The stock photography industry is failing on its own accord, not because of macroeconomic conditions. My comment on Unsharpmasked: 2008 Stock photo market crash - So where do we stand today?
The macroeconomic condition is a small contributor to the failure of stock photo agencies, but not the cause: the real cause is the failure [...]
Tag Archives: business model
The stock photography industry needs to be unbundled
October 20, 2008 – 13:42
Lesson 3: Take advantage of the oversupply and target your brand, your niche, your fans, your customers
October 10, 2008 – 14:40
Abundance | London, England | Jun 2008
Continuing on the 5 Lessons series and following Lesson 2: Take advantage of the atomization of demand and expand the scope of consumption, here is Lesson 3…
In Lesson 2 we discussed how demand has splintered and how photographers have an increasingly larger set of options for products, versioning and [...]
Lesson 2: Take advantage of the atomization of demand and expand the scope of consumption
October 9, 2008 – 5:15
For the background behind this post check out Introduction: Five Lessons: How Photographers can Create New Business Models and Lesson 1: Photographers are your customers, not your competition. This is Lesson 2…
In the Introduction and Lesson 1 we spent a lot of time discussing what is going on in the photography industry. Now [...]
Lesson 1: Photographers are your customers, not your competition
October 1, 2008 – 7:45
For the background behind this post check out the introduction: Five Lessons: How Photographers can Create New Business Models. This is the first lesson in the series…
Where is the money in photography?
“The way to make money in photography is to sell stuff to photographers.”
The usual sources of income in photography are hitting a bit [...]
How can people define their brands in physical spaces using digital content?
September 15, 2008 – 11:04
Puddle | Quebec City, Quebec, Canada | Sep 2008
Print’s Advantage Over Digital (Really — It Has One) … and it’s not just form factor:
… there is a powerful snob appeal to being identified with a brand, and popular print publications are beautiful brands that, by association, say things we like about us. …
It isn’t [...]
Photrade: A photography sharing, licensing and syndication service without a compelling value proposition
September 9, 2008 – 21:32
Photrade combines photo sharing and a stock photography licensing marketplace into a photo syndication service that helps photographers control and license their images.
While Photrade offers a variety of sharing and licensing services, most of the attention about Photrade will focus on one aspect of its business model, the advertising-supported photography licensing and syndication [...]
Viewed - Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California
September 2, 2008 – 12:04
Viewed | Mt. Tamalpais State Park, California, USA | Apr 2008
Part 8,231 of “A Life Apart”.
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Also: great, wide-ranging photography from Jeff Hutchens. Every photographer should have a blog or a constantly updated website as a way to connect, to share, become an expert, show updated work and “participate” with the ranges of the photography community. [...]
Conscious consumption requires a different approach to marketing
August 20, 2008 – 10:21
Social | Bangkok, Thailand | Aug 2005
Albert Wenger at USV:
There are good reasons to believe that structural change to smaller units and individuals will continue and offers opportunities for new marketplaces.
Marketplaces as organizations; exchanges instead of firms.
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In the near future, advertising will no longer be the default revenue model for web startups. To start: [...]
How can photojournalism adapt to the low attention economy?
May 28, 2008 – 16:18
Traditional photojournalism is an objective, narrative mixture of journalism and art. Photojournalism aims to deliver a story by using imagery to raise questions and force viewers to investigate the images, the messages and underlying meanings of the work and create their interpretations.
It requires attention. Photojournalism is not out for the obvious statement, the [...]
