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Agency Based Discussion => Shutterstock.com => Topic started by: Jo Ann Snover on April 27, 2016, 12:07

Title: SS partnership with PR Newswire - redistribution?
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on April 27, 2016, 12:07

I missed this from last week:

http://investor.shutterstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251362&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2158740 (http://investor.shutterstock.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=251362&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2158740)

They did put it into their blog - I wish they'd link to things like this from the contributor home page as well

http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/shutterstock-pr-newswire-partner-bring-companies-easy-access-photos (http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/shutterstock-pr-newswire-partner-bring-companies-easy-access-photos)

It's great that they're forming new partnerships and excellent that they'll be suggesting images based on keywords in the press release. What I wonder as a contributor is how we get compensated for the many times those press releases appear all over the place - I assume now with our photos in the redistributed release.

I know this isn't the first time this sort of thing has come up - syndicated articles with stock photos in them generally only net us one license, I think (I vaguely remember some discussion about this at iStock 5 or more years ago). Shouldn't we receive a larger royalty or some type of extended license when an image is going to be used by multiple publications as they "reprint" online the press release with one or more images?

From the press release:

"Shutterstock images are available for use at no cost to PR Newswire members with the purchase of any current photo distribution option."

So I assume the PR Newswire member pays extra for this photo distribution option, but what about compensation to the contributor?

Has anyone seen anything about the contributor end of this?

Title: Re: SS partnership with PR Newswire - redistribution?
Post by: etudiante_rapide on April 27, 2016, 13:02

good point. seems that ss is cornering the editorial market strategy long term.
i too hope that this would mean a return to see those missing $28-120 single dl earnings,
although for me, these large single earnings were all commercial.

but u r right, it should be ex lic . if not, i will be more careful with what i send them for editorial
in the future, and maybe start looking elsewhere. then again, who else pays more
for editorial than getty or ss these days???  more important, who gets dls for these
except for getty and ss.