Northfoto, a stock photo agency based in Budapest, Hungary, has penned a deal with Jupiter Media to represent three of its paid subscription services (Clipart.com, Comstock Complete and Jupiter Images Unlimited) to editorial and creative clients in Hungary and Romania.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at April 28, 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)

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.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at January 23, 2008 | Comments (0)

The Norway-based micro-stock web-site Crestock has upgraded its web-site, adding several features for both buyers and contributors of images.  On the buyer side, the company has added a quick roll-over preview feature and advanced search features such as the ability to find other images with the same models in a given image, or images by the same photographer and an overview of recently viewed images so one can easily locate an image from a previous search.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at October 22, 2007 | Comments (0)

Ten months ago the fledgling micro stock subscription service (launched in 2003) was proud of achieving the major milestone of ‘1 Million Images’. Little did they know that due to a growing awareness of microstock and subscription licensing the collection would double in Less than one year; exceeding two million images. In fact the company has stated that the collection is growing at a rate of approximately 25,000 images per week. This growth has been realized despite the company’s claim that less than 40% of the images submitted meet the companies standards to be added to the collection.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at June 27, 2007 | Comments (0)

Corbis has become the last of the big three to enter the micro-stock business with the beta launch of SnapVillage.com.  Rather than purchase one of the existing micro-stock sites as Jupiter and Getty did, Corbis has developed its own micro-stock site in-house.  Having built the site from the ground, up, Corbis has included unique pricing and purchasing features that will set it apart from other micro-stock sites.

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Posted by Chris Ferrone at June 25, 2007 | Comments (0)

In order to build a library of celebrity images the subscription based micro-payment site Shutterstock is taking matters into its own hands by using its customer service reps to help its 60,000+ photographers obtain press passes. The company is targeting red carpet events such as film premieres, award shows, concerts or political rallies where it plans to leverage the Shutterstock name to obtain the credentials in exchange for exclusive rights to sell the images created at the event. It is not clear yet whether credentials will be granted and the decision will surely be made on an event-by-event basis. Shutterstock appears to be the first micro-payment stock photography site to aggressively pursue celebrity content.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at June 05, 2007 | Comments (0)

Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) has announced that it has acquired Scoopt, a pioneer in marketing eyewitness images (citizen photojournalism) to mainstream media outlets. Scoopt was launched in 2005 and has gained recent notoriety when it supplied images to the media of the tragic Manhattan plane crash that killed New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle in October 2006 and coverage of the fierce January 2006 storms in the U.K., which brought devastation and disruption to large parts of the country.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at March 12, 2007 | Comments (0)

Each year the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) selects one person in the industry to receive its Picture Professional of the Year award. For 2006 ASPP has selected Niki Barrie who has also served the organization as the editor of the organizations quarterly publication, The Picture Professional since 1992.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at December 08, 2006 | Comments (0)

The Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) has announced the launch of a new online directory tool called PACAdex (currently in is in beta testing) for those planning to attend the PACA International Conference October 20-22, 2006 in Key West Florida. PACAdex, developed by Idée Inc, is essentially an online business card listing of all conference participants including photos to help members network and identify each other at the conference.

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Posted by Brent Phelps at September 14, 2006 | Comments (0)