| Thu, Apr 23, 2009 |
|
Le Monde Taking Cit-J Reportage From Demotix
And you thought “citizen journalism” was consigned to the online journalism dustbin of 2007? Not so - one site is actually doing a fine job of feeding amateur and freelance stories, photos and videos to the folks bloggers used to call “mainstream media”. Its latest win - France’s LeMonde.fr is joining Lebanon’s Future News and Nepal’s Himalaya Times in adding Demotix‘s 5,000-strong photo widget to its website.
Demotix, which takes a strong interest in reporters’ freedoms, was founded in 2008 - a good couple of years after the cit-j concept really took off - by CEO Turi Munthe and COO Jonathan Tepper to bridge what they saw as a gap between struggling conventional media and the emergent “citizen”-authored online and mobile journalism - more about the philosophy here. The site aims to broker photos to picture desks “for anything between $50 and $3,000 ... some photos and videos can go for $100,000s”. Demotix splits fees with creators, who retain copyright. It’s pretty much the same business model as Scoopt, Kyle Macrae’s cit-J site that was bought but later mothballed by Getty (NYSE: GYI) Images.
It’s been bearing fruit, with contributors’ photographs recently being sold for cover splashes to Egypt’s Almasry Alyoum paper, The Guardian andThe Sunday Times amongst others.
-
paidContent:UK
|
| Mon, Apr 06, 2009 |
|
|
AP Annual Meeting: Tests Begin On Mobile News Service; eCommerce Image Program Coming Next Month
Picking up from AP Chairman William Dean Singleton’s speech, Tom Curley, AP’s president and CEO, touted the service’s Digital Cooperative, which he described as a searchable content warehouse that allows for a broad range of digital revenue models, including paid content. As for the project’s initiatives, last year, the AP unveiled its AP Mobile product. More than 1,100 members have signed up to create branded news available on AP Mobile. Curley claimed that in the past year, monthly traffic has topped 38 million pageviews.
This week, the AP has started testing a paid mobile application with the BlackBerry. A pilot program for local ad sales will also be rolled out shortly for mobile.
Curley then turned to its revenue-sharing program. That will tie into the e-commerce platform that’s centered around the decade-old AP Image photo service. The e-commerce initiative will be launched next month. Curley pointed out that last week, AP became the exclusive licenser of NFL commercial images, a business it won from Getty (NYSE: GYI).
-
paidContent.org
|
|
|
AP Annual Meeting: Tests Begin On Mobile News Service; eCommerce Image Program Coming Next Month
Picking up from AP Chairman William Dean Singleton’s speech, Tom Curley, AP’s president and CEO, touted the service’s Digital Cooperative, which he described as a searchable content warehouse that allows for a broad range of digital revenue models, including paid content. As for the project’s initiatives, last year, the AP unveiled its AP Mobile product. More than 1,100 members have signed up to create branded news available on AP Mobile. Curley claimed that in the past year, monthly traffic has topped 38 million pageviews.
This week, the AP has started testing a paid mobile application with Blackberry. A pilot program for local ad sales will also be rolled out shortly for mobile.
Curley then turned to its revenue share program. That will tie in to the e-commerce platform that’s centered around the decade-old AP Image photo service. The e-commerce initiative will be launched next month. Curley pointed out that last week, AP became the exclusive licenser of NFL commercial images, a business it won from Getty (NYSE: GYI).
-
paidContent.org
|
| Wed, Apr 01, 2009 |
|
|
Life’s Revival Continues; Time Inc. JV With Getty Images Emerges From Beta
Time Inc.‘s Life magazine gets its full rebirth as a website today, as the company’s joint venture with Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) comes out of beta with 7 million images. The details of the planned launch were unveiled about six months ago at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s Mixx conference. Last week, I met with Andrew Blau and Bill Shapiro, the CEO and editor of Life.com, respectively, and VP of Getty’s iStockphoto Catherine Gluckstein, who was also recently named Life.com’s CFO.
The site, which is being sponsored entirely by Rolex for its first month, is organized along 1,000 galleries. “Curation” is Life.com’s philosophy. Blau sought to emphasize that the stress would be on professional photographers and content; the only real user-generated involvement would be celebrity curators like talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres. As for Life’s other partnership with Google (NSDQ: GOOG), an image archive launched in November, Blau also notes the key differences. “Google’s about image storing,” he said. “Life.com is about image finding… We deliberately wanted to make sure that this wouldn’t be seen as an ‘archival’ site. The photos are updated constantly and reflect the news, such as the recent flood fears on the Midwest. It draws back to what the magazine originally was: capturing what was happening, but through photos, not text.”
While other sites struggle with paid content, Blau and company have that issue nailed down as well. The site will make most of its money from advertising—in addition to sponsorships like Rolex, within the next three to six months Blau wants to have galleries that are specially sponsored by marketers. It will also have a major e-commerce function, whereby users create their own photo books from site images and then order them online.
-
paidContent.org
|
| Tue, Mar 31, 2009 |
|
|
AFP, Getty Images Sign Online Video Distribution Deal
News agency AFP and Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) have extended their image distribution partnership to include online video, in a move designed to bring in extra revenue from subscriptions and one-off payments. Getty’s entertainment videos will now appear on AFPTV, the online video news feed available to AFP subscribers, while Getty will also sell AFP’s videos through its website. Allbusiness.com reported last month that the deal will last three years, with either side able to pull out after 18 months. AFP is hoping the deal will boost its presence in the US, where it has 12 major clients.
The pair have cross-promoted and sold each others’ still images for years—and AFP says it’s an opportunity to build its online video revenue, which it claims is already in double digits. Getty’s coverage of sports and red carpet awards ceremonies will add another element to AFP’s traditional weighty news coverage from world capitals and warzones, which is produced from 40 offices across the globe and broadcast in seven languages. Release.
-
paidContent:UK
|
|
More News
|
