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Online images. The decrease in revenues during the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 is due primarily to declines in direct sales of royalty-free single images and CD-ROMs and in sales from third party distributors, partially offset by an increase in subscription revenues. [...]
Online media. The increase in revenues during the three and six months ended June 30, 2008 was due to the acquisition of Mediabistro which added $2.3 million and $4.4 million in revenues, respectively. This was partially offset by a reduction in advertising revenues due to a decline in advertising spending by technology companies.
(Full quartery report here/Rafat Ali takes a deeper look at MediaBistro)
Jupiterimages´Q2 revenues ($26.090 million) were again the lowest in the last two years.
(1) JI Rev. (2) JUPM Rev. (3) JI Rev. in % of JUPM Rev.
Andy:
Jon, compared to the microstock photography market size, how big do you estimate is the microstock footage market size in general?
Jon:
Comparatively speaking, the microstock footage market is much smaller. However, like the microstock image market in its early days (just a few years ago), it is quickly growing and has great potential.
Andy:
Compared to the traditional footage market size, is microstock footage opening a new market that didn´t formerly exist (like microstock photography)?
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