French Advertising Group PublicisGroupe has released its full 2009 results and thereports are mixed. Organic growth for the company was -6.5% but in a sign of a changing environment, digital services were up 7.1%. They now account for 22.4% of total revenue. The Group also pointed out that the fourth quarter saw an improvement and [...]
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Publicis revenue falls short in 2009

Browsing the internet on Blackberryhas always been a bit of a frustrating affair due to the slow loading speeds. The company now says it’s resolved this problem by making changes to its browser.
As many business users are on blackberry’s this will help clear the way for media rich applications to find an audience on this [...]
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Blackberry getting up to speed, literally

A number of changes have been announced in the stock photography industry in the first monts of 2010. First there was Veerwho said they will effectively merge royalty free and microstock images on veer.com. Then there was Getty Images with the launch of their subscription model Thinkstock. Today it’s back to Corbisas they introduce changes [...]
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Corbis simplifies rights managed licensing model

Blend Images is a stock photography agency that specializes in producing ethnically diverse business and lifestyle imagery. It has just announced it’s launching a new value collection of royalty free images called Boost. The goal is to continue to provide imagery to clients with tightening budgets. Blend calls the collection a “high quality image option [...]
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Blend Images launches new photography collection

Photographers that host and manage their collections on Photoshelterwill, from now on, automatically be added to the PicScout Image IRC (index, registry and connection platform).
Once included in PicScouts ImageIRC, PhotoShelter photographers images will be identified by PicScouts ImageExchange add-on which populates an icon on images wherever they are used online. This universally recognized icon provides [...]
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Photoshelter integrates Picscout for its photographers

One of Google’s engineers teams have come up with a projectthat uses imageson amodified a video player to play sequences of Street View shots in sync across three screens. Check out how the station makes you flyacrossEarth andzoom into streetlevel to check out details.The project isa Google 20% timeproject. It’s called Liquid Galaxy and allows [...]
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Use pictures to fly across the real world

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Taylor Davidson finds himself at the intersection of photography, social media, business development and economics. His thoughts on where the stock photography business might be going and how to stay around for the ride.
Social Media Expert/Photography Geek Taylor Davidson Taylor began our recent conversation, All businesses have a life cycle, including creative businesses. There is [...]
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Photographers; be a hub | Taylor Davidson

Before we kick off the week with more news and articles I wanted to take the opportunity to inform you about the big changes we’ve made over the past weeks. I haven’t done this in a while so there’s a lot to report. I hope you’ll like the improvements
New authors, better content
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Record companies are still struggling with new business models. This time it’s music streaming Spotify that is at the receiving end. While companies like Univarsal speak postively about the future of the service WarnerMusic is struggling to see the point.
Record label Warner Music has said it will stop licensing its songs to free music streaming [...]
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Music streamer Spotify deserted by Warner Music

I get asked that question a lot, but it is really the wrong question. Despite all the gloom and doom, despite the declining RPIs, and despite the glut of images in the market, there are still photographers making a good livingand considerably more. The question, then, is; are you willing to do what it takes [...]
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Can I Make A Living With Stock Photography?

As the photography industry continues to feel the effects of the recession, Alamy is offering some good news with the announcement that it paid out over 8 million to its contributors in 2009.
Despite a tough trading year, the worlds largest online stock photography site was able to produce a healthy income for its image providers. [...]
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Alamy reports good news for photographers

Picscout/Image exchangeis not the onlysolution thatintendsto make image licensing easier. Fotomoto is another company that aims to change the playingfield with a fresh solution to the proces of image licensing. Like many innovations the company was started by people outside the stock photography industry. Fotomotois the brain child of techno wiz, CEO and founder Ahmad [...]
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Is Fotomoto a threat to traditional stock agencies?

Here’s a video of one of the first magazines that publishes on the Apple iPad. Interview magazine. Interview magazine, founded by Andy Warhol40 years ago, celebrates its anniversary with an iPad edition. With this edition it wants to re-affirm the innovative nature of the magazine. The iPad version shows of the imagery in the magazine [...]
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One of the first iPad Magazines is launched

Looking at pictures from the 2001 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center remains a surreal experience. These images show the scale of the disaster through the eyes of the photographer in the police helicopter on the day.
ABC News recently obtained these images after filing a Freedom of Information Act request in 2009 with the [...]
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New 9/11 2001 police helicopter images released

With a major investment in time, planning and costs, Action Plus, accredited by the British Olympic Organization and International Olympic Committee (IOC) are in Vancouver to capture all the action of the Winter Olympics. The events, mostly held in Vancouver and the Whistler locations, will be photographed by direct staff photographers and beamed back from [...]
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Actionplus reporting from the Winter Olympics

We wrote about Demand Media a few months ago. The New York Times has published an article about the company that’s changing the way media content is created. With return on investment for the creation of generic content declining fast it’s important to watch this company and its similars. Like people in the interview it [...]
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How much do photographers need to fear this company?

The launch of a new stock photography agency has sparked a debate on Microstockgroup. Stockxpose launched in beta on the 6th of February 2010. Upon exploring the site several members of the forum found images that had been isubmitted under wrong names without permission of the rights holders. Some people called the site a scam [...]
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Stockxpose, new microstock site or illegal activity?

Online advertising has been gaining market-share for years now. Unfortunately for stock photography companies marketing spend has been shiftng online, to search which is completely free of images. With marketing spend moving from high priced print to low priced online uses and search, creators of photography have struggled to keep revenues up.
In a pay per [...]
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How can stock photography benefit from display-ad growth?

The D&AD in the UK has announced it’s date for the New Blood exhibition. It is being held between Thursday 24 June and Tuesday 29 June at the Truman Breweryin London Shoreditch. The theme of the even is networking. New Blood is a graduate recruitment event for would-be creative practitioners. Last year the event attracted [...]
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D&AD New Blood exhibition dates confirmed

Shannon, I know you as a top stock shooter and as President of Stock Artists Alliance. I also know that you have done many large produced shoots both here and abroad. You have won a raft of awards from Communication Arts Photography Annual to PDN to Print and even to the Addys. Can you fill [...]
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Interview: Shannon Fagan, SAA President and photographer

Shannon Fagan is seemingly everywhere that stock photography is discussed. (See John Lunds interview). This isnt because Shannon is a shameless self-promoter but because he works hard at his craft, gives back to the community of photographers and is an articulate and forward thinking guy. Like many in the business today Shannon is spending a [...]
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Following John Lund interview, tips from Shannon Fagan

Digital Music Trends – Midem 2010 Special – Day 3 by digitalmusictrends
A delegation of Getty Images has been to the yearly music conference MIDEMin Cannes. The company has taken the opportunity to unveil more of their music licensing plans. Digital music trends featured a podcast with Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein. In the podcast he [...]
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Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein on music licensing

Photolibraryhas announce its acquisition ofNew York-based Peter Arnold Inc. The company has already acquired a number of specialist agencies like Garden Picture Library, Oxford Scientific (OSF), Fresh Food Images, Britain on View and Monsoon images.
Glenn Parker, Photolibrary Group CEO commented “The Peter Arnold collection will significantly enhance our content in the key specialty subject categories [...]
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Photolibrary acquires Peter Arnold collection

There was something very interesting about the photo news last week. On one side theres the mighty Getty Images (aka, the whale) who took a deep plunge in pricing with its subscriptionroyalty freeoffering, combining microstockand pro. On the other, legendary Magnumphotosthat managed a great coup by selling some used prints for an estimated $ 30 [...]
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