Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

AlwaysHD Teams Up with Stock Footage Search Engine Footage.net

Partnership Provides New Distribution Channel for AlwaysHD.com

Mobile, AL, June 24, 2009. AlwaysHD, the online marketplace for high-definition (HD) stock footage, this month became an official supplier for Footage.net, the premier stock, archival, and news footage search engine. Through the partnership, select footage from AlwaysHD's contributing cinematographers and computer graphics artists now is available to be searched alongside clips from Footage.net's 30 other stock footage suppliers, which include ABC News, BBC Motion, and Getty Images.

AudioMicro Upgrades Music Licensing Platform; Teams with SlideRocket

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AudioMicro upgrades its music licensing platform with a cleaner, smarter interface, and improved search tools; brings stock music and sound effects to the SlideRocket marketplace

Los Angeles, CA, June 24, 2009. AudioMicro.com, the web's largest micro stock music and sound effects licensing destination, has launched a new version of its website, targeted at purchasers of royalty free music and sound effects. New visitors to AudioMicro.com will find a completely revamped user interface and design, making it a rich and simple destination for discovering and licensing stock audio.

Visitors to the new AudioMicro homepage experience improved utility and design, including:

iStockphoto Debuts Best of Breed Search Technology and the Vetta Image Collection

Highly Relevant Results Cut Search Times By Up to 50 percent

Calgary, Alberta, June 24, 2009. A recent survey of more than 28,000 iStockphoto customers found that search and quality of collection are two of the top reasons for choosing iStock. Enter Best Match 2.0 and the Vetta™ Collection. The Best Match algorithm provides more relevant results and saves people time when searching. Seventy-eight percent of customers found it reduced search times - 20 percent of those said search times were reduced by more than 50 percent. Vetta is a collection of top-quality iStock images hand-selected for exquisite art direction and intelligently executed concepts.

In War On Web Piracy, Creators Say “Play Nice or Pay The Price”

C-Registry.us tracks web pirates who prefer stealing to dealing while enabling users to find and contact owners for permission to use their “orphaned works”

New York, NY, June 22, 2009. A new technology suddenly makes it possible for amateur and professional photographers whose work gets stolen online to track down the Madison Avenue ad agencies and Internet businesses that are ripping them off. Empowered with visual recognition and bulk upload capability, creators and rights holders now have both a stick and a carrot for web users of their copyrighted content.

Millions of times every day, people find images online they want to use, but there’s no photo credit and no way to contact the photographer.

Blend Images Announces the Launch of Rights-Managed Flex Packs

Seattle, WA, June 18, 2009. Blend Images, the world’s leading multiethnic stock photography agency, announced today the launch of Flex Packs, a new way of licensing rights-managed imagery on www.blendimages.com.

The new RM Flex Packs offer customers the ability to license the same rights-managed image for multiple usages at competitive rates. It’s a simple and flexible way to license rights-managed imagery for broad commercial use.

Filmmaker-Driven Footage Collection Framepool Gaining Momentum in All Facets of North/South American Visual Media Industries

New York/Hollywood/Paris/London/Munich, June 15, 2009. Framepool, the footage collection run by filmmakers, is making great strides within all facets of the visual media industries in North and South America, reports the company's founder and CEO, Dr. Stephan Bleek.

Over the past year, Framepool's newly-opened subsidiaries across America have fulfilled custom footage requests for major projects in advertising and entertainment. Highlights include JWT's most recent Microsoft campaign and Mother’s latest KY campaign, plus work with a number of agencies in South America; original documentaries for cinema and TV (including "Betty Ford: The Real Deal", "Build It Bigger: Abu Dhabi", "Act of God", "End of America"); dramatic TV series (including Fox's "Fringe" and ABC's "Castle"); nonfiction entertainment (including several Animal Planet series); and ...

Snapixel: Flickr Meets iStockphoto

Snapixel combines Flickr and iStockphoto to make it easy to sell and share photos

San Francisco, CA, June 10, 2009. Say goodbye to the old photography stock houses and say hello to Snapixel.com. Photographers and enthusiasts can get paid a fair price for what they already love to do and stock users have a fresh new resource to fulfill their creative needs.

Created by three photographers who were fed up with the current photo stock offerings, Snapixel offers photographers more than the traditional stock photography house. How much more? Well to start with, compared to the 20% photographers get from the sale of their photos from most other stock houses, Snapixel pays 60% to the photographer. That’s a huge difference.

Corbis Now Offering Retna’s Celebrity Photography

The latest coverage from the red carpet, film, music and fashion now at Corbis

London, UK, June 10, 2009. Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, and Retna today announced a new agreement to make Retna’s celebrity and entertainment photography available through Corbis.

With the new partnership, Corbis is in the process of adding 250,000 images from the Retna archive and will be adding thousands more of the freshest images every week from Retna’s comprehensive red carpet and breaking news entertainment coverage.

In Tough Economy, New Survey Shows Design Professionals Use More Stock Photography to Cut Costs

Over 40 percent say they are using more stock photos this year compared to last year, according to the survey by International Communications Research, sponsored by Shutterstock

New York, June 09, 2009. In an economic climate where graphic designers are often asked to produce more with fewer resources, a new survey by International Communications Research (ICR) shows that over 40 percent of designers are using more stock photography to lower costs in 2009 compared to last year.

Designers today have responded to the economic downturn in a myriad of ways, according to Ami Brophy, CEO of The Art Directors Club in New York, a top organization for art directors and designers in the U.S.

iSyndica Releases Video Syndication to Complement Microstock Photo-distribution Service

Sellers of videos on stock footage sites such as Fotolia® and Revostock® can now syndicate their content through iSyndica's patent-pending virtual distribution server

Nashua, NH, June 08, 2009. The lives of videographers seeking to sell content via the Web just got easier, now that iSyndica's revolutionary virtual-distribution server supports video syndication. iSyndica provides a single platform through which users can sell their videos on six different Web sites, saving hours of work spent uploading, tagging and submitting content to different sites. With iSyndica, users upload their content once and then choose the channels over which they want to distribute it.