Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Sierra Stock Bucks Microstock Trend

Reno, NV, June 29, 2007. Photographers concerned that microstock photography sites are undermining the value of their work have a new ally in their efforts to sell royalty-free images online. Meet SierraStock.com. SierraStock.com is the newest community stock photography site on the net, opening to the public on Thanksgiving 2006. This June, the site passed the 10,000 image mark and is nearing 200 contributors.

Masterfile to use picturemaxx distribution channels

Munich, June 29, 2007. The picture agency Masterfile and the system provider picturemaxx AG arranged a technical cooperation. Masterfile, founded in Toronto, Canada, in 1981, one of the world's leading independent photo agencies for commercial photography, will market selected images over the picturemaxx marketing platforms ‘APIS network’ and ‘i-picturemaxx’.

PPSOP Signs Agreement with Corbis and FogStock

Jupiter, FL, June 28, 2007 (PRNewswire). The Perfect Picture School of Photography (PPSOP) has launched a new website that allows any and all photographers to submit their images to Corbis and FogStock. The highly successful online photography school has added this service as a natural progression for photographers.

Masterfile launches “People’s Choice” search

Masterfile harnesses the wisdom of crowds for enhanced image searching

Toronto, Canada, June 27, 2007. For several years Masterfile has been aggregating the actions performed on every image on its website in preparation for an enhanced search format - and now it’s arrived. The new “People’s Choice” search option uses compiled client actions to display images ranked by popularity.

Chinatown Film Festival Photography Exhibition

New York, NY, June 26, 2007. The Chinatown Film Festival is proud to announce "Perceptions of Chinatown", a photography exhibition that invites photographers from around the world to submit images that represent their views and feelings of the various Chinatowns around the world.

Shutterstock(R) Photo Library Hits Two Million Images

New York, NY, June 26, 2007. Shutterstock(R) is proud to announce that its photo library has just exceeded two million images (http://www.shutterstock.com). Launched in 2003, Shutterstock is a leading stock photo agency known for its outstanding photo library and pioneering, straightforward subscription model. Shutterstock's collection of premium, royalty-free images grows by about 25,000 images each week and has fully doubled in size in the past 10 months.

Corporate Image Libraries™ by Dana Hursey Photography

Creating proprietary image libraries for corporations and medium sized firms as a long term and more cost effective alternative to stock photography. Creating customized imagery tailored to specific client needs and moves away from the "one-photo-fits-all" disadvantages of using stock photography

West Hollywood, CA, June 25, 2007 (PRWeb). The Lighthouse Imaging Group announced today the launch of a unique Corporate Image Libraries™ concept developed and operated by Dana Hursey Photography.

blinkx Launches AdHoc, the First Contextual Online Video Advertising Platform

AdHoc Delivers Emotive Power of TV Advertising, with Relevance and Utility of Contextual Search Advertising

San Francisco, CA, June 25, 2007. blinkx, the world's largest video search engine, today unveiled AdHoc, the first contextually relevant video advertising platform. Just as Google's AdSense transformed advertising on the Text Web, blinkx's AdHoc platform will revolutionize video advertising by matching compelling, customized, TV-style ads to your audience on the Video Web.

ImageSpan and Zimmerman Advertising Partner to Bring the Next Generation of Image Licensing

... and Local Area Content Creation to the Automotive Industry

Sausalito, CA, and Ft. Lauderdale, FL, June 25, 2007. ImageSpan Inc.(TM), a licensing and billing automation platform for digital media, and Zimmerman Advertising, an Omnicom Group agency, announced their partnership to embed ImageSpan's licensing automation technology, LicenseStream, into Zimmerman's Pick-n-Click Ads.com(TM), the world's first virtual advertising agency.

SnapVillage by Corbis Takes Fresh Approach with Next Generation Microstock Marketplace

Innovative Beta Website Empowered by Corbis Combines Best Features of Consumer Photo-sharing Sites with an Online Marketplace to Create a Distinctly Better Place to Buy and Sell Affordable Photography

Seattle, WA, June 25, 2007. SnapVillage, empowered by Corbis, today announced the beta opening of a fresh, interactive and innovative online marketplace for user-generated photography at http://www.snapvillage.com. The new website has no membership fees and is now accepting submissions from photographers anywhere in the world and offering image licensing in the United States.