looks like Getty is joining the mobile stock photography (again) with a new contributor app. Anybody else here got the email about their new Moments app?
Can't count them anymore already it's pocketstock, foap, clashshot, scoopshot, the fotolia app, eyeem........., You have a lot of apps to download to join the mobile stock photography market.

Yes it will be interesting which ones will stay, if any.....

I wonder if this is tied to the Yuri/Scoopshot deal.

I think if the obstacles get sorted out that mobile stock is going to be a significant part of the industry in the next few years. The model is still young. But buyers have been asking for more "real" and timely pictures and we now have higher megapixel phones putting out good-enough images. Seems like the timing is right for this.

With Scoopshot the big obstacle seemed to be quality control. There's no review process. Some of the images I saw were interesting but most seemed unusable. How would they weed out completely unusable images? With Moment, using existing experienced contributors with a review process mostly overcomes that problem.

But in order for this to be effective they will need a lot more contributors in order to get worldwide content to fulfill requests quickly. That means they will probably wait to see what gaps they end up with and then start letting in a lot more amateur mobile contributors. We already had this pro vs amateur shakeout with marco and micro. Looks like a potential flood of mobile amateurs could be coming. 

Will be an interesting next few years.

Eventually one will grab the market interest. Hopefully that will be by making an attractive opportunity for "citizen journalists" and fruitful for buyers, at the same time.

If you pay artists almost nothing, you get what you pay for. Total crap.

If you have ineffective reviews, you populate the site with unattractive images that will drive potential business away, forever. Buyers don't want to wade through pages and pages of snapshots.

I thought the promo for Scoopshot was somewhat like assignments, where people make a request and the photographers fill that order? (I could be wrong about reading that into it)

I might add for anyone watching, that many of the sites I've looked at, claim to be phone shots and the best photos are from Nikon and Canon DSLRs, not Phone Cameras. Basically the phone is just the way to upload through an App. There are some nice phone cameras and images, but the best quality are many times someone's entire Microstock portfolio, reduced or ported over to the phone and uploaded.

SOS

Check out FOAP and see what's there. Kind of a self review where in order to upload, you must review others. Very strange. But look at the metadata on some of the photos and you'll start to see, they are not phone camera shots, in many cases.

Getty Introduces Moment App:

http://appshopper.com/photography/getty-images-moment

Notifications when new photo requests are available Sounds like Scoopshot? How about Imagebrief?

Yes it will be interesting which ones will stay, if any.....

What kind of "mobile image" is it that is selling?  What defines it as a "mobile image" apart from being shot on a phone?  Is it something you couldn't do with an SLR?  Is it released?

Images from Getty Moment contributors have gone live today on the site, for those who might be interested.