Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Kenneth J. Dale named acting chief financial officer for The Associated Press

NEW YORK – The Associated Press has appointed Kenneth J. Dale, vice president and director of global business development for the news cooperative, to be its acting chief financial officer, effective immediately.

Dale replaces Tommy J. Harris, who resigned earlier this week, citing a desire to spend more time with his family.

Getty Images Debuts New Magazine for Creative Industry: Edit

Wednesday, June 30, 2004.
Edit. A magazine by the people who create images, for the people who use them. Getty Images, the world's leading imagery company, today announced Edit, a new magazine addressing the big image issues in the world of news and sport, creative photography and film.

Edit represents the next evolution in Getty Images' continuing efforts to engage the visual communications industry, covering the various trends, ideas and issues that shape photography and filmmaking today, in both the editorial and creative space.

AP to use Convera software in remaking its news technology

VIENNA, Va. – The Associated Press will use software from Convera Corp. to categorize, search and distribute its multimedia news content as part of a major technology initiative, the companies announced Monday.

AP and Convera also will work to tailor the software, called RetrievalWare, to address broader needs of the publishing industry, and will cooperate on marketing and distributing products that are tailored for the publishing industry.

image100 introduces Difference 9

2004-06-29. Difference 9 is the latest brochure release from image100 encapsulating its most recent CD releases. Appropriately entitled, “Access All Areas” this new collection takes us on a journey of exploration through fact and fiction, from highest mountains to ocean depths and much beside.

zefa joins forces with royalty free giants

24 Jun 2004. zefa visual media has added Digital Vision and Stockbyte to its collection, dramatically increasing the range of Royalty Free imagery available.

Those already familiar with the zefa collection have come to expect a certain standard of imagery, indeed zefa is renowned for being a provider of high end photography.

a21 Press Release: Recent Consolidations May Have Major Impact . . .

June 22, 2004

Recent Consolidations May Have Major Impact . . .

By Ron Rovtar
Managing Editor
The Stock Asylum

This year's new wave of stock distributor consolidations may not have the ground-shaking impact of the first wave in the mid- to late-1990s. But, indications are that the results may still be profound, perhaps even bringing some clearer organization to a market that, in some ways, has ceased to fully make sense.

So far this year a21 purchased Superstock, Veer bought Solus, PictureArts acquired Nonstock and Jupitermedia absorbed Comstock.

All four buyers indicate interest in further acquisitions under the right circumstances and all four appear financially capable of growing large enough to be considered middle-sized agencies. The industry's midlevel was decimated during the 90s consolidations, leaving significant gaps in the overall organization of the industry.

PictureArts Expands Its Stock Photography Offerings

The Creators of FoodPix, Brand X Pictures and Botanica Have Added Nonstock's Library of Alternative Imagery to Their Stock Photo Collections

Thursday, June 24, 2004. PictureArts is pleased to announce that it has successfully incorporated the substantial assets of Nonstock's alternative, rights-managed picture collection into its selection of stock photography brands. The PictureArts family currently includes the rights-managed specialty food stock collection, FoodPix, the rights-managed collection of life and nature pictures, Botanica, and the unique royalty-free collection, Brand X Pictures.

Hemera Goes BIG With Hemera Image Express Premium

Premium subscription offers 75,000 higher-resolution images-up to 15 MB-and more choice in popular royalty-free online image subscription service.

Tuesday, June 22, 2004. Hemera®, a world leader in wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, today announced the launch of Hemera Image Express™ Premium. The new addition to the company's existing image portal offers higher-resolution images in file sizes up to 15 MB, or professional quality printing up to 9 x 6 inches at 300 DPI.

Latest Map Update Allows Users to Create Custom US Regions

Tuesday, June 22, 2004. The latest version of Map Resources Premier USA now includes state maps that "Fit Together." For the first time, users will have the ability to copy and paste adjacent US states together to create custom regions. Fit Together maps are drawn to the same scale, and they are positioned so they will automatically align when combined using Adobe Illustrator's Paste in Front command.

Image Source wows International Partners in London

2004-06-21. Image Source, the leading independent producer of high-end royalty free and Easy Rights™ imagery, held an informative one-day conference at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London with over fifty attendees from all continents of the world.

The Image Source Conference was held on Monday 7th June – a date chosen to accommodate delegates who would be travelling through London on their way to the CEPIC Congress in Copenhagen at the end of the week. The aims of the conference were to inform Image Source’s distributors about the company’s long-term creative and corporate strategy, as well providing a forum for discussion about the stock photography industry in general.