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Alamy Releases Quarterly Statement 2004/2006

UK based photo portal Alamy with currently 4.9 million stock photos from 356 stock agencies and 6400 photographers has released the Quarterly Statement 2004/2006 with new numbers for Q1/2006.

825,052 images were submitted from 2,870 photographers and 178 photo agencies during Q1/2006. The number of images submitted will probably grow faster because Alamy will accept in the future the online submission of images. All details including percentage revenue and average pricing information in a PDF sheet here (download).

Tag: Alamy

Related:

• A paradigm shift : Alamy prepares for online submission (May 24, 2006; Topic 4)
• Alamy has released the Quarterly Statement 2004/2005 (Apr. 11, 2006; Topic 2)
• Alamy: More than a Million of Pix and Worldwide Expansion (Apr. 27, 2004)

Micropayment Stock Photo Portal StockXpert Grows About 10,000 Images A Week

JupiterMedia purchased in January 2006 a 49.7% equity investment in Budapest, Hungary, based HAAP Media Ltd., which operates the stock photo sites Stock.xchng and Stockxpert.com. While the images of Stock.xchng (over 216.000 photos by more than 15.000 photographers) are truly free, Stockxpert offers micropayment stock stock images for as low as $1 and works with credit packages.

JupiterMedia announced today that Stockxpert, launched on Sept. 11, 2005, showcases currently over 120,000 images for sale, adds 10,000 additional images weekly and introduced after Worldpay and Ikobo the PayPal service for financial transactions. Granted that the number of images added weekly won´t change (which it presumably will do, i.e. increasing), Stockxpert´s image database might grow to at least about 420,000 images by the end of this year. Some numbers from the competitors:

QuickLinks For 2006-05-31

• Guilty As Charged:
  Forty Media, the web and branding agency, has published a tongue-in-cheek list of the Top 10 Stock Photography Cliches. I can't think of a single photo agency, including LuckyPix, that isn't  guilty of supplying the demand for cliched imagery at one point or another.
  All I can say is this should be required reading for anybody who is tasked with sourcing stock photos.
  LuckyPix.Blog.
  Tags: Top 10 Stock Photography Cliches 

Getty Images Appoints Thomas Oberdorf As New CFO

Getty Images announced in early December 2005 plans of CFO Liz Huebner to retire during the first half of 2006. Peter Appert/Goldman Sachs asked Liz Huebner during the last Conference Call of Getty Images in April: "Liz, have you reconsidered on the retirement question?"

She responded: "No, I have not reconsidered, but I think it’s safe to say that the search obviously is well under way. We’re pleased with how it’s going and I don’t know when we’ll have somebody named".

QuickLinks For 2006-05-30

• Finally the 2006 RAW Survey Report from OpenRAW is available as PDF file. You can download it from here.
  Related:
  
  • OpenRAW releases initial results of the 2006 RAW Survey (Apr. 25, 2006)
  • Hurry Up: RAW Survey Ends March 15, 2006 (Mar. 09, 2006)
  • Leave Your Wife, Sign Up For OpenRAW (July 21, 2005)
  Tag: OpenRAW

Everystockphoto: Two Months Old, Over 260,000 Free Images Indexed

Similar to the earlier here in July 2005 introduced Yotophoto, the new website everystockphoto, founded by the former investment banker Jonathan Yapp, offers another search engine for creative commons (including Flickr images), public domain and other attribution licensed photos, aimed to be a community for designers, developers, photographers and other media publishers .

QuickLinks For 2006-05-28

• They Had Faces Then: An Archive Keeps Stars Ever Young:
  Over the last 30 years the Michael Ochs Archives has grown to become the premier source of musician photography in the world, every day licensing shots of hayseeds and headbangers to illustrate books (about half of recent rock 'n' roll books have included photos from the collection), dress up documentaries (like Martin Scorsese's recent PBS feature on Bob Dylan) and otherwise adorn television programs and feature films (in "Ray," session sets were based on images from the Ochs Archives). Yet it has the breadth of material, the unwavering welcome to the bizarre and staggeringly obscure that invigorates the collection. [...]

QuickLinks For 2006-05-26

• New RF collection:
  Paris based PHOTONONSTOP, formed in 2000 by the merger of the agencies La Photothèque SDP and DIAF, is currently running an archive of 3 million photos and has over 150 photographers under contract.
  PHOTONONSTOP will introduce a new RF collection during the upcoming CEPIC congress.
  The first series of CDs will cover the topics Family and Beauty.
  Tag: PHOTONONSTOP

QuickLinks For 2006-05-25

• The Rise of Crowdsourcing:
  At first, the stock industry aligned itself against iStockphoto and other so-called microstock agencies like ShutterStock and Dreamstime. Then, in February, Getty Images, the largest agency by far with more than 30 percent of the global market, purchased iStockphoto for $50 million. “If someone’s going to cannibalize your business, better it be one of your other businesses,” says Getty CEO Jonathan Klein. iStockphoto’s revenue is growing by about 14 percent a month and the service is on track to license about 10 million images in 2006 – several times what Getty’s more expensive stock agencies will sell.

Getty Images Partners With DigitalGlobe, Fotolia Teams Up With SWsoft

Latest content partnerships of today:

• DigitalGlobe Teams Up With Getty Images to Bring Satellite Imagery to News Media:
  DigitalGlobe´s collection of high resolution satellite imagery depicting newsworthy events and locations from around the world is now available to editorial customers via Getty Images.
  DigitalGlobe noted that members of the media have increasingly used DigitalGlobe imagery to illustrate news-breaking events such as natural and man-made disasters, sporting venues and cultural events. For instance, imagery collected just moments after the Southeast Asian tsunami struck land in Dec. 2004 offered the first glimpses of the devastation for many news consumers.