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Stock agency Alamy enters mobile photography market

Alamy, an international stock agency, has announced that it will now accept photographs for its Live News service taken with mobile phones and compact cameras

Stock Agencies 23 Jan 2013

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New stock photography service aims to sell cameraphone users' images

Foap, a new revenue-sharing app that allows cameraphone users to sell their personal photos, could prove more profitable for the site's buyers than sellers, finds BJP

Stock Photography 12 Jun 2012

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Alamy targets "the iPad generation" with its first collection of video stock

"The old world order of printed text on a page is no longer the best way to captivate media consumers," says Alamy as it launches into the motion imagery market with a fast growing collection of video...

Stock Agencies 18 Apr 2012

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Getty Images clinches Paris Match deal

Getty Images is adding 200,000 contemporary and historic photojournalism images to its collections after it signed a deal to distribute Paris Match's archives, BJP can reveal

Stock Agencies 10 Apr 2012

PLUS licensing registry needs photographers' support

Some call PLUS "the largest evolutionary step for the imaging industry since the internet arrived", while others remain wary of yet another system designed to simplify image licensing. David Hoffman, a...

Copyright 03 Aug 2011

Stockpiling trouble: How the stock industry ate itself?

The rise of stock imagery has led to falling rates for professional photography, owing to market saturation, unwise marketing strategies, the internet and amateurs, says Betsy Reid, formerly founding...

Stock Agencies 27 Jun 2011

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Getty Images in acquisition spree, snaps up PicScout and Photolibrary

Getty Images has acquired PicScout, an Israeli company that operates an image recognition system used by photographers to track the use of their images online

Stock Agencies 03 May 2011

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Stock Artist Alliance shuts down

Stock Artist Alliance has informed its members that the association will be closing down

Stock Photography 22 Mar 2011

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Keywording is key – but don't go overboard

Stock photo buyers say it's as difficult to find a decent picture now as it was 15 years ago, despite the billions invested in digitising images and selling them online. It all comes down to keywording...

Stock Agencies 09 Feb 2011

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11 Tips for 2011: Word Association

Keywording is a critical aspect of search engine optimisation for the photographic community in today’s ecommerce world, says Clemency Wright and Maura Framrose of Word Association

Business 27 Jan 2011

11 Tips for 2011: Make more from stock

Stock photography is potentially a great way to generate additional income, says Alamy's director Alexandra Bortkiewicz as part of BJP's 11 Tips for 2011 series

Business 26 Jan 2011

Corbis dismisses Costco deal backlash

Corbis has addressed photographers' concerns over potential copyright risks after it announced a merchandising agreement with Costco, a wholesale retailer of low-price merchandise for commercial use or...

Stock Agencies 03 Dec 2010

Alamy to bolster its news division

Alamy is taking its "news feed" to the next level, as it is now looking to recruit a "head of news" who will report directly to CEO James West

Stock Agencies 25 Oct 2010

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Q&A: Lewis Blackwell on Image Source

Lewis Blackwell in conversation with BJP on his recent move to Image Source

Stock Photography 14 Sep 2010

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Lewis Blackwell goes royalty-free

Celebrated commercial photography mind moves to Image Source

People Moves 08 Sep 2010

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Vintage Americana

Getty goes live with a new collection culled from the Hulton Archive featuring iconic images of the US

Image Libraries 24 Aug 2010

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