QuickLinks For 2008-06-27

• Happy snappers zoom into the industry frame:
  Gary Shenk predicts sales of amateur snaps will triple in the next five years to control 25 per cent of the $2 billion global market.
  Today Corbis is a $320 million international business.
  The Sydney Morning Herald.

• Commercial on CNBC - nearly all iStock footage.

• Shortly after its 25th company anniversary, Bilderberg had to file for insolvency.

• I was just talking to an AP photographer and the bulk rates AP has worked out with clients has brought down the per image rate to new lows. He also told me that photographers will now not own their outtakes, that all images will be owned by AP. This prevents the photographers from selling the outtakes as their own stock.
  Peter Bennett of Ambient Images on stockphoto.net.