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iStockPhoto CEO Bruce Livingstone
Kristopher Tate and I are here up in Seattle today in all day meetings with Getty Images as part of a blogger junket put on by Edelman PR with help arranged by Steve Rubel.
Bloggers attending here today include, Mark Bixby, PodTech’s Robert Scoble, TechCrunch’s Marshall Kirpatrick, Buzz Bruggeman, and Lockergnome’s Latthanapon “Ponzi” Indharasophang.
Update: Robert Scoble has a post here as well.
This morning Jonathan Klein, Getty Images Co-Founder and CEO met with us to talk about Getty’s business, where it’s been, where it’s at today, and where it is going. Bruce Livingstone, Founder and CEO of iStockPhoto (which Getty bought last year for million) is also here meeting with us.
I’ll have lots more details later about things going on at Getty, but here are some basic comments from this morning’s meetings.
Getty indeed is a powerhouse. Getty was Co-founded in March of 1995 by Klein and Mark Getty. The company today is the largest stock photography company in the world and included both stock images sold to marketers as well as editorial images sold from news events around the world.
According to Klein, Getty earns more money each year than their closest competitor, #2 Corbis earns in revenue. At present the site has over 10 million images to search and has 120 million searches per month.
One of Getty’s most popular type of photography comes from their entertainment division. They just earned the most money ever from a shoot with Brad Pitt and Angelina Joele and their new baby. All money raised by that shoot was donated by both Getty and Pitt/Joele to charity.
The average price for a Getty image is about 0, although they have images that have sold for more than 0,000. iStock photo, by contrast, sells their average image for about .85.
Getty is focused on getting shots by the Pros up online while iStockPhoto is open to everybody. iStockPhoto adds about 25,000 new photos into their library each month. These photos are selected by a staff of about 45 editors who look for specific photos that they think can sell. According to Bruce, their business is expected to take off much more in the future and they anticipate "hockey stick" like growth as they add new editors and more user generated content.
According to Klein, Getty is increasingly looking to broaden their business internationally. They are actively localizing their web properties in various languages and have one of the largest editorial photographic staff in Iraq today. Klein said that one of the big ways that Getty increases local photography around the world is to send their staff overseas to actually train local photographers who can then shoot for Getty.
Robert Scoble asked Klein about the social user generated content that is appearing on the internet and where he saw this going, especially as it related to editorial useage.
Klein said that he did not see Getty getting into the user generated editorial imagery just quite yet. One of the issues with user generated news photos is that Getty feels that they need to maintain high editorial standards to ensure that photos are not doctored, etc. before they are sent out to publications all over the world. Because of this high scrutiny they only use their pros for these types of shots.
Klein did say though that they were interested in the user generated photography from a consumer perspective but said that this was a business that Getty was not super knowledgeable in and that they would more than likely partner with someone in the future vs. build this type of a business themselves.
According to Klein, Getty Images’ success is largely due to the fact that they were one of the first stock companies to understand that the digital world was coming. They were one of the first stock agencies to aggressively build out a digital library and to digitize their content for online delivery.
I asked Klein if he saw room between the .85 iStockPhoto image and the high end Getty images and he said that he thought that Getty would continue to close in on this gap area in the future.
The biggest change coming for the stock business according to Klein is the proliferation of great images that are increasingly being created due to lower barriers to entry for fine photography. As the digital cameras of the world get better and better and cheaper and cheaper, more and more people are able to create stunning images. This is something that Getty is hoping to capitalize on by opening up Getty Images themselves to many more Pros in the future through paid site exposure on Getty’s site as well as capitalizing on the amateur images being created through iStockPhoto.
I’ll have more notes and photos up of our day at Getty later. To see shots that Kristopher and I have taken while up here in Seattle, you can click through here.
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If you are nervous about writing articles you can begin by submitting short posts, called Xomblurbs. These are just a couple of sentences about a website, article or news item with a link at the bottom of the post.
Pick your topic carefully as you will earn more money if you write about a popular subject. It will attract more visitors and the Adsense clicks will probably pay higher. Xomba lists the latest and the most popular posts.
When Xomba publishes your Xombyte or Xomblurb it also includes Google Adsense and splits the earnings 50/50. By rotating your adsense code with their own code your 50% goes straight into your Google Adsense account.
Do not expect to make a fortune, but Xomba gives advice on how to reach Google’s minimum payout of 0 a month and many people earn more. So why waste time chatting on social networks, when writing about topics you enjoy could be really earn money online.
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It’s all game over for Corbis and Getty, though.
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Yay! A local Calgary guy and company, pre-Getty. Good for them. Hope the event was fun – this photo world is a-changin’ all the time.
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