Jon Oringer of Shutterstock said it well: barrier of entry in stock photography licensing today is very low (actually getting…
Category: Microstock
Adobe’s Golden Opportunity
The recent news of Adobe’s acquisition of microstock company Fotolia has sent ripples throughout the photo licensing world. The software…
Shutterstock buys Rex for $33 Million
North America woke up with the news that golden boy photo agency Shutterstock acquired no less than 2 companies in…
Buying an audience
Ever so often, the topic of the value of a photograph emerges from the bowels of online conversations. Very quickly,…
One thousand useless words
Popular saying declares that a photo is worth a thousand words. But how is it useful if those words are meaningless? How many times have…
Like a fly on your nose
If a fly lands on your nose, right between your two eyes, it becomes invisible. You might feel it, but…
Stock photo blindness
Stock photos and stock agencies have a bigger problem than declining usage fees. They just don’t work anymore. In the…
The war of the embeds
At the end of 2007, a company with a chewing name, came out with a product that, at the time,…
Exclusive : Getty Images new phone App
If you have been reading this blog, you already know that we strongly believe that next big disruption to the…
Labeled and filtered out
Today, or yesterday, Google made a little change to its image search engine that could have great consequences. Apparently responding…
