Maryrose Lyons blogging since 2003...

A Great Deal on Images – Some Good News For These Tight Times

September 4, 2008 at 10:58 pm

If you love animals and nature, you should probably turn your poor wee head away NOW!

Getty Images are targeting Ireland. Their Country Manager admits that the pricing for Ireland to date has been ‘all wrong’. [I agree].

This evening I attended a Getty evening where they got to show some of their amazing news, celeb, and global affairs images. We got to consume the message that ‘Ireland is just like Manchester’ [I think they mean in terms of market size, I certainly hope they mean in terms of style and beauty] and they [humbly = my words] acknowledge that they’ve been pricing our market all wrong.

So now they invite us – the Irish – to go online, find an image we like, and then contact them directly for an Irish specific price! A thrilling challenge indeed. And I’m not just talking about images. You can do it for sound to go along with your video, and even for video moving images. We used Pump Audio on Kanchi videos and it was really easy.

The Getty country manager is:

Marek Wystepak, his telephone is 010 246 2700 and you can contact me direct for his email or mobile if you need it. If you’re looking for contacts in relation to sound or moving image, there are direct contacts there too! [Almost sounds too good to be true eh!]

If you’ve ever been searching for amazing images for your website, found them on Getty and the cost was prohibitively expensive, well those days are gone. Now all you have to do is contact Marek and strike a deal {accordingly]. Maybe this is the good news story of the week?

I took a look around. For me, Getty Images are great. But when it comes to stock shots, good looking people in a contemporary life environment, iStock rocks. Where Getty excels however, is in news, current affairs, and key issues.

The following image is one I gleaned from the web [ie. didn't pay for] that was included in the exhibition and truly brought a tear to my eye.