August 17, 2006, 12.12pm • No comments (be first!) » • 630 Views

Scoopt moves to sort the stock from the scandals

Citizen photojournalism agency Scoopt has teamed up with digital picture distributor fotoLibra in a partnership designed to better identify newsworthy images from stock material.

Cardiff-based fotoLibra, an open-access photo house with 10,000 members, is an online channel for photographers to sell mostly timeless, high-quality images to publishers, advertisers and others, while Scoopt, which launched a year ago, offers to sell timely mobile and digital snaps to newspaper picture desks.

The affiliation will see the companies exchange mutual web links.

“Scoopt is more journalistic than we are,” gotoLibra managing director Gwyn Headley said. “Both companies felt that they offered complementary, non-conflicting services to their members and that the members would benefit from knowing about the other business in case they had suitable images. Since the announcement, fotoLibra has had 93 new members who say they come to us via Scoopt.”

Scoopt’s founder Kyle MacRae said in a statement: “[News] is a specialist area of photography where content is often more important than composition, but we know, by the range and quality of photographs being submitted to Scoopt, that our members are also producing great stock photos that could be profitably licensed for books, posters and advertising. This is where fotoLibra comes in.”