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Imagesphere Summit 2012 Recap
Recently, Luminate hosted their Imagesphere Summit, a unique event that discussed the emerging opportunities around the boom in images. The event brought together people from the technology, media and publishing sectors to share their insights on the ever-increasing role images play in the success of web experiences. The message from the event was clear: Images...
ImageIRC reaches the 100 million image mark
ImageIRC Now Ensures That More Than 100 Million Images Get Their Credit! We are proud to announce that the ImageIRC registry now includes more than 100 million images from over 200 image partners. These images include content from numerous collections and partners, including a significant portion of new content from Getty Images. With this new...
Luminance 2012 Recap
We want to congratulate the friendly folks at Photoshelter for putting on an amazing conference last week. Their Luminance conference brought together a diverse collection of luminaries (yes, pun intended!) to discuss the intersections between technology, business, photography and visual culture. Sounds heavy? To a degree it was. Fortunately, their speakers delivered talks that informed,...
Elaborating on the ImageIRC Post-Usage billing Service
Earlier this week, Fred Wilson of AVC wrote a thought-provoking post that calls for “Fast, Fair, and Frictionless Content Licensing On The Internet” to address the complexities of image licensing and compensation within image-rich platforms. In this post, Fred mentions the ImageIRC and how it can facilitate “instantaneous real-time self service licensing on the Internet.”...
Announcing the ImageIRC Post-Usage Billing Service!
Today, we are excited to announce the first implementation of the ImageIRC Post-Usage-Billing Service. The ImageIRC Post-Usage Billing Service is a service that facilitates credit and compensation of professional imagery shared on social image-sharing platforms. This new solution will ensure that professional imagery shared by platform users is properly credited and licensed. We’re excited about...
Searching for Images on Safari and Chrome Just Got Easier
Today was an exciting day for the PicScout team. We started off the day by hosting a successful webinar on image copyright with Noam Galai, who recounted the fascinating story of how his self-portraits were taken from his Flickr account and used in more than 40 countries around the world. In addition, copyright attorney John...
The Power of Guerilla Marketing
Macworld 2011 was taken over by a sea of pink last Thursday and Friday as PicScout set out to spread the word about ImageExchange among the 40,000 Mac enthusiasts who registered for the 4-day conference and trade show. Guerilla marketing works well when you can combine user enthusiasm with a legitimate reason for being at...
Promoting the Latest in Imaging at Macworld
Over 40,000 consumers will be at Macworld in San Francisco this week, and PicScout will be there in a sea of pink to greet them. On Thursday and Friday, the PicScout team will promote ImageExchange and SnapilyPro, our co-sponsor for the event, to crowds of Apple enthusiasts. To make sure people don’t miss us, and...
Growing the Image Marketplace through Social Media
Controlling your marketing impact is no longer tied so tightly to your carefully crafted “Brand Identity,” how you want to be perceived. Today, your “Brand Image,”’ the perception in the mind of your audience, is far more likely to be shaped by what your users and detractors have to say about you. Whether it’s on...
ImageExchange Powers Creative Economy Online
There’s an “unintended Napster effect” taking place today in the world of digital publishing. With the advent of the iPad and other digital devices, software solutions enabling Web 2.0 “presto publishing,” and the proliferation of social networking sites like Facebook, where everyone shares everything, unintended use of rights-protected images is running rampant. Case in point:...
A Designer’s Perspective: How One Tool Eliminates Hours of Frustration!
By Craig Hooper, Analogue, a boutique design studio based in Ottawa, Canada All professions have their share of frustrations, and I think many creative professionals would agree that some of our more common frustrating moments occur when we’re searching for images. The other day I found myself in one of those moments. I was looking...
In a World of Immediacy, the New ImageExchange UI Allows Creative Pros to Find Licensable Images “Right Now!”
Today’s world is all about “right now” – and when that immediacy involves digital devices – it’s all about simplicity and minimal clicks to serve your needs. When you combine this immediacy with using digital images, it’s all about Instant Image ID for creative pros and ensuring Every Image Gets Its Credit for content creators....