Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Shutterstock Surpasses 200 Million Global Stock Image Downloads

New York, Feb. 01, 2012. Shutterstock, a leading global marketplace for stock photography, vectors, illustrations and footage, today announced that it has surpassed 200 million licensed image downloads, making it the first company in its industry to declare such an achievement.

In conjunction with this milestone, the company has released a series of findings about trends in visual media through an infographic, which can be found here.

Fotolia and deviantART Announce “The deviantART Collection”

A new art-inspired stock photography collection, offering advertising quality images at microstock rates

New York, NY, January 17, 2012. DeviantART (dA) and Fotolia announced the release of the deviantART Collection, offering stock images curated as art with a commercial user in mind. This unique collection includes over 3,000 images created by members of the dA community, now available for purchase through the Fotolia website, http://www.fotolia.com/dacollection.

Corbis® Images and The Associated Press Launch their Unparalleled Media Offering to Customers

Customers have access to the world’s most compelling editorial and creative imagery in the market

Seattle, WA, Jan. 04, 2012. Corbis Images and The Associated Press today launched their Media offering that provides customers unprecedented access to more than 10 million images covering an unparalleled range of breaking news, sports and entertainment, archival and creative images. This comprehensive cross-distribution partnership combines the strengths of two of the world’s leading organizations for compelling and authoritative imagery.

Dreamstime Reports Record Year With More Than 4.2 Million Customers

Customer Service and Image Variety Drives Adoption Among Worldwide Consumers

Nashville, TN, Dec 15, 2011. Dreamstime, a leading stock photography community, announced today that it saw consistently strong growth throughout 2011, solidifying its place as a global leader in the stock photography market. Since 2007, Dreamstime's customer base has grown from 350,000 to the more than 4.2 million customers it boasts today. With this rapid growth, Dreamstime has positioned itself as a major supplier of high quality digital images at incredibly low prices with the second largest community of registered stock image users.

New Campaign To Embed Information Permanently In Digital Media

London, Dec. 13, 2011. A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but permanently attached descriptions are worth a lot more as photos travel through the digital world. A campaign has been launched now to embed descriptive and rights information in digital media and to retain it during the whole life cycle.

The initiative has been launched by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), with the support of trade organisations representing visual arts and photo agencies.

iStockphoto Unveils Aggressive New Referral Program

New Program, Among the Highest Paying in the Industry, Gives Referrers a Choice of $20, 20 Credits or 20% Commission Plus 10 Free Credits to Newly Referred Customers
 
Calgary, Nov. 30, 2011. iStockphoto today announced an aggressive new referral program that rewards participants with their choice of $20, 20 credits or 20 percent commission on all first-time purchases by customers they generate. Newly referred iStockers are also awarded 10 free credits just for setting up an account.

Masterfile Launches New $10 Collection

Stock photo agency adds 1.5 million low-priced Royalty-Free images to premium website

Toronto, Nov. 21, 2011. Masterfile, a global leader in stock image licensing, has added 1.5 million budget-friendly photos and illustrations to its website at http://www.masterfile.com, complementing its large collection of premium rights-managed and royalty-free images.

The new collection, labeled as “$10 RF”, includes the entire image collection of Crestock – a microstock business acquired by Masterfile in 2010.

ImageCollect.com Library Grows to More Than 3,000,000 Images

Micro-Stock Celebrity Photo Marketplace Grows 2x in 3 Months

LA, Nov. 15, 2011. AudioMicro, Inc., which operates a network of digital content licensing marketplaces, announced today that its celebrity picture marketplace, ImageCollect.com, now has more than three million photos available for download. With a robust collection of archival imagery and current content being supplied by top entertainment photographers, ImageCollect is on pace to become one of the world’s largest celebrity photo libraries, just eight months after launch.

Corbis Launches ‘OnDemand: Royalty-Free’ Subscription Plan

Corbis offers customers a simple, flexible subscription option providing access to compelling Royalty-Free imagery for any project or budget

Seattle, WA, Nov. 07, 2011. Corbis Images, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced a new Royalty-Free (RF) subscription service to allow customers to easily access and purchase more than one million RF images. The service, called 'OnDemand: Royalty-Free' will be available to all customers to help solve their creative storytelling needs.

