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When users search stock photography websites, they are only sometimes looking for cookie-cutter images but, occasionally, they perform genuinely bizarre image requests.

German technology and stock photography company EyeEm has reportedly filed for bankruptcy and is insolvent.

It doesn't look good for Meta as the company is trading at its lowest stock value since 2019, advertisers are dropping spending, and users are leaving its platforms.

Photographers are facing a growing problem over unpaid royalties with stock agency EyeEm allegedly in some difficulty.

Photographer Mattia Bicchi recently spent seven days in London to capture gorgeous timelapse and hyperlapse footage of the United Kingdom's capital city in 4K.

Photo stock agency Dreamstime is tackling copyright infringement by attempting to "educate" violators in the hope they will become legitimate customers.

In May, Shutterstock acquired the world's largest video-centric stock agency Pond5 for $210 million. While greatly bolstering its own library, the acquisition also gave it the benefit of taking that footage away from rival Adobe Stock.

Getty Images has announced what it says is the industry's first model release that reflects advancements in data privacy and security as well as covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and biometric data security.

Smarterpix, Germany's leading stock photo agency, has announced an industry-first: a set of stock portraits that are 100% generated by artificial intelligence (AI) and available for legal licensing.

B.J. Novak is best known for acting in, writing, directing, and producing the hit TV show The Office. Over the past several years, however, his face has also appeared in all kinds of products around the world... completely without his knowledge or permission.

Recently, the creators behind Mango Street shared how their stock photos made them $47,000 in one year, but how realistic is this scenario for other photographers to emulate?

Shutterstock has announced the acquisition of PicMonkey, an online photo editing and design platform, for $110 million.

After over half a century as a privately-held business, the Swedish lighting company Profoto went public today, listing its shares on the Nasdaq Stockholm stock exchange. As a public company, Profoto is now required to publicly disclose its financial performance for the first time.

It was so close to the first of April, it sounded like an April’s fool hoax: the gentle freedom-loving all sharing company would be selling to the greedy capitalistic money-making titan. Or, in other words, Getty Images was acquiring Unsplash. The two unlikely partners officially became at the end of April, sending ripples through the stock photography world and beyond.

Shooting timelapse is certainly a lot of fun, but trying to sell them and make money is an entirely separate story. So that leads to the question: how can you monetize the planning, time spent shooting, and the effort of editing hundreds or thousands of pictures into extra income or maybe a new career?

Kodak's stock price has gone on quite a roller coaster ride over the past week after the company announced a $765M US loan to pivot into generic drug production. But it's not just the price people are talking about -- unusual trading activity and a stock option grant to Kodak's CEO are also making headlines.

Kodak's stock skyrocketed severalfold today, and it had nothing to do with the company's long-established business in the world of photography. News broke that Kodak had secured at $765 million loan from the US government to shift its attention to producing ingredients for generic drugs.

For those who are anywhere near the microstock photography industry, you may have noticed that there is a lot of shouting going on at the moment about the latest release from Shutterstock.

Activist investor Daniel Loeb is reportedly using the current low stock prices to build a bigger stake in Sony and "push for changes," including spinning off the brand's image sensor business into a separate entity called Sony Technologies.

It is very hard to find any positives in the virus that is sweeping the world and creating havoc with every economy. But one thing that is happening in our stock world is that images and videos are being sought by buyers that just never existed before.

While looking at my own images on Shutterstock, I noticed the Shutterstock algorithm was suggesting my photos as “similar” images. I thought it was a bug on the Shutterstock website until I noticed that others had downloaded my photos from other sites then uploaded them to Shutterstock. Shutterstock’s similar photos algorithm then noticed this and suggested the stolen photos along with my photos.

I should start off by saying that I am not a big contributor to stock photography agencies. I did take the plunge into agencies like Shutterstock and Getty Images when I was moving into digital 10 or so years ago, but I found my niche elsewhere.

Landscape photographer Rachel Lerch spent the past three years selling some of her photos through stock agencies. In this 20-minute video, Lerch shares all the truths she has learned about how the story photo industry works and whether it's worth getting into.