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How Many Images on the Internet?

By bobbigmac | Published: May 2, 2012

[Translate] A pretty thorough estimate of the number of unique images (photos and illustrations) on the entire internet, broken down by source. Most of the larger estimates are accurate to within a billion or so, the smaller ones to within about 25%, where figures are exact they’ve been retrieved somewhere between Oct 2011 and April [...]

Posted in Research | Also tagged answer, big, digital, facebook, how many, image, imagery, images, imaging, improve, internet, keywording, lots, metadata, number, photographs, photography, photos, picworkflow, question, worldwide | Leave a comment

Stock Photos & Technology with Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer

By bobbigmac | Published: February 10, 2011

[Translate] Shutterstock is a leading provider of stock photos, illustrations, and footage, with a collection of 12 million crowdsourced images. Shutterstock specializes in subscription products and pioneered the model of stock photography on subscription. Answering questions on technology in stock photography and the future of the industry is Shutterstock’s CEO Jon Oringer: You’ve made some [...]

Posted in Interviews | Also tagged copyright, creative commons, crowd sourcing, discussion, image theft, industry, info, information, interview, interviews, ipad, jon oringer, microstock, shutterstock, stock photo, stock photography, stock photos, technology, theft | 2 Comments

Online Marketing & The Future of Microstock with Yay Micro

By bobbigmac | Published: January 10, 2011

[Translate] YayMicro.com is an online marketplace where photographers around the world can sell their images directly to customers. YAY offer over 1 million Royalty Free images and illustrations, prices start at $1.50. The site is available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch and Norwegian. Japanese, German, French, Danish and Swedish are available as search languages. YAY [...]

Posted in Interviews | Also tagged 3d, agency, business, changes, developments, discussion, future, info, information, interview, ipad, marketing, microstock, new, news, online, online marketing, photography, stock, stock photography, technology, upcoming, yay, yaymicro | Leave a comment

Earn more from Microstock with the picNiche “Share” button

By bobbigmac | Published: July 29, 2010

[Translate] A new version of the picNiche Microstock Contributor Toolbar was approved by the mozilla reviewers last night and should be rolling out on auto-update today. I want to highlight a new feature of the toolbar which can help you earn more from your microstock accounts by referring image-buyers: The new “Share” button. You can [...]

Posted in Microstock | Also tagged affiliate, firefox, income, links, make money, marketing, media, microstock, money, picNiche toolbar, picz, picz.us, promotion, referral, share, share button, sharing, social, stock photography, toolbar, url shortener, urls | Leave a comment

Absolutely MUST follow stock photography twits

By bobbigmac | Published: June 11, 2010

[Translate] When advising microstock contributors running the picNiche toolbar to watch my twitter for updates or announcements, I quite often hear: “twitter is rubbish, I don’t care what so-and-so had for breakfast” or “it’s such a waste of time”, or “it’s just not useful to me”. Well here’s my response Twitter is helpful for your [...]

Posted in Featured, Microstock | Also tagged best, connect, follow, info, information, media, microstock, must, people, photographers, photography, sharing, social, stock, togs, twitter | 6 Comments

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