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A21 Reports Q4/2007 + Full Year 2007 Financial Results

A21 (ATWO), the parent company of SuperStock, the Royalty-Free brand Purestock, the subscription brand PurestockX, of Ingram Publishing/Ingram Stock, ArtSelect and the upcoming MediaMagnet, has released Q4/2007 and full year 2007 financial results (in T$):

 

A21 Revenues = Total, Image Licensing = Im. Lic., Art Select = Art S.

YEAR	2005	Q1/06	Q2/06	Q3/06	Q4/06	2006	Q1/07	Q2/07	Q3/07	Q4/07	2007
Total	9.563	2.935	4.511	5.904	6.283	19.633	6.124	5.696	5.387	6.099	23.306
Im. Lic.	9.563	2.935	3.022	2.986	3.032	11.976	3.168	3.038	2.765	2.936	11.907
Art S.	--	--	1.489	2.918	3.251	7.657	2.956	2.658	2.622	3.163	11.399

 

Unlike in previous quarters, I currently lack the time to describe more details publicly. Please read the fine print in the Financial Exhibits section here and do your own math.
The recent SEC filing has more details: please read all details here.

Rich Pearson on Attributor

A recent HyveUp video interview with Rich Pearson, Attributor´s VP of marketing:

   

QuickLinks For 2008-03-22

• Those suing Getty Images, be thankful a buyout came at all:
  Some businesses can easily be ruined by crowdsourcing.
  Jon 0gg/Blogging Buyouts.
  Related:
  
  • Law Offices of Brian M. Felgoise, P.C. Announces Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of Shareholders of Getty Images (Mar. 19, 2008)

QuickLinks For 2008-03-19

• Picollator beta:
  Picollator allows you to upload any picture you like with a person´s face. It searches over the Internet for all matches, without the need to type text queries or rename the picture with specific keywords.
  Techpin.

Jupitermedia Releases Financial Results For Q4/2007 + Full Year 2007

Jupitermedia, the parent company of Jupiterimages, today released the results for Q4/2007 and the full year 2007. In contrast to previous quarters, I lack the time this quarter here on this blog to take a closer look at some financial details publicly, and actually readers used to read the fine print will find all details for their Excel sheets here in the press release. A quick and very general overlook:

 

(1) Jupiterimages Rev.  (2) JUPM Rev.  (3) Jup.images Rev. in % of JUPM Rev.

Y	2005	Q1/06	Q2/06	Q3/06	Q4/06	2006	Q1/07	Q2/07	Q3/07	Q4/07	2007
1	80.658	26.565	26.807	26.177	27.087	106.636	27.914	27.383	26.824	26.783	108.904
2	113.754	33.941	35.026	33.784	34.779	137.530	34.771	34.699	34.766	36.128	140.334
3	70.9%	78.27%	76.53%	77.48%	77.88%	77.536%	80.28%	78.92%	77.16%	74.13%	77.60%

 

QuickLinks For 2008-03-16

• Corbis´ SnapVillage says Goodbye to Beta Soon:
  In January, we announced that we´re ramping up our marketing efforts. We´re primarily targeting graphic designers, art directors and other creative professionals. You can find our first print ad in the February issue of Creativity Magazine, introducing SnapVillage to future buyers. You´ll see more ads in the March issue of Creativity, GD USA and the April/May issue of Photoshop User.
  SnapVillage Blog.

Jupitermedia reports Q4/2007 and Full Year 2007 Financial Results

... next week on March 18th, and not today, as it was announced this morning in a separate press release.

This is partly disappointing since many people were waiting for the new key numbers of one of the few remaining publicly traded companies in what was once is called the Stock Photo Industry, and since Jupitermedia CEO Alan Meckler said two weeks ago in a meaningful statement "I think we are doing better than Getty. Getty´s numbers cast a bad light on the stock image business and us. Now we move forward without Getty Images' numbers hanging around our neck".

QuickLinks For 2008-03-09

• Interview with CEO and Founder of PhotoShelter, Allen Murabayashi:
  Question: As an entrepreneur or investor, what are your thoughts on competition? How do you view competition?
  Allen Murybayashi: The competition is really Getty Images, and in this respect it´s tough because they are a very well established player with lots of big contracts in place. However, there´s also a lot of unrest in the industry and people are looking in particular for ways to license images very easily for usage on the web. In this respect, there is a huge opportunity for an Internet upstart to come in and shake things up. Getty uses the Internet as a channel; they are not an Internet company. We think this distinction actually ends up being pretty crucial in the operating philosophy.
  Darren Herman/Marketing, Advertising, Media and Technology Blog.
  Related:
  
  • Interview With Allen Murabayashi, CEO Of Photoshelter (July 25, 2005)

PICTA Hamburg

I´m off to the PICTA, organized by the German Association of Picture Agencies, the three-days picture agency fair in Hamburg, which claims to be the second largest event of its kind in the world (which is probably the reason why their website is only in german), so there won´t very likely be any updates here until Monday next week.

QuickLinks For 2008-03-05, II

• Einstein Inc., in death, he mastered the science of making money:
  "When I heard what the licensing fee was, I freaked out", says Ingrid Sinyor of Euro­graphics, a poster manufacturer in Canada. To print five Einstein posters, with a run of 5,000 each, Sinyor says she paid Corbis $20,000 in licensing fees in addition to $5,000 for the images themselves.
  In an effort to maintain its grip on all things Einstein, Corbis and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) have trademarked the Einstein name and image.
  "Suppose I were at a conference and I took a picture of Niels Bohr and Einstein. What if Einstein gave me a picture of himself? Would I have to pay to use it?"
  "We get calls literally every day", says Martin Cribbs, the director of rights representation at Corbis. "And the vast majority are small companies that want to do an Einstein key chain or something like that. Ninety-nine percent of those get turned away. We´re not in the business of one-off Einstein novelty items".
  Even if a company hoping to make an Einstein yarmulke manages to assemble the cash and to get a call back from Corbis, it must leap a final hurdle: getting approval from HUJ. Every single reproduction of an Einstein likeness or creation of an Einstein product must be approved by the university, and, according to several manufacturers, the process is extremely demanding.
  Discover Magazine, two pages (comp.), with A Brief/-er History of Time about the Schroedinger equation, The Roger Richmann Agency, Corbis and the thrill of licensing images of Albert Einstein.

• Search engines, Image conscious:
  Idée Inc. needs to bulk up, both in servers to crawl and index the Web´s unknown billions of images, and in employees to beat bushes for new business partners - and that means getting venture capital. Leila Boujnane needs a VC willing to invest the $10 million or so she thinks the company has to raise.
  Canadian Business magazine, two pages.