Microstock Insider - Site reviews, Photographer guides, Industry Updates - New |
Posted: 28 Jun 2010 11:02 PM PDT This month in microstock; quite a lot happening, nothing earth shattering (which is nice!) but lots of interesting little stories:
Flickr and Getty get Closer
Microstock Group Survey
Social Art Buyer
At the Agencies: bigstock introduced some new contributor features: a tax center and some new reporting tools fotolia launched a desktop application to allow buyers to download images directly to their computer. The application is written in adobe air and runs on both PC and MAC. Like istock, fotolia also have a Microsoft Office plugin "ribbon" for buyers. istockphoto released an iphone app to allow buyers to browse and save images as well as create and modify lightboxes while on the move - the integrates directly with their istockphoto account. veer modified their contributor agreement, to put it briefly they have changed their payment process scrapping end of year payment (this is now inline with other agencies) added a statement to allow them to accept direct payments from buyers (i.e. buyers no longer need to buy credits) and have dropped the term 'marketplace' which was used to separate their microstock from macro images. shutterstock announced several search upgrades. Search is far more important than most photographers think: the search improvements feature better people searching, matching numbers of people, ages and genders; better image matching to recommended similar images and realtime search containing fresh editorial content. From a contributors perspective better search may mean more customers buying from shutterstock. The alert feature would also provide a useful way to watch uploads by all contributors matching a niche you choose to monitor - unfortunately it seems to need to be logged in as a subscriber (buyer) to use that feature. panthermedia announced that they would be offering their clients the pixamba photo management solution I wrote about last month, Interestingly they are not offering it to their customers for free. I would of imagined that for any agency it would an added value service that would "tie buyers in", then offering buyers the agencies own photos if their previously purchased collection does not contain what they need. Surely I'm not the only one thinking that if I had a subscription with a microstock agency and was thinking about changing that subscription to another provider then if I also had all my images managed with that agency too I'd be a lot less likely to want to leave? Both Veer and Vivozoom announced that their images would be added to the PicScout IRC image indexing service allowing buyers with the ImageExchange plugin to locate available stock images anywhere online more easily. Advertise Here |
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Microstock Insider - Site reviews, Photographer guides, Industry Updates - New Part 1
Microstock Insider - Site reviews, Photographer guides, Industry Updates - New Part 1
Microstock Insider - Site reviews, Photographer guides, Industry Updates - New Part 1
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