Stock image looks like a dead business walking to me. If the specific use case isn't important enough to hire an artist for it, I might just use SD.
Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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> Whenever I wanted to buy stock images, I was shocked how expensive they were. It's funny, because authors of those images (at least on Shutterstock) get basically nothing (like ten cents for photo, iirc).
That’s why we’ve built Catch+Release, to make sure that creators are equitably compensated when licensing their content: https://www.catchandrelease.com
The page mentions UGC in prominent places without explaining it, alongside vague claims like "You may now license the internet" and "Harness the power of authentic content". Am I not the target audience, are these things that visitors are simply supposed to understand?
Edit: doing a search, is this like YouTube results? I thought Getty images and Shutterstock were for photos you can put in an article, presentation, website, game, etc. There's also no license mentioned for any of the results that I see. I really have no clue what this website or its videos are about, even with the context of this thread
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s why we’ve built Catch+Release, to make sure that creators are equitably compensated when licensing their content: https://www.catchandrelease.com
The page mentions UGC in prominent places without explaining it, alongside vague claims like "You may now license the internet" and "Harness the power of authentic content". Am I not the target audience, are these things that visitors are simply supposed to understand? Edit: doing a search, is this like YouTube results? I thought Getty images and Shutterstock were for photos you can put in an article, presentation, w…
Fair point. Most of our users are marketers and producers who are familiar with these terms, but we could make it clearer to those who are not in the know. Thanks!
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
#44Whenever I wanted to buy stock images, I was shocked how expensive they were. I usually didn't intend to use them straight up commercially, but I felt like I should pay for somebodies work to produce these images. The prices were too steep though. Unsplash was a God-sent. High quality images with only attribution requirements, which I was happy to give anyways. But Unsplash was bought by Shutterstock and became "kind…
Stock images only have okay pricing (per image) if you use some sort of decently sized subscription. Anyone that only needs a few images are unfortunately screwed.
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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Is this a defensive move, against AI taking over the stock image market?
Not sure it'll help against AI eventually taking over. They can't compete on price, and the quality ceiling for "generic corporate announcement picture of diverse people smiling" is very reachable for the current gen AI.
Just don't show the hands of those people
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
#46Anecdotal, but I haven't bought a stock image since Stable Diffusion was released. Edit: with Flux, you can't even tell the difference: https://blackforestlabs.ai/
I'm a small-time Shutterstock contributor and my best sellers are all news-style images from actual events. (For example, when announcing a future conference, a publication often likes to illustrate the article with images from the previous iteration). While possible, those are more difficult to reproduce with AI.
Shutterstock used to have a program called "Red Carpet" where they endorsed independent photographers to help us get in to events as press. Then like all good things, it was shut down, no explanation given. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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I think Getty, Shutterstock and Adobe Stock are _the_ stock image agencies. If two of them merge, wouldn't that be enough for a "market dominating position" and therefore enough to get somebody involved?
The FTC is a political organization led by political appointees who mirror the politics of those who appoint them.. I think 2 years ago this would’ve attracted regulatory scrutiny, I don’t think it will as of Jan 20th.
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Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
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The FTC is a political organization led by political appointees who mirror the politics of those who appoint them.. I think 2 years ago this would’ve attracted regulatory scrutiny, I don’t think it will as of Jan 20th.
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Thanks for the input I guess? Anyway, I was just commenting on Lina Khan vs Andrew Feeguson’s stated intentions for the FTC:
> Ferguson will almost certainly scrap Khan’s signature merger policy. The departing F.T.C. chair — along with Jonathan Kanter, the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division — made a point of opposing far more mergers than many of her forebears. Not every case ended in victory, but legal experts said that her approach helped reshape aspects of U.S. competition law and slowed down the pace of M.&A. That approach is likely to end under Ferguson, an F.T.C. commissioner who has objected to Khan’s activist strategy. (He’ll have the votes at the agency, with Trump having also picked Mark Meador to join as a commissioner, most likely giving Republicans a majority.)
> In a pitch for the agency leadership position seen by Punchbowl News, Ferguson, who doesn’t need Senate confirmation, said he would “reverse Lina Khan’s anti-business agenda.”
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
#49The prices of photos sold by those services are insanely high. Those businesses would be much more profitable if they lowered their prices significantly, but I guess the greed overshadowed their mind.
> The prices of photos sold by those services are insanely high. That's because private citizens are not the target group of Getty, Shutterstock etc. - the target group are newspapers, TV stations, high-profile/fulltime YouTubers and media/advertising agencies. They all have these expensive stock photo licenses because that's cheaper than hiring dedicated photographers. Whatever shot you want - unless it's of your pr…
Right. There's no way you can provide meaningful compensation for photographers/artists from a target market of need some fairly random image/graphic for a blog post. But photographers on staff are expensive.
And even as it is, a lot of us who toyed with submitting to microstock for a bit mostly gave up. They don't even want a lot of nature/flower/landscape photography and once you've got pictures of people, you need to faff with model releases and the like--and you still don't even make beer money.
Re: Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge
#50I've been a (small time) Shutterstock contributor for over 10 years. You'd think they'd send a mail to the people producing the images to announce something like this, instead of waiting for them learning about it in the press.
You'd be wrong.