Category: Stock Photography Subscriptions
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Getty launches Thinkstock subscription product
Getty Images announced it will now offer another subscription product, Thinkstock, giving new life to a brand the company acquired from Jupiter Images in 2008. The Thinkstock subscription product will include millions of high-quality royalty free photographs, illustrations and vectors from its Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiter Images collections. Thinkstock will include both professional and user-generated content. Getty plans to add thousands of new images to the product weekly to keep it fresh and vibrant.
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Fotolia launches premium subscription plan
Fotolia, a popular micro-payment stock photography site, has announced that it has launched a premium subscription plan, giving access to Fotolia’s entire collection of high resolution vectors and images, and high definition videos. Pricing is based on the required number of downloads per day (ranging from 25 to 250) for as little as $249/month.
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Shutterstock reaches 6 million images
Shutterstock, a New York City based micro-payment stock photography subscription service, has announced that it has grown to more than 6 million stock images. In Nov 08 the company was touting that it had reached 5 million images and in less than four months, Shutterstock has added another million images to its offering. “We continue to experience tremendous growth in both the size of our library and in the volume of images that our subscribers download,” said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock. “Thanks to more than 144,000 submitters who contribute to our library, our customers can depend on us for a steady source of fresh, high quality content.” Shutterstock’s broad, diverse selection of stock images, user-friendly website, and sophisticated search engine enables subscribers to quickly and easily find the perfect images for their creative needs”.
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Shutterstock reaches milestone of 5 Million Images
Shutterstock, a New York City based micro-payment stock photography subscription service, has announced that it has attained a new milestone surpassing 5 million images in its collection growing at a rate of 70,000 images per week. The company also recently touted that it has surpassed 100,000 editorial images. “Since January, we have added over 2 million new royalty-free images to our library, and our weekly library growth rate has recently reached more than 70,000 new images per week,” said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock.
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Dreamstime reaches 4 million images and 1 million users
Dreamstime, a Brentwood Tennessee based micro-payment stock photography business, has announced that it is celebrating a two-fold achievement. First the company has attained 1 Million registered users supported by a growing collection that has recently topped the 4 Million mark doubling its library of images in less than 12 months. “Our success is based on an absolute supply and demand premise; you need images for buyers and buyers to increase the demand for images,” states Serban Enache, CEO and co-founder of Dreamstime.com.
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Shutterstock announces 60 Million stock images served
New York based Shutterstock has announced that it has reached a major milestone by delivering its 60 millionth stock photo download from its subscription service since launchin in 2005. “We have grown tremendously thanks to our worldwide base of talented submitters who provide our customers with an extensive library of premium royalty-free images,” said Jon Oringer, Shutterstock founder and CEO. “We take great pride in developing flexible subscription plans for every budget as well as innovative tools to empower creative professionals.”
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PhotoSpin launches annual Spinner Awards contest
Long Beach, CA based PhotoSpin, a leading royalty free stock subscription company has announced that it will be running it’s annual Advertising contenst dubbed the ‘Spinner Awards’. To participate in the contest designers must create an account in the MySpin Directory and upload their ads. The contest is open to PhotoSpin’s customers and visitors as well as anyone else with a creative flair and a spirit for competition.
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Shutterstock launches new on-demand subscription buying terms
New York based Shutterstock, one of the first micro-payment subscription-based stock photo agencies, has announced that it has created four new on-demand subscription licensing plans allowing users to download images anytime over a one year period without any daily or monthly download limits. Previously the company only offered a subscription with a ‘25-a-day’ download limit.
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Photo News Round-Up
• 123rf.com has launched a new service for corporate customers allowing them to create a customized stock photo intranet site under their own banner while 123RF supplies the images. Corporate clients can then administrate the intranet, giving access to downloads and other privileges to appropriate staff members. Click here for more information.
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Fotolia launches micro-payment subscription service
Fotolia, a micro-stock company based in New York, has announced that it has launched a subscription product giving users access to its image library of more than 3.5 million stock images. This news follows a similar announcement from Getty’s iStockphoto last month who claimed to be responding to customer demand for subsciption licensing. “The Fotolia subscription service will allow high-volume customers to continue to receive the best deal in microstock photography on the Web, being able to license images for as little as $.20 per image, while not impacting the revenues of our stock photographers.” explains Oleg Tcheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia, LLC. “
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Northfoto signs agreement to represent Jupiterimages subscription services
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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iStockphoto introducing stock photography and footage subscription in May ‘08
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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Newscom now offering broadcast quality news footage from Reuters
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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Crestock revises web-site with version 3.0
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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Shutterstock’s collection reaches two million images
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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Corbis launches micro-stock beta site SnapVillage.com
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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Shutterstock is helping micro-stock photographers gain access to red carpet
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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Getty Images acquires citizen photojournalism pioneer Scoopt
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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ASPP selects Niki Barrie as Picture Professional Of The Year
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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PACA launches PACAdex online directory
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.
