ITN Source appoints Neil Meadows as UK Sales Director
ITN Source, a leading provider of stock footage from the UK has announced the appointment of Neil Meadows to the post of Sales Director. Meadows will start at ITN Source in April and will be responsible for ITN Source’s sales operation, primarily in the UK. Previously Meadows served as the Senior Commercial Director for Chellomedia, the content and technology division of cable operator Liberty Global Inc. Neil has also held business development and sales management roles at BBC Technology, BSkyB, Cable and Wireless and Meridian Broadcasting.
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Newscom, a leading provider of text and visual content, has announced that it is now offering its subscribers online access to broadcast quality video from the international news agency Reuters making this the first major news agency to offer broadcast quality breaking news footage online in the U.S.
Seeing fast growth in the market for on-line video advertising, Thought Equity Motion (TEM) has created a collection of video clips covering related themes to allow for faster and less expensive production of video ads for on-line distribution. TEM’s Storyline Collection covers topics such as politics, health and medicine, small business, seniors and real estate. Clips feature the same models at various stages in a series of related events, allowing creative directors to weave complete stories with beginning and ending scenes that relate to each other visually.
German stock photographer Robert Kneschke has put together a nice behind-the-scenes presentation of a stock photography shoot. 
This presentation entitlted 'Masters of Photography' was posted to on youtube by ilayrock. The presentation does a nice job of comparing older photography from such legends as Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Yousuf Karsh, Etc... with a new generation of photography featuring popular pieces from deviantart.
Recently Kyle MacRae the CEO of Scoopt, an agency specializing in marketing the work of amateur/citizen photojournalists, was interviewed on CNN by Jonathan Mann. During the interview MacRae highlights examples of images sold by Scoopt and the potential revenue that may be earned with your cell phone camera. Mann asks the question “Is this going to turn anyone with a cell phone into a member of a lurking hoard of people chasing celebrities on the off-chance they might be able to get a shot just like professional paparazzi?” MacRae’s response “in 18 months of business we simply haven’t seen it.”
