The London-based provider of  still and video stock imagery, Imagestate Media, has launched a new web-site which offers a single price of  39 British Pounds (and US$79 or Euros 59) for any image or video clip.  The price covers a one-year license for on-line use only.  The web-site promotes the offer with the slogan, “One year Web usage. One Size, One Price.”

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at May 01, 2008 | Comments (0)

Inmagine’s micropayment site 123RF.com has announced the launch of a new mid-stock line called EVO images. The company has invited select contributors to submit up to 20 images a day for the new collection to be offered for download via the company’s credit system ranging from 5 - 160 credits per image (credits can be purchased at a cost of .70 - $1.00 each depending on volume). Images from the EVO line will be identified in search results with a small EVO logo underneath each thumbnail.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 30, 2008 | Comments (0)

JupiterMedia CEO, Alan Meckler has announced on his blog that the company has launched a new subscription site for clip art images called Clip Art Connection. The new site, (the 12th subscription site for JupiterImages), features a collection of more than 1 million unique images with subscriptions as low as $4.95 per week. For customers who crave more content the company also operates a more robust Clipart.com subscription site featuring over 10 million images with subscriptions starting at $15.95 per week.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 22, 2008 | Comments (0)

A UK-based company has taken the micro-stock model to an extreme even beyond what many consider to be the extremely low prices of most micro-stock companies.  Free-Stock-Photos.co.uk (FSP) offers use of its images free of charge.  Well, not exactly.  The web-resolution files can be used only in exchange for crediting and providing a link to FSP.  Uses of larger files do cost a fee, comparable to micro-stock fees for equivalent sizes.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at April 21, 2008 | Comments (0)

Jacksonville Florida based, a21, the parent company of SuperStock, and ArtSelect, has announced the launch of a new micro-payment/mid-stock site called Media Magnet. The new site features a mix of royalty-free content from both commercial image collections and user-generated micro-stock photography. The company states that MediaMagnet’s concept is simple: relevant, fresh content and a simplified search at affordable pricing.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 18, 2008 | Comments (0)

The San Francisco-based low-priced (micro) stock photo company, LuckyOliver (LO,) has announced it will close its doors.  In a post on LO’s blog site on April 15, the company’s founder, Bryan Zmijewski, said the web-site will close as of May 15, 2008.  He cited a lack of financial resources to fund growth as the principal reason for the decision to cease operating the business.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at April 16, 2008 | Comments (0)

iStockphoto, has announced a partnership with CreateAds.com, a self-service ad-creation tool used by Small businesses in the UK to create newspaper ads. Users of the service will now have direct access to more than 2.6 million images from iStockphoto to suit their specific advertising needs. CreateAds.com works with publishers who produce 1,800 weekly and daily publications. Combined, these publications publish approximately 1 million ads per month, one-third of which incorporate photography. According to John Reid, Chairman of The Newspaper Society, “It’s hard to create a bad looking ad using this system”.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 10, 2008 | Comments (0)

The marketing executives at the Corbis-owned micro-stock business, SnapVillage, have come up with a promotional scheme that is bound to attract interest among their target market and provide a few good laughs in the bargain.  Encouraging designers to “forget that pesky ‘client approval’ thing for a change,” the company has announced a fake ad contest.  Anyone who wants to participate can simply create their own ad for a fictional client using a free or watermarked image from SnapVillage.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at April 09, 2008 | Comments (0)

The micro-stock company Dreamstime has established a partnership with a leading photo agency in South Korea to build its access to that market.  The South Korean agency, ImageClick, has launched a separately branded, local-language web-site, i22.com, through which it will make Dreamstime’s entire image database available to South Korean customers.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at April 07, 2008 | Comments (0)

Getty’s micropayment product, iStockphoto, the first and largest of the micro-payment sites with an image licensed every 1.4 seconds, has announced that it will be launching a subscription service to allow open access to photos, illustrations, and footage, for a period of 3, 6 or 12 months. The company is currently in private BETA testing of the new service and has declined to release information about the pricing and terms of the service except to say that Packages will start for as little as $96/month. Other companies offering similar subscription services include Shutterstock, SnapVillage and Stockxpert.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 04, 2008 | Comments (0)