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Inside the Shutterstock Zeitgeist
Terra.com
But the digital age has brought with it a new term, microstock, referring to online images, often crowdsourced from amateur photographers and artists, that can be bought cheaply and used by anyone, royalty-free. The first microstock company ...

Entrepreneur
Inside the Shutterstock Zeitgeist
Entrepreneur

iStockphoto founder re-enters the market with Stocksy
CNET (blog)
Bruce Livingstone, who founded microstock powerhouse iStockphoto more than a decade ago and left it in 2009, is trying again with a new stock-art sales venture called Stocksy. And he's doing it at a time when iStock is, if not necessarily vulnerable ...

Crowdsourcing Is Booming In Asia
TechCrunch
Shutterstock and iStockphoto have launched Japanese, Chinese, and Korean versions of their sites. Last month, we launched DesignCrowd in India, Singapore, and the Philippines. Another, more interesting trend is that Asian crowdsourcing websites are ...

San Francisco Chronicle
Blacknight Help Customers Bring Colour to Their Holidays with Fotolia Discounts
San Francisco Chronicle

Blacknight Help Customers Bring Colour to Their Holidays with Fotolia Discounts
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)

Blacknight Help Customers Bring Colour to Their Holidays with Fotolia Discounts
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Fotolia's library includes millions of royalty-free images, vectors, illustrations and video footage clips and they are the first worldwide microstock organization to offer both crowdsourced and professional images on one site. Neylon continues: “It is ...

Crowdsourced stock photography specialist Fotolia expands reach
Macworld UK
Regional Director of Fotolia South America Alejandro Ventura said: “Latin countries are full of talented photographers waiting to be discovered. Fotolia is going to help reach a worldwide audience by introducing microstock and licensing concepts to ...

iStockphoto is going to accept digitally signed model releases
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Finally, the microstock photographers can forget about having multiple paper model releases in their bags. In the next few weeks iStockphoto will start accepting iPad/iPhone and Android signed model releases that were generated using an appropriate ...