Lee Torrens, Microstock Diares, Moderator Of The Conference

Lee is probably the world-famous microstock blogger. Check out his blog Microstock Diaries.

Yuri Arcurs on CEPIC New Media Conference

Yuri is one of the world’s best-selling microstock photographers, and definitely the most popular one. Yuri talked about his path from ‘trying microstock’ to the current status when he run a full production company, operating sometimes $10,000 per-shot budget.

Yuri Arcurs on CEPIC New Media Conference

Microstock panel

Andres Rodrigez, Tyler Olson, Jonahtan Ross, Lee Torrens are listening to Yuri Arcurs.

Tyler Olson of the MicrostockGroup shows some microstock stats

Serban Enache, CEO Dreamstime

Serban talked about what made Dreamstime a success story and how to keep the leadership on the current market.

Metadata Panel

Dr. Chrisitan Donle, IPTC Metadata panel

“Online usage of images with no metadata is illegal in European Union”.

Metadata panel

Guys from European and US standard organizations talked about the importance of proper indexing images with their metadata.
Unfortunately, this mostly remains a nice theory since most images available today on the Internet come with no metadata at all. And it is illegal…

Photographer Jonathan Ross asking a question

Jonathan is one of the very few photographers who was flexible enough to adopt microstock very early. Now he is enjoying both worlds selling his images with traditional RF/RM and microstock licenses.

Jim Pickerell of Selling Stock particpates in debats

Jim asked very good questions trying to make parallels between microstock and traditional industry.

Taylor Davidson is trying to predict the future of microstock

Shannon Fagan, NYC-based stock photographer talks microstock

Closing note by Klaus Plaumann, CEPIC

Clousing note by CEPIC VP.

Want more pictures? Check out the great microstock blog by Roberto Marinello

Microstock agency PantherMedia is now offering its customers Pixamba’s new digital image management software, which simplifies stock photo management, sharing, comparison, rights control and license tracking as well as image search and licensing.

Read the press release

UPDATE May 2, 2:41 PM GMT:
This issue is fixed now.

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We have found a technical issue with SFTP uploads which froze the upload queue. At the moment the software fails to handle uploaded files with non-alphanumeric symbols in their names, like “image(2).psd” (brackets) or “My image.JPG” (white space)

We are working on the fix and will update you when it is available (hopefully very soon).
For the meantime please keep all the files names alphanumeric.

First week on the air was a bit hectic but went quite good. Everybody is busy in tuning the system and adding the new stuff.
We put Facebook and Twitter accounts on site. Please come and socialize with us on these networks!

Following the customers’ feedback, the Sign Up page was revamped, making “Free Account” sign up more visible. The registration process is now faster and easier than it was. We keep working on further changes, streamlining the user experience and sharpening our service message.

The challenge: Integration of media-centric virtual asset management suite designed to maximize users’ investment and minimize creative processing cycles.

In line with the consistent growth in the global microstock imagery usage microstock users typically consume and retain large amounts of licensed media assets, as well as produce more and further diverse creative digital output. The dramatic increase in microstock-based creative files manifests itself in more drafts, file versions and intermediate previews for the benefit of end users.

The challenge for these client organizations is to keep their image libraries efficiently organized, easily accessible and ready for consistent reuse. Media assets, both purchased and processed in-house, must be effectively indexed, cataloged, stored, retrievable and periodically backed up. Consequently, to protect and maximize their investment in microstock imagery, creative managers need updated and real-time visibility for each individual media asset, including when and how it was used, which versions are in stock, and the updated status of respective legal right for further utilization. Respective media files must therefore be governed by set policy-based usage permissions as well as by strict content security rules.
To achieve the required high level of operational visibility and efficiency microstock assets need to be managed by comprehensive data base applications specifically developed for this type of business and creative work-flow.