Category: Industry News

The GSIM (Global Stock Image Market) Research Group have published their 2012 research into the stock media market:

“In 2012 the GSIM Research Group carried out the first ever global survey on over 2,400 image suppliers on a truly worldwide basis. With a response rate of over ten per …

North Plains, have announced today that they have acquired UK based vendor, VYRE:

“This acquisition continues our rigorous focus on enabling North Plains customers to better connect and engage with their target audience by unleashing the power of their visual media,” said James Christopher, President and CEO, …

Ralph Windsor of DAM consultants, Daydream is joining us as a contributing editor of DAM News to help Naresh and I with sourcing articles and writing commentary about the Digital Asset Management industry.  Ralph has previously contributed several articles for our features section, as well as helping Naresh to …

Back in April last year, we reported how various investment websites were ramping the potential of Cloud DAM vendors like KIT Digital by highlighting how they used (abused?) their contracts with clients to lock them in for 24 months to help guarantee a certain level of ‘income visibility’, as financial …

As reported in Press Gazette on Friday, paparazzi photo agency, Big Pictures, are currently undergoing  ‘cashflow problems’ and have been forced to clarify their position to staff:

“An email sent to staff today said that the company was not in administration and remains under the control of current …

As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, Getty Images, who own large swathes of the market for stock media assets have announced today that they have been acquired from former owners, Hellman & Friedman by a combined buy out consisting of The Carlyle Group, a private equity hedge fund (or ‘alternative …

As reported on WhichStockAgency.com (and sourced from TheNextWeb.com) Snapixel, a microstock photo exchange has closed its doors and will power down their servers on 31st August 2012:

“Snapixel originally launched in October 2009 as a hybrid between a stockphoto marketplace à la iStockphoto and a photo sharing …

Analyst, Forrester, have published a report on their assessment of the DAM market:

“In Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation of the DAM market, we identified 12 significant vendors in the space — ADAM Software; Adobe; Autonomy, an HP company; Canto; celum; EMC; Extensis, a Celartem company; MediaBeacon; North Plains; OpenText; Widen …

Createasphere have announced that entries are open for their 3rd annual DAMMY awards.  The award categories are:

• Best Storage, Archive, and/or Preservation Solution
• Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management during the Acquisition of Content
• Best Example of Asset & Media Re-purposing
• Best Strategy Ease of

With UAE residents spending at least 15 hours a week online, Steve Hamilton-Clark, CEO of TNS Mena, outlines how digital media is becoming a critical concern for brands in the Emirates.

“It is not simply about being good at digital marketing. It is about the success of the whole business …

Box.net announced last week that they secured another US $81m funding from NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors.  We have mentioned a number of times before how Box.net are more of a threat to their more expensive peers in both the ECM and DAM sector than …

The Adobe Max conference saw the announcement of a few acquisitions and new products which might show the direction the company is taking and some potential trends for DAM:

• Adobe announced they are acquiring Nitobi, sponsors of the open source PhoneGap system that allows end users to create mobile