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Buzz Foto counting on experienced photojournalists to drive future growth
Buzz Foto, a paparazzi agency from Los Angeles, has announced that it is basing its corporate growth plans on recruitment efforts to attract the best experienced photojournalists. Buzz Foto was founded in 2006 with what the company describes as a “talented, yet untrained, pool of photographers.” Due to increasing competition in the marketplace the company is looking to develop a roster of top-tier photography talent in order to stand-out from the crowd.
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- Buzz Foto counting on experienced photojournalists to drive future growth
- Mazer Corporation launches stock photography business to serve educational publishers
- Africa Media Online conducts African Photo Entrepreneur Program for photographers
- ArabianEye produces medical, vacation, luxury lifestyle, and youth RM collections
- Fotosearch acquires micro-payment company Can Stock Photo
- McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, adopt PLUS Image Licensing Standards
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Mazer Corporation launches stock photography business to serve educational publishers
The Mazer Corporation, an educational publishing company based in Dayton Ohio,has announced that it has launched a stock photography licensing business called Mazerstock. The Mazerstock archive features imagery focused on K–12 and postsecondary education and related imagery. “Mazerstock has eliminated the need to sift through commercial content while looking for appropriate editorial content,” said Content Manager Lydia Mazer. “We’ve worked to create a diverse collection of world leaders in stock photography and independent photographers, and we’ve hand-filtered every single image to make sure that it is educationally appropriate.”
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Africa Media Online conducts African Photo Entrepreneur Program for photographers
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Africa Media Online, the parent company of Africanpictures.net, has announced that it has hosted an educational program with a select group of professional photographers called the African Photo Entrepreneur Programme (APEP). The program was created to empower African photographers to become globally competitive and included an initial session with 40 photographers who were invited to the first training session in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pietermaritzburg last August. The partipants originate for as far afield as Kenya, Nigeria and Liberia, and were selected from among more than 150 applications in a process that included a portfolio review and in-person interviews.
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ArabianEye produces medical, vacation, luxury lifestyle, and youth RM collections
ArabianEye, a stock photography agency based in Dubai and specializing in imagery of the Arab and Islamic world, has announced that it has produced four new specitly rights-managed (RM) collection on such topics as medical, vacation, luxury lifestyle, and youth. Each the new collections features approximately 1000 images that have been produced and are wholly- owned by arabianEye.
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Fotosearch acquires micro-payment company Can Stock Photo
In a message to its membership community Can Stock Photo, a micro-payment founded by Duncan Enman in Halifax, Canada, has announced that it has been acquired by Fotosearch a royalty-free stock photography portal in Waukesha, WI. Similar to when Getty acquired iStockphoto, Fotosearch has decided to continue operating Can Stock Photo as a separate company Enman, who created Can Stock Photo while a university student in Nova Scotia, Canada, will remain involved with Can Stock Photo.
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McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, adopt PLUS Image Licensing Standards
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS,) an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating standard image usage rights terms and definitions, has announced that tree major publisher have announced that they will adopt the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary definitions in their contracts. The three publishers, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, have also committed to encouraging image suppliers to begin embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within one year. “The PLUS standards benefit publishers and their suppliers by simplifying and clarifying the process of licensing and managing images. We are in the process of implementing PLUS standards, and we would find it very useful for our image suppliers to adopt PLUS standards as well.” stated Bonnie Beacher, Senior Director of Contracts, Copyrights and Permissions at McGraw-Hill Education.
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VIEW Pictures hosting Photographers’ Open Day
London based VIEW Pictures, a specialty stock photography library with more than a decade of experience offering architecture and interior design imagery, has announced that it is hosting an event called ‘Photographers’ Open Day’ on the 25th of November. The Open Day has been organised to allow View Pictures to reach new photographers and provide artists with a chance to meet the team, and network with View’s leading photographers.
Jupiter records a $22.6MM Loss for 3Q08
On the heels of the announcement of an agreement for Getty Images to purchase Jupiter Media’s image division, Jupiter announced its 3rd quarter 2008 results. The company saw total sales drop by 11% from $$34.8MM in the 3rd quarter of ‘07 to $31MM, this year. On an unusually brief conference call with analysts about the third quarter results, CEO Alan Meckler stated that the poor performance was due to wide-spread problems in the general economy. “...but we’re doing something about it,” he added, referring to the Getty deal. Beyond that, Meckler said he would have no comment about the proposed sale of Jupiter Images.
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Picture-House NY Gaining Steam
This year’s annual picture buyer fair in New York City broke records for vendor participation and buyer attendance. The eight-year old event, run by PictureHouse Marketing US, LLC, took place on October 29th at the Altman Building in Chelsea and attracted over 100 stock photo companies. Most importantly, the number of stock photo users and buyers exceeded 850, a nearly 25% increase from the previous year with more ad-agency personnel as opposed to editorial buyers in the mix.
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BAPLA appoints Simon Cliffe to post of Executive Director
The British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA), a trade association for picture libraries in the UK with more than 380 members, has announced that it has concluded it search for an Executive Director with tha appointment of Simon Cliffe. Cliffe will assume the post, vacated by Linda Royles earlier this year after 10 years in that role, in early 2008. Commenting on his appointment Simon said; “Representing this industry during such a time of change represents a challenge that for me, no good leader with any self belief could have turned down. The first two or three waves of the digital explosion are behind us but I believe there’s plenty more to come. If we can embrace that properly and in a timely manner, we can not only ride any storm thrown at us by the credit crunch but also build an extremely exciting future for this industry. The plans for BAPLA are ambitious, the members of BAPLA are talented and I can’t wait to get started”
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Shutterstock reaches milestone of 5 Million Images
Shutterstock, a New York City based micro-payment stock photography subscription service, has announced that it has attained a new milestone surpassing 5 million images in its collection growing at a rate of 70,000 images per week. The company also recently touted that it has surpassed 100,000 editorial images. “Since January, we have added over 2 million new royalty-free images to our library, and our weekly library growth rate has recently reached more than 70,000 new images per week,” said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock.
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Dreamstime reaches 4 million images and 1 million users
Dreamstime, a Brentwood Tennessee based micro-payment stock photography business, has announced that it is celebrating a two-fold achievement. First the company has attained 1 Million registered users supported by a growing collection that has recently topped the 4 Million mark doubling its library of images in less than 12 months. “Our success is based on an absolute supply and demand premise; you need images for buyers and buyers to increase the demand for images,” states Serban Enache, CEO and co-founder of Dreamstime.com.
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StockShop launches OnDemand assignment service
Stockshop, a small boutique rights-managed (RM) stock agency from Boston has announced that it has launched an OnDemand service allowing buyers to commission assignment photography. “Increasingly, our clients were looking for the flexibility and control of a custom shoot, without the intensive manpower and expense.” stated Maggie Hunt, President and Owner of StockShop LLC. “On Demand provides creative professionals with fresh solutions to their image needs.”
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KeyIndia Graphics partners with Pictory AG to offer outsourced imaging services in Germany
KeyIndia Graphics, an Indian company offering photo retouching, scanning, keywording and digital asset management solutions has announced a new partnership with Pictory AG in Mainz, Germany to offer out-sourced services in the German market. Pictory AG is a startup founded by Clemens Molinari, a well-known veteran in the German prepress and imaging business. Molinaristates “interest in
outsourcing services in the imaging business will grow enormously. We are very happy we found a partner renowned for quality and reliability because this is the key issue in this business.”
