Press Gazette Tuesday March 3, 2026
The $3.7 billion merger of rival image providers Getty and Shutterstock could lead to a “substantial lessening of competition” in the editorial market in the UK, a watchdog has warned. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said, however, it had no concerns on the impact of the deal on the global supply of stock images licensed for commercial purposes—in part because of the growth of generative AI to produce stock imagery as well as the presence of major competitors such as Adobe and Canva in the market. The CMA released an interim report last week, notes Press Gazette. Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Tuesday March 3, 2026
A messy court battle between a rock band and a photographer has gotten messier. In December, Amy Taylor, frontwoman of the band Amyl and the Sniffers, took photographer Jamie Nelson to court after
Nelson shot pictures of her for a Vogue Portugal story titled "Champagne Problems." In her suit, Taylor claimed Nelson later sold fine-art prints of the photos without her permission. Nelson then … Read the full Story >>
Bloomberg Monday March 2, 2026
Some 20 years after first popularizing the very concept of a podcast, Apple has accelerated the industry’s evolutionary shift from an audio-centric medium to one decidedly focused on video, notes Bloomberg. First, Apple is rejiggering how video works on its service. Secondly, podcasters will now be able to manage their video and audio operation on Apple from their usual hosting provider with control over their ads. With its new focus on video, Apple is to some extent playing catch up: As YouTube and Spotify have become people's most-used podcast platform, the percentage of people saying Apple Podcasts is their go-to has dropped. Read the full Story >>
GOST Monday March 2, 2026
Berlin, Germany-based photographer Robin Hirsch says his book Lonely Are the Bridges is not about war but “a portrait of a place and its people where systems have collapsed, where borders have been redrawn again and again,” he notes. Hinsch made his first trip to Ukraine in 2010 and kept coming back to photograph both the landscape and the people he encountered. His images present "a melancholic vision of country caught between a contested pas and a brutal present,” notes publisher GOST. See also: The Guardian. Read the full Story >>
