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  UK photo and video creation agency Barcroft Media has a new name – Barcroft Studios – added new senior staff and reported a tenfold increase on monthly advertising revenue generated by the company’s digital content from January to December 2018. The company saw its shows reach 1bn monthly views in…

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Encyclopaedia Britannica and Binumi (video creation and content platform) have teamed up to bring video storytelling into Britannica’s global product lines with their first product LumieLabs™. They say: Named after filmmaking pioneers the Lumière brothers, LumieLabs gives K-12 school users millions of royalty-free multimedia clips structured around the curriculum, cloud-based editing and…

The Associated Press will provide live underwater video from a deep-sea research mission that aims to unlock the secrets of the Indian Ocean. AP is the only news agency working with a team of British scientists from the Nekton research team, who will explore depths of up to 300 meters (1,000…

Berlin, Germany based 25 year old photo agency Reflex Media will close it’s shop door at the end of this month. Owner Michael Symanowski told PhotoArchiveNews.com after we contacted him on the news via email:  “Hi Will, yes, indeed we have closed down the agency due to unsatisfying business development and, besides…

Congrats this week to PAN reader, Ex Corbis celebrity portraiture photo director, Kendall Higbee who has launched his own photo agency Matrix Management.  Based in Los Angeles the agency will be representing commercial photographers and has already signed Ben Riggott, Larsen & Talbert Photography, Ryan West and Brian Lowe.…

15,000 images from the Spaces Images collection are now available for direct licensing from Mint Images, and through Mint’s distribution partners around the world. PAN photo editor notes: • Mint Images is dedicated to creating the world’s finest commercial imagery that relates to our environment, sustainability and issues of health…

Time to test your creative skills here with plainpicture who have posted a quick quiz as part of their creative trends results for 2019. Click above or here to test your stock photo brain!…

For sale: The Fox Photo Archive sale by auction catalogue – Sotheby’s Belgravia 1976 – all proceeds to our Press Photo History project. This is a photocopy of the original sale catalogue A5 size …21 pages, description of library contents, photo examples, photographers, and subject list. More on Fox and the…

For sale from the PhotoArchiveNews.com library, all funds to our Press Photo History project. Camerawork Issue 9 from the Half Moon Photography Workshop (1977/78) A4 size opens to A1. Features Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths photo feature ‘British troops on Irish streets’. £12 UK | £15 rest of the world…

Good agency research-share here from Shutterstock who have compiled search and download data from their website to help predict what images creative and editorial photo buyers will be looking for in 2019. Top of the guide to the latest styles — based on billions of image, video, and music searches and…

Outdoor adventure and lifestyle stock photo agency  Aurora Photos  – co founded by photographer and PAN reader Jose Azel in 1993 has been sold to Cavan Images.…

    Press photo agencies ddp in Germany and ABACAPRESS in France have agreed a new strategic partnership  -‘join forces to increase photo production for their core business, and to develop innovative services for new markets and corporate brands.’ Having worked together since 2011 ddp has now strengthened the relationship acquiring…

Go full screen on this winter landscape stock photo gallery from Mauritius Images.…

London based editorial photo agency Panos Pictures have announced photographer Pascal Maitre as their first photographer signing of 2019. They say: We are excited to announce that Pascal Maitre, one of the most important and influential photojournalists of our times, is joining Panos. Over the past four decades he has documented life, politics,…