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QuickLinks For 2009-02-04

• Getty Images shuts Scoopt that marketed photos from amateurs:
  Getty Images bought Scoopt in 2007. Scoopt told its contributors that it thought the acquisition was "fantastic news" that would provide "the scale to better market your content to a global media audience."
  Scoopt will stop accepting and licensing submissions on Friday: "We remain convinced that there is a demand for this kind of material as part of an editorial product, but for the moment are choosing to focus our energies within Getty Images on our core products in news, sport and entertainment."
  Getty spokesman Molly McWhinnie said [also] that today´s marketplace is highly competitive: "I think there's a lot of other avenues out there that people can upload this type of imagery onto and I don't think they necessarily think ... 'Ooh, I want to make money off of it first'."
  She was not sure whether the company had explored options in addition to shutting down the site, such as whether it had tried to find a buyer.
  CBCNews.ca (compiled).
  
  
  • Related: Citizen journalism photo agency Scoopt closing (AFP)
    "Scoopt itself will remain active until March 6 but from February 6 we´ll not be accepting any new imagery," said Molly McWhinnie. She said Getty Images remained interested in user-generated photos. "We definitely believe there is a demand for this type of material as an editorial product but there are so many other avenues out there right now for citizen photo journalists."
  • Related: KyleMacRae on Twitter
    "To any Scoopt contributors on here, sorry it didn´t work out. The idea was for it to scale under Getty. Shame that didn´t happen."

QuickLinks For 2008-02-26

• Jonathan Klein spent some time with me this morning:
  We do want to focus on more long-term growth and we want to put more into our consumer offering and we think that music or footage or multimedia can grow faster. But we will still have the priority of stabilizing that traditional creative stills business, which showed some improvement in the fourth quarter sequentially but remains subject to those broader issues. [...]
  It was a competitive deal, and the proxy document that will come out in the next several weeks will have a lot of detail on that.
  Seattle-Post Intelligencer/John Cook, Q&A with Getty Images´Jonathan Klein.