QuickLinks For 2008-02-14

• GumGum Launches New Image Licensing Platform:
  GumGum co-founder Ari Mir introduces his new company and submitted a GumGum fact sheet (download), but Michael Arrington had been way faster (link above) to write a story around it:
  
  Images today are generally licensed for a flat fee, exclusively or non-exclusively. GumGum founders Ophir Tanz and Ari Mir think a better way is to charge for impressions, or on an advertising-supported basis.
  GumGum allows any publisher to search for images (there are thousands available now via a number of photography agencies) - here´s an example search for "Britney" [these images are from the X17 photo agency]. Images can be licensed on a CPM basis (generally $0.20 or so, but determined by content owner), or for free with an advertisement.

Any photographer can now upload images and sell them. And any publisher can create an account to license images. Down the road, GumGum says, they´ll be adding video, audio and text content for licensing as well.
If there is a killer image that a lot of people will want to publish, GumGum is a great way to easily license it to an unlimited number of people. At the very least, it´s an interesting experiment.
Ari comments on Michael´s article, full introduction video below.

       

• Shutterstock has an opening for a:
  
  • Sales Associate, Corporate Accounts.
  All details and contact information here at Worldwide Stock Photo Industry Jobs.

 

• PhotoShelter introduces the new PhotoShelter Widget.