Jupitermedia has just launched the JupiterImages Unlimited Subscription Service with "unlimited access, at multiple resolutions, to over 330,000 images (Brand X, Comstock Images, Creatas Images, Goodshoot, IT Stock Free, Thinkstock Images, Photos.com, AbleStock.com and PhotoObjects.net).
Each photo is available in multiple resolutions, ranging from 1MB up to 75MB. Two subscription options are available, full access for all file sizes, and low resolution access for Web/multimedia resolution images. Each option includes access to the entire collection of images.
Will Jonathan Klein of Getty Images still call this "crap" ? Getty offers about 50,000 images in its subscription service Creative Express with plans to expand the offer to 80,000 images by the end of the year.
How will Bahar Gidwani/Index Stock Imagery respond to it ? Can he respond to it at all? Index Stock is offering about 75,000 images in its subscription service.
And by the way, where is Corbis? As PDN writes today in "Corbis Restructures Again", Corbis has just fired Jennifer Hurshell (Senior V. P. Commercial Image Licensing of Corbis) and Joe Barrett (SVP, Marketing).
Is this new or extended offering of Jupiter only a too fast and blindfold reaction to the new subscription service of Getty Images, Creative Express? Note, if you just only react, then you are not moving independently.
Some days ago on July 14, 2005, Meckler wrote that he thinks Getty Images is in a panic.
What is happening right now just seems to demonstrate that Meckler is in a panic, just some 10 days after Getty Images has introduced Creative Express. Would Meckler have done this step if Getty had not introduced Creative Express?
Read also: "JupiterImages' New Subscription Service ..." (Stock Asylum):
"Likewise, Jeffrey Burke, JupiterImages senior vice president of product strategy and former owner of the PictureArts stock photography agency, was similarly unconcerned about the new competition.
"Their (Getty's) subscription service has a lot of similars and old materials. My creative team reviewed it the day it was launched and they were not impressed," Burke commented.
Read also: "JupiterImages Announces Expanded Subscription Service" (PDN):
Meckler says the new service is not a reaction to Getty Image's new Creative Express subscription service, which launched last week with 50,000 images at a cost of $1,599 or $1,999 a year.
"We've been working on this for four months," Meckler adds.
Next there is "News from JupiterImages" (Publish):
An executive at the Darien, Conn.-based company said JupiterImages will be adding anywhere between 500 and 1,000 new images each month.
This for the moment, more here at the Stock Photo Press Release Cemetery.
