UPS). This one about innovation ...”
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Will the Apple tablet change everything?
“The expectations for the new Apple tablet are enormous. Some think that without proper electronic ...”
The twitter for 2010?
What makes photographers successful #3
Earthday call to action
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Media Week to close after nearly 25 years
“In the same week that Mediaweek is to close after 25 years a number of ...”
Esquire's innovative magazine experience
“Esquire magazine is experimenting with new media applications in their 'Augmented reality' edition. In this ...”
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New magazine with articles from bloggers
“The Blogpaper has launched on friday in London where it was distributed at four underground stations. ...”
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Cepic's 2010 Stadium location
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Anti piracy law leading to increased music sales?
Google makes another advertising acquisition
“Google, following their announcement some weeks ago is acquiring California startup Teracent. Google has been trying to ...”
Panthermedia lowers pricing up to 85%
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Corbis channel team shares tactics
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Magazines and Newspapers continue redundancies
“Going into the last month of 2009 the redundancies at Newspapers and magazines are not ...”
Print versus digital; iPhone spoof
“To celebrate its' 40th birthday the Sun newspaper has made this spoof commercial on the ...”
Imprezzeo visual search and Woodwing
Three UK newspapers with over 30 million unique users
“Guardian.co.uk remained the most popular UK newspaper website last month with more than 31 million ...”
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Hulu and YouTube to try paid subscriptions
“After relying on advertising for revenues both YouTube and Hulu are now in talks to ...”
Eurobest advertising festival winners
Save money on Stock Photography
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Nearly 90 journalists killed this year
“A clear reminder that in a World where Media become more virtual some things still depend ...”
What can we learn from Lily Allen?
Jonathan Klein article on World AIDS day
“On World AIDS day on the 1st of November Jonathan Klein, the CEO of Getty ...”
Google improves image search results
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Huffington post owner strikes out at old media
Magazines will buy more photography next year
“Check out this video and then consider what this means for the exponential amount of ...”
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Photographer Frans Lanting signs with Alamy
“Alamy is now representing images by the award winning Frans Lanting, hailed as one of ...”
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Queen issues warning over paparazzi photos
“The Queen has issued a strong warning to newspapers not to publish paparazzi pictures of ...”
Vidque wants to clarify online video
“VidQue is a new company that started earlier this month. The company enables users to save ...”
December starts with more jobcuts
“The first week of December another series of redundancies and closures of magazines were announced. ...”
Not a cat in hell's chance on charging for online content
“The CEO of Future Group Stevie Spring does not agree that raising paywalls for general ...”
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Using your cameraphone to search Google
“Google has today launched Goggles,  a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using ...”
Photography members club launching in London
Demotix CEO on rescuing journalism
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Google adds annotations to analytics
“Everyone that uses Google analytics to power their website reporting understands the depth of the ...”
Streaming your images to a clients Iphone
Advertising downturn to slow in 2010
“Zentith Optimedia has released its advertising outlook for 2010. It points to the Global advertising ...”
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New online photography marketplace; Focalpop
“Focalpop is a new online marketplace for photography. It works like an inverse auction where imagebuyers ...”
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Five Partners working together to charge for online content
“After long talks about monetizing online content companies are starting to make moves to collaborate ...”
Google Earth now showing images with maps
Google launches all important real time search
“We've been a bit overwhelmed with Google news this week. First there was Google Goggles then ...”
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More good news for advertising spend
“Earlier this week Zenith Optimedia reported that the advertising downturn is slowing. This new Report ...”
Fast Media Magazine news
“It's been a crazy week for Fast Media Magazine. For starters, our hosting company got ...”
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Veer marketplace launches protectionplan
“Following various announcements from other Microstock companies, Veer has announced the introduction of a new ...”
Snaphaven uses bankvault and army bunker to protect images.
“Swiss Data Group announced the launch of SnapHaven, an online photo storage site that guarantees ...”
Imense makes improvements to Annotator product
Unique Egyptian photography by Sandro Vanini
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Getty Images preparing for Olympic games
“Getty Images has released more details about their involvement in the 2010 Vancouver Winter game. As ...”
Online video viewing reaches record levels, again
“Online video is still on the up. Comscore released data showing that more than 167 million ...”
Tablets come closer but publishers are getting cold feet
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More great savings available on Fast Media Magazine
“We've just added a few more great discounts to our list and booklet. Both Getty ...”
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Twice the photo storage for a quarter of the price
“When we reported on Snaphaven yesterday it sparked a small discussion on linkedin about the ...”
Pacasearch goes to beta and looks for volunteers
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Twitter business application in testing
“Twitter has made it clear it is in no rush to start making money. It ...”
NewsNow pulls links from paid service
“In the debate about paid content and the role of content aggregators Newsnow has been ...”
428 magazines closed in the US in 2009
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Internet advertising declining in third quarter
“The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) announced that the Q3 ’09 internet advertising ...”
Are bigger libraries the answer to pricing pressures?
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Fast Media Magazine photography special
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Paramount to start selling movie clips directly
“Paramount Pictures has created a service that will sell clips of its movies to companies and, ...”
Fast Flip adds more publications to its service
“Three months ago Google launched Fast Flip, a new way to look at articles online. ...”
Is Teux Deux the simplest "to do" tool?
YouTube wants to compete with cable TV
“YouTube  has been exploring various ways to show full length programs next to its user ...”
Disney to Sell Comics on digital devices
“Walt Disney Co., the world’s largest media company, will start selling comics to users of ...”
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Google books loses in French court
“After the earlier setback for Google's plan to scan millions of books a Paris court ...”
The two largest pictures in the world
“The two largest spherical pictures in the worlkd were launched by two different companies. 360Geocities ...”
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Another look at the future of magazines
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Photography now showing up in car navigation
Mobile devices to become biggest internet connector
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Vimeo sued by EMI over music in video's
Photobucket and Ontela to Merge Operations
“Photobucket.com and Ontela, a provider of imaging services for wireless carriers announced that the two compamies  will merge ...”
Reading over the holidays
“Thanks for checking out Fast Media Magazine regularly. Over the holiday periods there will be ...”
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Village People threats over Jamie Oliver advert
“In the first issue of our online magazine I reported on the importance of clearing ...”
2010 adspend to fall less than expected
“A recent report allready pointed to a small recovery of advertising spend in 2010 while another ...”
A few more days of great Stock Photography deals
“For anyone finalising the last projects of 2009 there are 5 more days left to ...”
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Google goggles image recognition update
“When I reported on Google Goggles a few weeks ago it was clear that this ...”
Citizen journalism on YouTube
Movie industry sees record visitors
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5 essential sites for Photographers
“Social media site Mashable has published a list of 5 sites they feel are essential ...”
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Every National Geographic since 1888 on one hardrive
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