Getty Images Announces Flickr’s 250,000th Image Milestone

Dynamic Flickr Collection Reflects Passion of Worldwide Community of Photography Enthusiasts

New York, Oct. 19, 2011. Getty Images, a leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, and Flickr®, a Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) service and one of the world’s largest photo sharing communities, today announced an exciting milestone for the Flickr Collection [Link to Flickr Select].

Just two years after the debut of this first-of-its-kind collection, the Flickr Collection has grown to 250,000 images, featuring compelling and innovative content from a global community of photography enthusiasts from over 115 countries.

 

Alamy launches Live News service

Oxfordshire, UK, Oct. 18, 2011. Alamy announces the launch of its live news service which provides a stream of unique news, sport and entertainment photographs direct to customers. For the first time, Alamy will push live news to its customers via FTP just minutes after the photographs were captured.

•        Images online within minutes via super-quick FTP upload route for contributors
•        Coverage for customers including regional/national/international images
•        Images pushed to news customers via FTP

iStockphoto Celebrates 5 Years In Video Biz

Stock Video Gets Real - Industry Leader iStockphoto Sees Demand for Gritty, Authentic Stock Video, Predicts Trends in Combined Still/Video Offerings + Mini-Films as iStockvideo Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Calgary, Alberta, Oct. 17, 2011. October marks the fifth year iStockphoto has been in the stock video business. To celebrate, the company is discounting video purchases by 15 percent from October 17th to 23rd.

Reduced advertising budgets and the explosive demand for online video content have allowed the stock video industry to evolve at a highly accelerated pace.

iStockphoto Launches “Feast,” a New Online Community Serving Up an Inspired Public Mentorship

... Between Creatives and Thought Leaders

Calgary, Alberta, Oct. 05, 2011. iStockphoto announces Feast, a new online community for creatives. Feast provides abundant helpings of inspiration from a diverse group of designers, photographers, directors, writers, marketing professionals and more. Feast’s centerpiece is a unique public mentorship between cutting-edge leaders in diverse fields such as photojournalist Mario Tama and writer, director and producer Kirby Ferguson, and protégés who apply to work with them online.

Find All Stock Media in One Place - Pond5, The World´s Stock Media Marketplace, Arrives in Europe

Pond5 Gives Away $10,000 in Content at the Frankfurt Book Fair

New York, NY, October 05th, 2011. Pond5, the online marketplace for stock media and creative components, announced today that its collection now includes more than 800,000 royalty-free stock video clips (the largest archive on the web), along with millions of other assets, including stock photos, illustrations, music tracks, sound effects, and After Effects motion graphics projects. 

Recently, Pond5 opened its doors for contributors of 3D models as well; the 3D collection will launch for buyers later this year.

SuperStock Launches Value-Priced Image Collection SuperFusion

Stock Photography Agency launches SuperFusion, a collection for budget-minded customers, and begins roll out of new logo and streamlined website

Jacksonville, FL, Sep. 28, 2011. SuperStock, a leading stock photography agency specializing in Contemporary, Travel, Fine Art, and Vintage imagery, has announced that it is launching SuperFusion, a new collection of value-priced royalty-free images gathered from around the world. The collection features images from top professional photographers including Yuri Arcurs, Ron Chapple, and Andres Rodriguez.

StockFood Launches living4media: the New Image Agency for Home and Living

Munich, Sep. 15, 2011. StockFood, the world’s leading food image agency, introduces living4media: a new picture agency specialising in home and living. The concept behind www.living4media.com is to unite the most outstanding images produced by internationally renowned photographers and well-known niche agencies under one roof.

The new premium collection focuses on rights-managed images as well as feature articles. living4media features include up to 50 individual images and comprehensive texts, and are available for exclusive licensing.

