Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing
“Remember outsourcing? Sending jobs to India and China is so 2003. The new pool of cheap labor: everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R and D.”
Technology and business models are changing daily… one has to play their best game and make wise, sometimes complicated choices to be successful in the world of commercial photography. Ability to adapt, change be flexible and think on one’s feet is a prerequisite in the world of selling imagery for profit… not that that is anything new.
Changes in commercial photography (as well as film, tv and video ) markets directly affect the production (including location services) industries. Articles such as this help provide insight as to marketing and planning for location scouts / location managers as well.
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