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  • Andy Carolanandycarolan@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:10 AM

    @maique Yup, if they are that badly affected, I can only imagine how smaller entities are doing RN

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  • Andy Carolanandycarolan@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 5:27 PM

    @ctt Agreed. Stock sites always appear to rely on a high volume of sales as the returns per image appear to be quite low. I've only ever done it for illustration assets, never photography, but I imagine it's a similar story. @maique would likely know far more than I do about such things.

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  • maique :prami_pride:maique@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 5:54 PM

    @andycarolan @ctt I don’t really know that much, no. I don’t use Getty, and never needed to purchase stock from them, back in the paper days. I did buy news photos, but very little. We had contracts with news agencies (Reuters, AP, AFP), and they provided all the photos we needed. Never stock.

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  • Andy Carolanandycarolan@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 6:26 PM

    @maique Makes sense... I thought you might have put your own photos on stock sites or something though. @ctt

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  • maique :prami_pride:maique@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 6:31 PM

    @andycarolan There was a time 500px had a deal with Getty, and photos could be added to their portfolio, if we wanted, and they liked them. I had a few over there, and they sold a bit. Always for ridiculously low values.

    Some people have great success with stock photo, but it’s a specialty I never got into.

    @ctt

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  • Andy Carolanandycarolan@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 6:33 PM

    @maique That's interesting. I remember selling some stock on Shutterstock some years ago and it was pennies... in the end it took me years to get the money as it was always under their minimum payout value lol @ctt

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  • maique :prami_pride:maique@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 6:08 PM

    @ctt This mostly does not affect us. As Andy says, it’s about scale. They cater to lots of clients, who don’t mind using the same image. We’re in the one-of-a-kind business. The things we do aren’t useful to anyone else, so Getty has no interest in covering those. And only our clients are interested in those specific photos. They still have to hire someone.

    @andycarolan

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  • Andy Carolanandycarolan@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 6:28 PM

    @maique Agreed! 99% of what I get commissioned for couldn't be used for anyone else as it's so specific. @ctt

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  • Henryhl@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 9:05 PM

    @maique @ctt @andycarolan one minor detail I'd add is this is US chapter 11 bankruptcy. That's nowhere near the same as most of us think of bankruptcy - it allows the business to continue as-is, but renegotiate all its debt and contracts. Much to the annoyance of competing European airlines, many US airlines have done this to renegotiate their labour contracts in a way which EU airlines can't.

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  • maique :prami_pride:maique@social.lol
    Oct 23, 2026, 10:31 PM

    @hl Thank you, had no idea. Still, for a huge part of their offerings, I really have no idea what their business will look like. Generic photos, millions of them, probably the ones that were fed to the AI guzzlers, are easily reproducible. Is it cheaper to pay cents for them, or just get your AI bot of choice to spit one out?

    @ctt @andycarolan

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  • Andy Carolanandycarolan@social.lol
    Oct 24, 2026, 3:15 PM

    @maique Gen AI token prices will probably increase exponentially when there are no other options left. I’m the meantime, creatives can charge more because we are corn fed and natural 😅 @hl @ctt

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