The value of news images is strongly related to the quality of the content (photo or video), its “freshness”, and its context in current the newscape. An image’s value is also determined by the size of the client’s audience and their desired degree of exclusivity. So we’ve developed a sophisticated pricing matrix to ensure we find the right price for the right content for the right client.
On Citizenside Pro, we offer you breaking news, sports, and celebrity images at competitive prices thanks to multiple modes of commercialization:
1 – Free downloads with Creative Commons
We offer a free image downloads for your website, be it a personal blog or a massive info hub. We can justify this with a fair exchange: by using our images, you pay us back by driving traffic to our site and raising visibility for our contributor. For the majority of our series, one image is chosen by our editors and made available to you under this arrangement.
In exchange we ask you to respect the following conditions:
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| Maximum size |
600*600px, 72dpi |
Original |
| You can: |
| • Re-size the image |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Crop the image for the homepage |
Yes |
Yes |
| • Crop the image for an article page |
No |
Yes |
| • Retouch the image |
No |
Yes |
| • Download the full size image |
No |
Yes |
| Requirements: |
| • Display the copyright links |
Yes |
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| • Display the link “download this image” |
Yes |
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| • Display the links near the image |
Yes |
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| • Conserve the mini Citizenside Pro logo on the image |
Yes |
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2 – Purchase via Download
Subscriptions
This is obviously the solution that we prefer at Citizenside Pro, so we made it the most interesting for our clients.
There are many types of subscriptions ranging from 10 to 100 downloads per month, and for the really massive consumers, unlimited downloads can be arranged.
Credit bundles
Credits can also be used to purchase and download Citizenside Pro content and are good for one year periods. We’ve worked it so the more credit you buy, the less each individual image costs.
3 – One-shot purchases for magazines and other traditional media
Traditionally, the actors in the image market (magazines, newspapers, and TV stations) download the content first and decide later if they’ll end up using it. We basically become freelancers for them in this sense, and it’s the time and resources that costs us most in these situations.
So, for traditional purhcases, we propose tranditional rates! (If you’d prefer invoicing according to downloads, it’s much easier and less costly!).
4 – Scoops
As for our scoops, negotiations occur on a case-by-case basis. We use special treatment for really hot scoops and give our clients an audequat chance to grab the exclusive. Generally the rights agreed upon are exclusivity for a limited period of time in a specific territory, but as we said, it’s really on a case-by-case basis. Sign up here to get on our scoop mailing list and don’t miss your chance to stay on top of what’s hot.
To see our photo and video prices, sign-up now on Citizenside Pro by clicking here.