PicApp one asset in unlimited blogs

There is a new service called Picapp much along the lines of the idea I have already written about here, they have licensed images from some biggest stock sites including Getty Images, Splash News, Corbis, you just use a plug-in which embeds an image in the body of your blog, the image will carry an advertisement that is how Picapp makes it’s money, you do not download or copy the image just embed it, what effect will this type of service have on artist revenue.

 

Digital Artists new Logistics Model

Digital Artists

Digital artists upload their assets to many sites, spending lots of hours preparing and uploading, often different sites requiring different formats, attributes and keyword data, then digital artists receive different amounts of revenue per download per agency, artist with sales are paying for all the free space given away by agents to other digital artists, I think it is time for a new logistics model, one where the artist keeps controls their assets, the goal is to look at a better model for artists.