The F Stops Here

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 4, 2010 — Bigstock, one of the world’s leading online royalty-free stock image agencies, announced today the launch of its eagerly anticipated website overhaul, www.bigstock.com, built to provide the best online experience for buyers looking to purchase high quality stock images via affordable credit-based payment options.

he site, designed in collaboration with Shutterstock, the world’s largest subscription-based stock photo company, reflects the company’s deep knowledge of the global stock image marketplace, and its commitment to expand Bigstock’s global presence after acquiring the company last year.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Today Shutterstock® announced the addition of its 10 millionth image, a milestone that underscores the company’s rapid growth and commitment to high quality, crowdsourced visual media.

In a typical week, Shutterstock adds 80,000 new images – a rate of nearly eight images every minute – and provides designers, bloggers, advertisers, publications and marketers with a continuous stream of fresh new content. Shutterstock crowdsources the talents of more than 200,000 digital photographers and illustrators around the world who collect earnings when customers download their images. Shutterstock’s review team screens every image for quality and compliance, enforcing some of the highest standards in the imagery business. Just 40 percent of the images submitted by approved artists are accepted.

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Oxfordshire, UK, Feb. 11, 2010. 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 world’s largest online stock photography site was able to produce a healthy income for its image providers. Alamy pays 60 per cent of each sale to the photographer, one of the highest royalties in the industry. Of the £8 million, around £5 million went to individual photographers rather than picture agencies.

Head of Content, Alan Capel said: “Yes it’s a tough market but we’ve come through a tough year and are still turning a good profit. In these testing economic times for us all, we feel it’s even more important that we return the largest share of the sale to the creator of the image. This can in turn lead to the production of a steady supply of high quality imagery.”

New York, NY, Feb 01, 2010. Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual and digital media content, today launches Thinkstock (www.thinkstock.com), a new image subscription product that provides one of the most complete offerings available in the marketplace. Developed for value-conscious creative professionals, Thinkstock is one of the only subscription products to offer this level of quality, simplicity and value all in one place, with world-class legal protection.

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January, 20, 2010. With Image Source vario images represents a new promising partner agency with its headquarter in London. The renowned photo agency belongs to the leading independent producers of creative and commercial Royalty Free-photography. The remarkable image pool contains more than 145.000 images, so that almost every topic in the field of high-quality people and lifestyle photography can be visualized.

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LONDON, January 13/PRNewswire/ —     Image Source, the world’s leading producer of royalty free stock imagery, announces a prize draw for customers to win a pair of tickets to Cape Town, South Africa for the World Cup.

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2010 — Snapixel, (http://www.snapixel.com) a photography company based in San Francisco, is finding out that photographers tend to be very loyal to their camera brand. When consumers want the latest and greatest equipment, they are more likely inclined to buy the newest model of their current camera, based wholly on brand loyalty. That said, most skilled photographers can be divided almost equally into two groups: Canon users and Nikon users. The fierce competitors these groups represent have been one-upping each other for years and have established very loyal customer bases along the way. However, with the recent release of their newest high-end models, Canon’s 7D and Nikon’s D3s, it seems that certain special features may be enough to cause some to convert.

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Cedar City, UT (PRWEB) January 7, 2010 — Fantastic-Farm-and-Country-Photos.com is now allowing its readers to upload their own country living photos for free. Beautiful country homes, simple decor, farm animals and barns are all part of the photos that are shared on the site. For city dwellers, this country photo site can be a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle experienced in the city.

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LONDON, December 17/PRNewswire/ —     Image Source http://www.imagesource.com, the world’s leading producer of royalty free stock imagery, announces the online integration of its new ‘Cross-Media Pack’, enabling customers to directly view and licence matched still and motion media elements to design a consistent, multimedia campaign.

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Austin TX, Dec. 08, 2009. The launch of new photography website FocalPop brings photographers and photo buyers a unique new way buy and sell photography. FocalPop’s model is simple: image seekers create a request describing the photo they need, photographers upload shots that meet the request, and then the seeker selects a winning photo. Using crowdsourcing as well as a reverse-auction approach to selling photography is proving to be the fresh new approach needed in the market.

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