Comments on: Corbis closes Snapvillage http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/02/05/corbis-closes-snapvillage/ Another Photo Industry blog Tue, 22 May 2012 01:07:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Flemishdreams http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/02/05/corbis-closes-snapvillage/#comment-2619 Flemishdreams Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:22:55 +0000 http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/02/05/corbis-closes-snapvillage/#comment-2619 They might have learned that not being able to give contributors FTP upload for over a year is not exactly part of that "pleasant uploading experience" that Veer announced. When Getty bought iStock, they bought a mature product. Snapvillage is hardly mature with their glorified WordPress site and 5-at-a-time HTML upload. It will be fun to see how Veer will handle those myriads of uploads once they opened the floodgates for the "traditional" cheap microstockers with large ports ready-to-go. Cutting through the corporate smokescreen and newspeak ("strategic", "enhanced", "upgrade", "synergy"), this is just another new microstock site that starts from scratch and Snapvillage has been wrapped up. Nice tax deduction though. They might have learned that not being able to give contributors FTP upload for over a year is not exactly part of that “pleasant uploading experience” that Veer announced.

When Getty bought iStock, they bought a mature product. Snapvillage is hardly mature with their glorified WordPress site and 5-at-a-time HTML upload.

It will be fun to see how Veer will handle those myriads of uploads once they opened the floodgates for the “traditional” cheap microstockers with large ports ready-to-go.

Cutting through the corporate smokescreen and newspeak (”strategic”, “enhanced”, “upgrade”, “synergy”), this is just another new microstock site that starts from scratch and Snapvillage has been wrapped up. Nice tax deduction though.

]]> By: pmelcher http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/02/05/corbis-closes-snapvillage/#comment-2618 pmelcher Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:24:31 +0000 http://blog.melchersystem.com/2009/02/05/corbis-closes-snapvillage/#comment-2618 Probably that they have learned they have made a mistake ? Probably that they have learned they have made a mistake ?

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