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[...] that an alternative business model involves providing the images for free, with ads, as noted by GigaOm. The site is now launching its public [...]

i dont see why anyone wants to pay if the same content comes for FREE?

[...] GigaOM reports that a new service will offer bloggers legit news photos for free. [...]

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[...] Legit News Photos for Free. Om Malik has the scoop on PicApp, where you can get legit news photos for free. It’s an interesting service, but I actually prefer to use something like the Voxant, a service that actually pays you for views of the latest news. I like free stuff, who doesn’t, right? Well, it’s even better if they pay you. Here’s sample content from today from Voxant, about the Republicans who have been instructed to blog, blog, blog: [...]

Someone always trying to make a buck at the expense of others. You can get a photos.com subscription and get unlimited photos (royalty-free). While you have to pay up front to gain access, at least you don’t have to run someone else’s ads on your site or blog.

There are also several free (as in beer) royalty-free and creative commons licensed sites on the net that sure beats ad supported images that allows someone to make money off of our own hard work.

I don’t see this service lasting very long at all.

embedding Flash instead of using an image? I would never do such a thing.

oh ohm….

you wrote:

“It’s parent company is Israel-based PicScout ….”

“It’s” ????

oh boy. someone needs to consult a good grammar primer. or maybe it’s time to hire a good copy editor, eh, blogger guy :)

[...] often see pics of famous people on blogs, they’re usually there illegally. I read about it at GigaOm, and I think it makes for a nifty tool to add to the arsenal for certain types of [...]

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The content is nice. But 1.) I am not able to control what is shown on my blog 2.) I don’t want a flash backdoor on my site used to push ads.

Are there any alternatives … ?

Great idea, hope it works out for them.

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Very interesting.

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Yes, I don’t see why you would want to run their pictures and their ads. Makes no sense. I mean maybe if there was a revenue share.

[...] Om Malik posted about PicApp earlier and assessed the service as follows: While most of us tech bloggers don’t have a pressing need for news photos to accompany our posts, the service can be useful for small websites and blogs that follow politics and news. Hollywood gossip blogs could find use for PicApp. [...]

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[...] company called PicApp. It’s been all over the blogoshere, so you may have heard of it. GigaOm wrote: PicApp, a San Francisco-based company is offering copyright news and stock photos from large [...]

[...] As Om explains, the site gives publishers access to copyrighted stock photography and news photos. Publishers, including bloggers, are free to republish the photos on their own sites using PickApp’s embed code. The code delivers both the image and advertisements. [...]

picapp rules! it’s the best thing ever!

[...] to a report at Gigaom, PicApp has advertising embedded in the photos and has a revenue share with the photos [...]

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Shnizel said:

i dont see why anyone wants to pay if the same content comes for FREE?

i agree whit you :)

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[...] an interesting post from Chris Brogan over the weekend, which pointed to this post at GigaOm. It mentions and demonstrates a new widget from PicApp. More importantly though it discusses the [...]

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[...] and legal news photos for bloggers. GigaOM reports that San Francisco-based PicApp is making copyright news photos available free of charge to [...]

Yeah I’m too hyped on this either, and I have sideline sites that could use this type of content. Even as a ’small guy’, sites like Wire Image have really cheap subscription packages…$10 / month for watermark free pics.

I think there are some flaws here:

1. If you at all take your site seriously, $10/month is nothing and odds are the ad revenue pays for it anyway.

2. If you are a 17 year old girl posting celeb pictures to your MySpace page, you probably don’t know any better and will rip images from anywhere you find them.

That leaves this service in a weird limbo where they need people who know better, but can’t justify spending the cost of two beers + tip on their site :-)

[...] way of getting free press images for your blog. I prefer the image search from Jazz Biscuit. I use it [...]

[...] Reports say the site quietly launched on Friday giving online publishers legal free stock photo for their sites. The company recognizes that bloggers are the new journalists of the world and needed free legal photos for their sites. [...]

[...] אום מאליק מציג את PicApp, שירות להטמעה חוקית של צילומי עיתונות בבלוגים, שמבוסס על טכנולוגיה של PicScout הישראלית. [...]

Photos like these are great for a variety of marketing projects both live and online for creative minds, have a look at this link found through someone promoting your applications in your blog: http://youtube.com/watch?v=54CSrBi8op0