THE FUTURE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
After a lively “Fireside Chat” together at the 2015 DMLA Conference, Severin Matusek, VP of Community at EyeEm, asks his fellow panelists again how they see technologies will change photography this year. Stephen Mayes, Executive Director at Tim Hetherington Trust;Â Anna Dickson, Content and Community Photo Lead at Google; Â Taylor Davidson, Entrepreneur and writer specializing in […]
Photo-sharing startup EyeEm raises $18 million in VC Funding
Photo-sharing startup EyeEm has raised $18 million to accelerate the expansion of its recently launched photo marketplace according to CEO Flo Meissner. They currently have a community of 13 million photographers across 150 countries. The EyeEm’s unique social aspect to generating content in their marketplace gives them a “truer†feel than other stock photography and […]
Stipple Shuts Down
Image-tagging advertising startup Stipple Inc. has closed its doors. Â Although they were able to raise capital at had a valuation of close to $25 million dollars they were unable to become profitable in a timely enough fashion. See the entire article here Elaine Vitt
Alamy now offering vector graphics as part of its complete image solution for picture professionals
Affordable, high quality vectors with one price and a simple license 500,000 vector graphics available at launch, with plans to double the collection in the first year Stock photo agency Alamy has today announced its move to supply the image market with vector graphics as part of its strategy to provide a full service to image […]
Yuri Arcurs Sees Setsbacks for Microstock
Yuri Arcurs is pulling his images out of all microstock stock agencies, except for for iStockphoto, and investing $1.4 million dollars into Scoopshot. Will mobile be a major setback to Microstock? Read about his latest moves in this interesting article and form your own opinions. http://petapixel.com/2013/07/26/microstock-king-yuri-arcurs-says-mobile-is-the-next-big-disrupter/ Elaine Vitt
Lightrocket Launches Online Services
SINGAPORE — A brand new website offering easy archive management, secure cloud storage, personal websites and an online sales platform for photographers and visual artists has just been launched. The service, called LightRocket (www.lightrocket.com), revolves around an intuitive media management platform but also aims to become a valuable resource for picture buyers. “Anyone can sign […]