Category Archives: Microstock Photography
Alamy Reaches 24 Million Images
With the recent addition of around one million celebrity images Alamy has more than 24 million images available online.
Rachel Wakefield, Head of Sales at Alamy, said:
“We are extremely popular with newspaper and magazine customers and this additional entertainment and sports content cements our appeal. TV and film stars, royals and sporting celebrities will always be sought after “.
Asian Stock Photography Site Photokore Adds Hindi Language
Photokore, an Asian stock photography company, has announced that they have added Hindi search functionality to their web site. This is in addition to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Thai, and English.
They also offer landing pages in Arabic, Filipino, Malaysian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Asia is a fast-growing imagery market, but a large number of image buyers in the region do not read English. By providing support for so many Asian languages, Photokore is taking a lead in targeting the Asian stock photography market.
Pixmac Approaches 12 Million Images
Pixmac reports that they now have more than 11 million images for sale through their site and quickly approaching 12 million.
These include more than 750,000 submitted directly and many others via partners including Deposit Photos and Yay Micro.
Shutterstock Upgrades Content Editor
Shutterstock has upgraded their Content Editor to speed up the submission of images faster and add more powerful features.
“For a limited time, you can continue to use the Batch Editor or the Legacy Editor but you should switch soon, as we will be phasing out those tools.”
With their new content editor you can:
Albumo Relaunched
Microstock web site Albumo has been relaunched and is now part of the Fantero Network.
According to Fantero’s twitter posts images can be uploaded again and they will be launching a new email newsletter soon.
Albumo currently has over 700,000 royalty-free images.
It will be interesting to see if this microstock site will be more successful this time around.
Get more info or sign up to sell your photos at Albumo.
ThinkStock’s First Birthday & Contest
ThinkStock are celebrating their one year anniversary with a party photo contest. Submit your party photo and you could win an iPad. Or a trip valued at US$5000.
ThinkStock is a subscription-based microstock site owned by Getty Images that enables customers to easily choose from a selection of royalty-free images pulled from Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiterimages.
Fancy your chances in their party photo contest? Get the details on their Facebook page.
iStockphoto Wins Readers’ Choice for Best Place to Buy Stock
iStockphoto has been chosen by readers as the best place to buy stock, royalty-free, or rights-controlled images in the 2011 About.com Readers’ Choice Awards.
They were followed by Corbis Images, Getty Images (2010 Winner) and Shutterstock.
21 March 2011
