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Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

Morgan Webb — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:15:41 -0000

Hi...Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts about free web layouts..what a nice Saturday .

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

Paul — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:17:25 -0000

Disagree; I think this is a pretty great idea, and it is surprising nobody came up with it sooner.

When you're a content creator, what you need is good distribution. If you're doing it for fun, Flickr, Shutterfly, &c fill your need just fine.

But if you want to do it for profit, you need three other ingredients:
1. High quality -- technically (so people get a picture usable in their medium)
2. Reliable selection mechanism (so people find your work)
3. A way to monetize the transaction if someone uses your high quality, easily discovered image.

Now, if I'm a great photographer and I make money on my work when people use it in their ad campaign, I suppose I choose not to include a logo - but I probably do include a watermark or some other identifying digital characteristic so that people can be held to account for the usage.

And how much better is it if someone else (BritePic) is doing all the accounting, collection, and fighting for my money? 30% seems like a small price to pay for all that additional market and basically no additional work.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

ferodynamics — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:58:52 -0000

It will work. Any time you introduce a new ad format you make money. Why do you think AdSense has so many different layouts? The problem with AdBrite, for me anyway, is the brand itself, less-than-sparkling if you know what I mean.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

Marcus — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:41:58 -0000

Lets not forget here... the people using these images obviously understand a little bit about HTML as they're apparently copying code and pasting it into their 'site'. It wouldn't be much more difficult to print screen it.

If the average 13 year old girl on myspace can figure out ways to steal images and put them on her myspace... so can people using this service.

Besides.. who in the hell would use an image with all that clutter and ad's built into it in any sort of respectable marketing campaign..

I just don't see why anyone would want to have an image with ad's built into it anywhere within their marketing materials or site.

I can't wait to see PUD put his own company in the F'd Hall of Fame.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

Sundar Krishnamurthy — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:40:03 -0000

This is quite interesting but not new. VideoEgg pioneered this and have overlay ads running on their videos for sometime now.

The technology is similar to what Slide does with images with the difference being the overlay content is ads instead of your own descriptions.

Of course, all three use Flash to do the job.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

Origin — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 02:54:18 -0000

If you ask me any photographer that would peddle their images to adbrite for CPM ads needs a new profession.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

raj — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:27:05 -0000

i do not understand what is the big deal here...it is just javascript like adsense code, where you are also providing your image url to overly ads on the pic...

i do not see any innovation than just hype here!!!

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

surya — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:24:33 -0000

Marcus-- no way. That's too much work for the average browser. Way too much work for me. Only coders and dorks will do what you just said. And coders won't because they generally have respect for other people's work. Leaving dorks.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

Marcus — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:57:23 -0000

Print Screen... Start->Run->MSPAINT...

Ctrl+V...

Crop..

File->Save As ... Stolen.jpg

Adios adbrite.

Re: BritePic — photography may never be the same

mathew — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:48:36 -0000

so 'right-click, copy image location' won't just give me the image location with britepic? how about a ff extension that 'reverts' that functionality? doesn't sound too hard.