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Citizen's Photography

  • 11-02-2009 1:57pm
    #1
    Covey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,368 ✭✭✭


    Professional and Semi-pros will be rightly saying "I told you so". Looks like the concept of Citizen's Photography might not be a runner after all.
    Getty Images-owned citizen photojournalism site Scoopt is closing. The small photo agency will stop accepting new images Friday, February 6. At the end of this post is the letter Scoopt sent to members announcing the shutdown.

    What went wrong here? Digital cameras and camera phones are wildly popular. Audiences and media companies adore user-generated content. Scoopt had the right technology and a huge distribution network through Getty. Citizen journalism is red hot right now. How come nobody can make a successful business out of it?

    To understand why, we need to look at how people behave when they're lucky enough to get a hot news photo. When a random citizen snaps a photo of something amazing (like the water landing of a passenger jet in the middle of a major city, for example), some kind of storytelling instinct kicks in. They want to tell as many people as possible, as fast as possible. They may also want to make money off their work, but that can come later. And so they seek out the channels that already reach millions of people: Flickr, Twitter, TV news, newspapers, etc. They aren't going to citizen journalism sites because these sites aren't as popular. Citizen journalism is still too uneven and too random to attract an audience by itself.

    The problem: To work, Scoopt had to be popular enough for the average person to know about it. And you can't get that popular if all you do is citizen journalism.

    More here


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  • #2
    Valentia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,764 ✭✭✭Valentia


    Reading some of the comments about that and other pieces on Scoopt it is not going to be missed. It looks like they wanted complete ownership for a year of any photos submitted. Photographers were better off submitting their stuff themselves to individual news agencies.TV.papers.

    In fact Getty Images themselves gets a fair roasting for the effect they have had on the freelancer. I have noticed myself how Getty Images are credited at the most innocuous events every day in the newspaper.


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