Getty Images and Bloomberg - Futurescape

Courtesy Photo Business News & Forum  Wed, 11/04/2009 - 23:31

Let's say you're Getty images, and you have to pay a staffer $350 a day, plus gear and other overhead, to cover an event, which would amount to about $600 a day.

From that event, let's say you have fifteen $25 sales of your wholey-owned content, or, even worse, 100 images fit the bill for a subscription model, where the per-image attribution is $1.50.

That's maybe about $200 in revenue from your wholey-owned content. Couldn't you cut out that $600...


 

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