Comments on: A Couple Things Today

By: M. Scott Brauer and Matt Lutton - dvafoto › All of Life soon to be online

M. Scott Brauer and Matt Lutton - dvafoto › All of Life soon to be online — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:48:56 +0000

[...] be able to find it here quickly, easily, and for free.” Sounds great to me. (via APhotoEditor.com)Bonus fact: the first cover of Life (below) was shot in Montana by a female photographer, Margaret [...]

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:11:47 +0000

Just got a press release from the guy who created it. He doesn’t even work at Corbis just wants their business. Lying about who you are and what you do is a pretty slimy marketing trick.

By: Dalton

Dalton — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:07:51 +0000

Regarding Schtock: I am so sick of “viral marketing” campaigns, but doubly so of duplicitous marketing tricks. I followed the site for a few days and thought the material was great, but now that I know that it was a lie, not only have I unsubscribed, but the parent agency has lost credibility in my eyes.

I don’t see why they couldn’t have just been honest and up front all along?Why not hire this blogger and start their own blog? Photosheter did a great job of this with Shoot The Blog; they would have generated plenty of attention and people would have followed it. Instead thesy employ dirty marketing tricks and leave me feeling like a used rag.

By: photogirllondon

photogirllondon — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:31:05 +0000

PDN has named the agency… and there is some indication that it is actually a pretty good viral marketing campaign…

By: Brooks Ayola

Brooks Ayola — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:21:02 +0000

Yep… Seems a little transparent to me too. How will this work best for the stock agency in question?

By: Craig Brewer

Craig Brewer — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:42:52 +0000

If he doesn’t want to lose his job then why does he have his email address and telephone number listed?

By: christian

christian — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:39:36 +0000

Ok – it’s interesting but what about this statement on the blog:

“For legal reasons (using the images is already illegal, but I don’t want to really screw myself by using hi-res images from the database), all the images you see on the site were created with the preview thumbnails that anyone can access. I’m also refraining from stating specifically what stock company I work for for the simple reason that I don’t want to potentially lose my job over this.”

By: photogirllondon

photogirllondon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:29:26 +0000

How many photo editors can guess from the site which agency it is from… took me 6 pictures…