Author: Amos Struck

Masterfile Corporation, a stock image agency in Toronto, Canada, has acquired the assets of Crestock, a global microstock agency founded in Norway. Full text of press release follows: Masterfile Joins the Microstock Revolution CRESTOCK ACQUIRED BY MASTERFILE CORPORATION On July 1, 2010, the assets of Crestock, a Norwegian microstock agency (www.crestock.com), were acquired by Masterfile Corporation, a premium stock photo agency based in Toronto, Canada (www.masterfile.com). Masterfile is a privately-owned company founded in 1981 and is globally recognized in the advertising, publishing and stock photography community as a leading rights-managed and royalty-free licensor.  Crestock was founded in 2005 in Bodø,…

Interview with picNiche author Robert Davies I’ve been a great fan of the picNiche suite since the beginning. My readers already know these useful tools for online microstock photo market analysis and contribution. The server-farm man with a social soul author, Bob Davies, has created a range of valuable microstock related tools completely for free, with passion and professionalism. A little roundup for all of you that haven’t heard yet about picNiche… picNiche is a keyword search tool for assessing the supply and demand of online stock photography images from microstock sites. You search for a keyword phrase such as…

Andres Rodriguez and Jonathan Ross at CEPIC 2010 – Making Millions with Microstock, One Euro at a Time – New Media Conference This is the 3rd post dedicated to the panel Making Millions with Microstock, One Euro at a Time. It’s the turn of Andres Rodriguez, on of the top selling microstocker of the world. Andres, after 6 year of microstock activity, has about 25,000 photos on selling, sells about 1,700 photos working with a team of 7 people. The saturation of the market is driving his team to research quality and creativity but the costs have to be low…

Introducing Stockfuel – For creatives, by creatives Stockfuel is a new website to sell and promote creative stock products. We asked Jay Birch – web design, motion, videography and audio production – that created this new company, to illustrate us what are the peculiarities of this project. —– Stockfuel is a website to sell and promote creative stock products, including imagery, audio, video, vector, Flash and After Effects projects. The site is aimed at creative users from several different industries… film, print, tv/broadcast and web design.. to name a few. Our site is designed to be fast and easy to…

CEPIC New Media Conference: Making Millions with Microstock, One Euro at a Time (Part II) Tyler Olson – MicrostockGroup – A meeting place for microstock photographers Tyler Olson, full time microstocker, lymph and “leaf” of MicrostockGroup, has recently published the interesting results of the 2009 microstock survey, based on 413 people/contributors answers Microstock Survey – 2009 Results. During the panel Making Millions with Microstock, One Euro at a Time, Tyler presented some more insights and statistics extracted from the survey and from other sources. First of all, “Why do microstock photographers insist on ruining the stock photography industry?”; because “It’s…

CEPIC New Media Conference: Making Millions with Microstock, One Euro at a Time (Part I) Serban Enache – CEO Dreamstime The first speaker of this panel was Serban Enache, Dreamstime’s CEO that presented some impressive growth data of one of the top microstock site with a strong community of users: 2007 2010 Users: 350,000 (+20,000 monthly) +585% 2,400,000 (+100,000 monthly) Photographers: 15,000 (+1,000 monthly) +513% 92,000 (+2,000 monthly) Images: 1,300,000 +561% 8,700,000 Users online: 2,000 +375% 9,500 Collections: 3,842 +124% 8,629 Board threads: 6,543 +138% 15,622 Board posts: 54,218 +130% 124,848 The traffic site reflects this growth with 450,000 daily…

CEPIC 2010 New Media Conference: Yuri Arcurs Versione Italiana in coda al post This is the first of a series of posts about the recent CEPIC New Media Conference, stay tuned. The New Media Conference was opened by Yuri Arcurs, the top-selling microstocker, who presented his career and outlined some aspects of the future of this industry. The beginning of the stock photography journey of the current “Mr.Microstock” dates from 2005: shoots stock for fun and as a hobby while studying psychology at the University used friends as models 50$ budget for photo shoot 500 total images for sale on…

CEPIC New Media Conference Gallery Great meetings at CEPIC New Media Conference in Dublin. Here a first selection of 10 images taken during the conference and in the stadium area. Amos Struck (Stock Photo Press & many more…) – Robert Walters (Panthermedia)

Press Release Shutterstock Announces Search Upgrades, Including Real-Time Search Innovations make Shutterstock a superior choice for image buyers and photographers June 7, 2010, New York – Shutterstock, the leading global provider of stock images and footage by subscription, is investing aggressively in search technology with a series of innovations in the first half of 2010. Offering more than 11 million images and 180,000 footage clips, with search supported in 10 languages, Shutterstock helps busy professionals quickly find the right royalty-free content for any project. Shutterstock’s recent search enhancements include: Saved Search and Search Alerts, features that empower image buyers to…

Press Release Dream Group Launches New Stock Photo Site Stockfresh.com Budapest, Hungary – June 1, 2010 – After the success of the widely popular stock photography sites Stockxpert (stockxpert.com) and stock.xchng (sxc.hu), Hungary based Dream Group is entering the stock photo marketplace once again with Stockfresh (stockfresh.com) a brand new microstock offering. The new website aims to offer the best royalty free images in the market at prices everyone can afford – via a hassle-free, clean and easy to use interface. At launch the Stockfresh collection features over 100,000 images for sale from top stock photographers and studios such as…