Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

National Geographic Magazine To Introduce "My Shot"

New tool for individualized web pages - Rob Covey of National Geographic Magazine Online Will Also Describe Success Of "YOUR SHOT" - Page Views for Feature Up from 140,000 to 14 Million a Month

New York, NY, Feb. 27, 2008. With today´s introduction of MY SHOT, National Geographic magazine will give thousands of users the option to create their own Web pages at www.ngm.com to display their best photographs and interact with them through the site´s cutting-edge jigsaw puzzle and memory sorting game applications. Rob Covey, managing editor and creative director of National Geographic Magazine Online, will announce the new MY SHOT feature today during a case study of YOUR SHOT´s success at "Magazines 24/7", the Magazine Publishers of America's 4th Digital Conference, in New York City.

Getty Images Announces First Two Winners of 2008 Grants for Editorial Photography

Ian Martin and Lorena Ros Each Receive $20,000 to Pursue Photojournalism Projects

New York, NY, Feb. 28, 2008. Getty Images announced today that Ian Martin and Lorena Ros will each receive $20,000 in funding, enabling them to pursue new documentary photography projects. In addition, each grant recipient receives collaborative support from Getty Images photo editors as they implement their winning projects.

Ian Martin’s project, “Hidden Minority: South Africa’s White Poor", looks at the little-known problem of white poverty in post-apartheid South Africa. He plans to use the Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography to spend two months expanding his coverage of this “minority of a minority,” people living on less than $40 (US) a month. By taking intimate, humanizing photos that require time and trust to make, Martin hopes to reveal poverty where many people don’t expect to find it, and in doing so, coax viewers to see all poverty, black or white, with new, less jaded eyes. Martin lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and daughter.

blinkx Partners with the BBC to Offer Latest BBC TV Programmes

BBC iPlayer Content Now Accessible Through blinkx

San Francisco, CA, Feb. 28, 2008. blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced a partnership with BBC iPlayer, the BBC´s online on-demand service, to give blinkx viewers direct access to the latest BBC TV footage. Through the partnership, BBC iPlayer programmes will be searchable and accessible via blinkx.com with a preview offered to users prior to viewing on the BBC’s iPlayer download or live streaming service.

A wide range of BBC programmes including comedy, factual, drama and some sport from all BBC TV channels are available to download or stream via BBC iPlayer and can now be searched for via blinkx.com. blinkx will index all BBC iPlayer content to make it easily searchable for blinkx users and allow them to preview the clip before being directed to iPlayer.

blinkx Survey of TV and Online Video Habits Reveals Surprising User Behavior

Double Dipping, Typers vs. Talkers and Media Multitasking Stand out as Common Activities

San Francisco, CA, Feb. 28, 2008. blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced the results of a new survey on television and online video viewing habits conducted on its behalf by Harris Interactive®. The survey, designed to shed light into the interplay between television viewing and Internet usage, revealed some startling results.

It’s Prime Time Online

There’s no question that the market for online television and video has arrived. According to comScore, nearly 136 million Americans, or 75% of total Internet users, watch online video. Similarly, a July 2007 report from Pew Internet & American Life Project entitled Online Video reported that 76% of young adults (age 18-29) consume online video, and that two-thirds of those individuals (67%) then forward those videos on to friends and family.

Alamy terminates contributor contract after model release issue

Oxfordshire, UK, 27 February 2008. Alamy has terminated the contract of a contributor for falsely stating that an image had a model release. The company, the largest stock photo site on the web, acted swiftly after being contacted by a member of the public who had appeared on an image marked as released but was confident he had never signed one.

The image was immediately removed from the site pending an investigation. After admitting he had provided false information, the contributor had his contract terminated and all images were removed.

BBC Motion Gallery and Mochila Partner to Distribute Premier Video Content

... to Global Audiences Across the Web

New York, NY, Feb. 26, 2008. BBC Motion Gallery, the footage licensing division of the BBC´s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, today announced a partnership with Mochila, the first global online media marketplace for text, video and photo content, to distribute its content globally to the over 3,500 members of the Mochila marketplace. The relationship allows for syndication of approximately 800 video episodes and over 60 hours of BBC Motion Gallery Short Programs to mainstream media outlets, blogs and other online entities through Mochila’s innovative ad-supported program.

With Mochila´s ad-supported model, BBC Motion Gallery will provide its content to Web publishers for free and earn a percentage of the advertising revenue that accompanies that content. Mochila´s suite of customizable widgets, including its proprietary video player, give web publishers powerful options for leveraging this world-renown content.

BAPLA Picture Buyers’ Fair opens doors to all image suppliers

London, Feb. 26, 2008. BAPLA has opened its doors to welcome all image suppliers as exhibitors at its annual event The Picture Buyers´ Fair, 7-8 May 2008. The opportunity, previously only open to BAPLA Members, is now offered to all image suppliers.

PBF is the largest event of its kind in the world for image buyers and is now in its seventh year. It offers access to over 15,000 images buyers via the BAPLA image buyers´ newsletter.

Of the 4,315 people who registered for PBF in 2007, over half (56.18%) attended. This percentage is higher than the event and trade fair industry average (40%).

Jupitermedia´s Stockxpert.com Announces New Microstock Royalty-Free Footage Offering

New York, NY, Feb. 26, 2008. Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM) today announced that Stockxpert.com, the royalty-free stock photography community, has expanded its product offerings and now includes premium royalty-free footage which are available in the most popular file resolutions and file formats and at prices to fit all budgets.

File formats include both standard and high definition video as well as Flash video to appeal to Web designers. Stockxpert.com now enables footage buyers to purchase the clips they need for their creative projects for as little as $10 at the lowest resolution to $50 for 1080 HD.

World-Class Photography from Jupiterimages Now Available on Imagekind.com

Strategic agreement will allow Imagekind customers to browse, purchase, print and frame over 10,000 high-quality photographs from leading image provider

Seattle, WA, Feb. 26, 2008. Imagekind, the world´s fastest-growing online community for creating, buying and selling custom framed artwork and photography, today announced a strategic agreement with Jupiterimages, one of the leading stock photography companies in the world. Imagekind users will now be able to browse and purchase over 10,000 high-quality photographs from Jupiterimages directly from www.imagekind.com, and then have them custom matted and framed with Imagekind´s signature museum-quality materials for delivery within days.

"Jupiterimages offers one of the world's foremost photography libraries and we're thrilled to partner with them to offer Imagekind customers access to over 10,000 beautiful, high-quality photographs they can have framed with museum-quality materials to enjoy in their own homes", said Kevin Saliba, CEO of Imagekind.

The Press Association Selects Attributor to Monitor Reuse of Its Content Across the Internet

Attributor´s First UK Implementation to Uncover Syndication Opportunities for Press Association Content

London, UK, and Redwood City, CA, Feb. 25, 2008. The Press Association, the national news agency of the UK and Ireland, and Attributor Corporation, provider of the world´s first web-wide content tracking and analysis platform, announced today that The Press Association has chosen Attributor to provide web-wide visibility and usage analysis of its content online, marking the first agreement of its kind in the UK.

Attributor´s platform will fingerprint and continuously monitor The Press Association´s original text content across the web and provide insight into when, how and where its content appears across the Internet. Attributor´s tracking service will allow The Press Association to tailor its content to online audiences and monitor the impact of new distribution and syndication services it implements.