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Shutterstock has announced that it has acquired the world's largest video-centric stock agency Pond5 for $210 million.

Getty has announced that it will become a publicly-traded company. The company is valued at $4.8 billion and plans to list itself on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol "GETY."

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?

I’m sure most photographers have heard of Unsplash, the free-to-use stock image website. You upload any of your photographs, then after a short moderation process, they become available in the Unsplash library for anyone to download and use in any way they like.

The Canadian Internet Authority (CIRA), which manages all .CA domains on behalf of all Canadians, has followed up the success of its first set of extremely Canadian stock photos with a winter and cybersecurity themed "Series 2" set launched today.

Picsart has announced that it has secured an additional $130 million in Series C funding from a host of huge investors, with a post-money valuation of roughly $1.5 billion.

Panasonic's marketing department produced a set of images for a new product made entirely from stock images, and as part of that edited a photo of a White man's head onto a separate image of a Black man's body.

A Canadian woman has raised concern after discovering that a photograph of her mother mourning at a memorial site is now sold and licensed through Getty Images.

You don’t need to have a portfolio of hundreds of thousands of images to rank on the first page of the most visited customer queries. In fact, we found that 83% of Shutterstock contributors that rank on the first page of top-500 customer queries have less than 10,000 images in their portfolio.

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.

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

It looks like computer-generated digital humans are rapidly exiting the uncanny valley. Just take a look at Unreal Engine's impressive new MetaHuman Creator, which lets you create photorealistic "fake" people in just minutes.

Shutterstock is set to acquire 3D-render stock agency TurboSquid for $75 million dollars, investing in a future where photos aren't necessarily captured with a camera. TurboSquid's value appears to have soared amid the COVID-19 outbreak, as traditional photography was hampered by stay-at-home orders.

Have you ever wondered what alternates of iconic photos looked like? Iconic Licensing has acquired thousands of previously unseen contact sheets from some of the most celebrated photographers of modern times, including Terry O’Neill, Norman Parkinson, and Ted Williams.

Early on in the pandemic, you may have noticed that commercials did not deviate from norms, which led to a bit of a reality disconnect between viewers and advertisers. Eight months later, that definitely has changed.

PicsArt, a platform for finding images and editing them with AI-based tools, has announced that it is expanding its offering from just its app to the web, giving browser-based creators access to a selection of its tools, with more features rolling out next year.

A new "Stock Coalition" made up of photographers, illustrators, animators, and filmmakers from around the world is calling for a "global shutdown of Shutterstock portfolios" to protest the recent change to the stock giant's royalty structure. The industry body is asking contributors to disable their accounts for "at least one week" starting today.

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.