Stipple Introduces Marketplace, the Next Generation Image Licensing Service

New Service Set to Revolutionize Image Discovery, Licensing and Publishing

SF, CA, Sep. 20, 2011. Stipple, pioneering cloud services for images, today announced Stipple Marketplace, the definitive image discovery and licensing service creating the web's most valuable, interactive images. Instead of paying to license images and then running ads to hopefully offset the image's cost, publishers can now license photos pre-loaded with revenue and interactive, searchable content.

Dreamstime Launches Image Subscription Offering for Students

Five iPad 2s Randomly Given to Those Who Sign Up; Five Additional iPad 2s Awarded to Top Five Student Referrers

Nashville, TN, Sept. 07, 2011. If there's ever a universal commonality among students, it is the fact they could all use more money in their pocket to spend on such "critical" activities as concert tickets, road trips and house parties. Leading stock photography company Dreamstime understands this and in an effort to help students save now and cram later on their scholarly studies, it has launched an exclusive offer and give away for students who require imagery and stock photography for the academic year.

Alamy Launches ‘100% Royalties’ For Students

Stock photo agency introduces industry-first initiative for students - and gives away all of its commission

Oxfordshire, UK, Sept. 07, 2011. In a bid to engage with the next generation of picture professionals, Alamy, the world’s largest online stock photo site, is launching a new initiative called ‘100% Royalties’. The campaign will see Alamy offering photography and design students 100 percent royalties on all sales over a two year period.

Depositphotos Stock Photo Agency Received Investment from TMT Investments

Fort Lauderdale, FL, Sept. 07, 2011. Depositphotos, the fastest growing stock photo agency in the world, announced a significant investment contract with TMT Investments.

Based in Florida (USA), Depositphotos was founded in 2009, and soon established itself as a popular, cost-effective alternative for the acquisition of high-quality stock photo images. It proved itself as a first stock photo agency to offer bonus payments without hidden withdrawal conditions for every single image photographers uploaded for sale.

Getty Images to Capture London 2012 Olympic Games in 3D

New York, Sept. 06, 2011. Getty Images, the official Photographic Agency to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has announced that it will shoot the London 2012 Olympic Games in stunning 3D. This will be the first time Getty Images has shot the Games using this technology and Getty Images is deploying a handful of 3D-dedicated photographers to ensure the best still shots are captured.

Getty Images Appointed Official Photography Partner for Inaugural Season of Epic Poker League

Los Angeles, Aug. 30, 2011. Getty Images is proud to announce an exclusive partnership with Epic Poker League, a new professional poker league launched by Federated Sports + Gaming (FS+G). Getty Images will take on the role as the league's official photography partner. Getty Images will cover the five Epic Poker League Inaugural Season events at Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

This is the first time that Getty Images has worked in the world of poker and will be tasked with photographing all of the action on the felt when the world's best poker players descend on Palms Casino Resort.

Corbis Invests In Demotix Following Global Distribution Agreement

Corbis invests in Demotix following global distribution agreement

London, Aug. 24, 2011. Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com), a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that it has made an undisclosed investment in Demotix, the multi-award winning open news platform, following the media distribution partnership between the two companies announced in March.

The Associated Press and Corbis Images Combine Collective Strengths to Provide an Unparalleled Media Offering to Customers

Arrangement is a "perfect marriage" of editorial and creative imagery for customers

Seattle, WA, Aug. 23, 2011. The Associated Press (www.ap.org) and Corbis Images (www.corbisimages.com) announced a comprehensive cross-distribution partnership [sample] today that provides customers unprecedented access to more than 10 million images covering an unparalleled range of breaking news, sports and entertainment, archival and creative images.

The strategic alliance combines the strengths of two of the world's leading organizations for compelling and authoritative imagery globally.

Graphic Design USA Annual Survey 2011

New York, NY, Aug. 21, 2011. An annual survey of 1,008 Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) readers shows the use of stock imagery today is greater than ever.

The survey, which the magazine has been doing for 25 years, shows that 96 percent of designers use stock imagery in their work and 60 percent use stock at least 20 times a year. Both represent new highs in the survey.