A very good idea!!!
Reference: www.springwise.com
Spy Media, a Silicon Valley-based news photo marketplace, lets both amateur and professional photographers sell
their photos at a price they set.
They've just added a new twist: buyers can request a photo of an event, place, person, product or whatever, and
place a bounty on the image. Buyer sets the price, and the first photographer with the right image gets paid.
Current bounties include "Would like a picture of my first home once owned in SJ, CA" (USD 20), and "Red Bull
Contest - The Photo with the Prettiest Girl and a Red Bull" (USD 100).
This takes the citizen journalism model (which we've written about before: ScooptWords, Reporter.co.za, and OhmyNews
) and turns it into an online photo classified system. Anyone, anywhere can tap into the global brain, and can send
photographers on 'image errands'. Besides news-related bounties, one can imagine FMCG companies requesting
real-world shots of in-store marketing efforts, or potential homebuyers looking for realistic photos of a property's
surroundings.
Not to mention all the other errands you can get minipreneurs to do... Time to start up a global errands
intermediary, with easy access to members from Bangkok to Boston?
Website: http://www.spymedia.com
Labels: Business, Business Ideas
posted by Silent Saint @ 11:42 PM
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