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Video Previews on Stock Footage
I’ve tweaked the preview-generator today so you can now upload videos to picWorkflow, without jpg preview files, and both the thumbnail/jpeg and a webp video file will be built from the uploaded mov. The video previews will display on-hover for the Workspace/Metadata and Workspace/Keywords pages. Should display for all browsers except IE (which doesn’t support […]
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Stock Photo Research Tool Rebuilt
Update: Moved to a new host. Send me feedback if you want this tool to stay up and running. I’ve built a new research tool prototype with new tech, to help you find ideas/topics/subjects for your stock images, i.e. what to shoot. The old one was hitting the database too hard, and built on difficult […]
Posted in Research Tagged ideas, keyword spamming, meteorjs, microstock, new, prototype, research, spam, stock photos, technology, tool, what to shoot 6 Comments
Stock Performer: Best of the Best
Luis and Oliver from Stock Performer gave a fantastic presentation at Microstock Expo (if you couldn’t attend, the full conference videos should be online in the not too distant future, you should totally check them out, since I’m in there too ;)) and published their raw data and full analysis on a very thorough and […]
Posted in Research, Tips Tagged analytics, data, info, microstock, number-crunching, stats, stock photography, stockperformer, tips, what to shoot Leave a comment
Introducing: Kozzi Images
Quick interview with Dan Kosmayer, founder of a new agency kicking into gear: Kozzi.com I’m finding his heavy use of technology driving growth at Kozzi to be an interesting and positive approach for a new agency, so figured I’d share this interview since Kozzi is now accepting all contributors 🙂 Bob: What’s the background on […]
Posted in Interviews Tagged agency, interesting, kozzi, marketing, marketplace, microstock, new, picworkflow, stock agency, stock images, stock photos, technology Leave a comment
Completed: picWorkflow Server Upgrades
You’ve probably noticed the picWorkflow website running ever more slowly recently, sorry about that, the demand for the distribution service has been steadily growing over the years. picWorkflow runs on a pretty slim margin and was originally built pretty quickly (2 weeks for beta version) so I’ve had to hold back from spending on major […]
Why picWorkflow?
I saw this video today, and it got me wondering… Why do I do what I do? At first glance it seems pretty obvious, I run my own small business because it a) gives me interesting things to do, b) keeps me motivated to improve my skills, and c) helps pay my bills. But that’s […]
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Microstock Expo 2013 – Don’t miss it!
Just announced today the dates, speakers and programme for Microstock Expo 2013 in Berlin. I attended and spoke at Microstock Expo in 2011 (and will be doing both again this year) and it was freaking awesome. I’m really looking forward to it again this year. I hope to see you and many other picWorkflow members […]
Posted in News Tagged awesome, berlin, conference, expo, mexpo, microstock, microstockexpo, stock photography, tickets 1 Comment
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