Free Photos For Ads From Corbis

It is not free like in 'free beer' but it looks like a nice deal.
Look at the details below!

Stock photo agency Corbis offers photos for no costs to bloggers on a special webite.

First the other perspective :-)

Copyright infringement

"Our legal department is a revenue generator for Corbis." Chief Executive Gary Shenk told the Reuters Media Summit.

"We don’t have a lot of lawsuits. We just find infringement and then we turn them into customers."

Source: Corbis makes an offer you can’t refuse - Btw: Nice blog from Reuters: mediafile

Click here to get more details about the 'free photos from Corbis' deal.

Corbis

Wikipedia about Corbis:

Corbis is privately owned by Bill Gates, who founded the company in 1989 under the name Interactive Home Systems (...)

Corbis sells to customers in more than 50 countries. As of 2007, the company had 1,100 employees in 24 offices in 16 countries. Its revenue increased 11 percent to $251 million in 2006, compared to 2005. Since its founding in 1989, the company has never had a profitable year.

Yep, Corbis seems to be a 'burning money' company and some of the small and medium sized stock photo agencies are not too amused about how Corbis is pushing its way into the stock photography market.

As a photographer seeing fees dropping to the ground I am not too happy about the 'Free photos for ads from Corbis' system. Think about it before you deliver free ads for them to your readers!

Picapp.com

Of course still beta but you can already become a beta member. They call it 'a test phase' - How web 1.0 is this :-)

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock photography company Corbis is offering Internet bloggers access to some of its images for their posts for free in exchange for showcasing advertising embedded into the photos.

Corbis and its digital rights partner, PicScout, will allow bloggers to access photos via a Web link from the site PicApp.com, now in a test phase, Corbis Chief Executive Gary Shenk told the Reuters Media Summit in New York on Tuesday.

The photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up when a Web user runs a cursor over the picture. (...)

Oh, and they also offer a Pay Per Click (PPC) revenue model:

PicApp also offers bloggers the opportunity to earn ad revenue based on how many times Web users click on the images posted to their blogs, according to the Web site.

Read the full article here: Corbis offers bloggers free photos, with ads

I am not a beta member yet and I am not sure if I will because of the reasons I mentioned above.

How-To become a beta member on picapp.com

Go to the beta member application form and submit your data. here is what they tell about your advantages:

Picapp.com is looking for passionate bloggers to beta test our unique stock photo publishing service.

As a picapp.com beta member, you can:

• Use the best stock photos for your site that the web has to offer – for free!
• Find and publish the perfect image easily and professionally with advanced search and lightboxmanagement.
• Earn ad revenue from click-through on the images on your site.

They call blogs 'social media'. How kind.