Scooplive, THE international citizen-reporter marketplace is already one year old!
(from press release)
June 20, 2006 - June 20, 2007
One year, that's what it took to Scooplive to become the biggest amateur newsworthy photo/video agency worldwide. Thousands of members, hundreds of photos and videos received everyday, dozens of sales every month, Scooplive became one of the essential tools for editors around the world, to keep in touch with their audience.
A quick success
"For the first weeks after launching our website, we just aimed to test the website and see how things were going on. The amazing press coverage and all the documents received during the first days have attracted lots of editors. They just wanted to have a look at the kind of content we received. Our first transaction was made after three weeks only though. We sold a series of pictures to a French magazine, and started selling again and again week after week." Says Matt Stefani, co-founder of Scooplive.com.
"The video application had the same success" adds Philippe Checinski, his partner. "After 10 days online, we sold our first video to an English magazine and its website and confirmed this first transaction with sales to different Television News across the world, thanks to our members contributions".
Scooplive has received newsworthy documents such as the arrest of a suspected kamikaze in Casablanca (Morocco) video, after April Bombings, amazing series of pictures of riots in Paris "Gare du Nord" train station, published by different magazines and newspapers across the world, a boat sinking off the French coasts video, and so on. Celebrities and politicians also had a good part of the news coming in, from pictures of Bruce Willis, without security in a Rolling Stones concert in Paris, to the new French president Nicolas Sarkozy, laying down on a swimming pool while racing for the presidency as the "Workers candidate"!
New technologies for a new profession
"Scooplive amazing success compared to its few competitors throughout the world rests on its technological value" entrusts Matthieu Stefani. "We are not considered solely as a photo/video agency. We're an Internet "pure-player" and that's why we have developed the best tools to improve the relation between amateur or professional photographers and video makers, and the editors. That's where the value is, if someone has a great document, he will earn more by sending it to Scooplive than trying to sell it directly to his favorite newspaper!".
That's one of the reasons why the website became famous up to the Silicon Valley, where the most read veil websites such as TechCrunch talked about it as soon as it went out of Beta.
In addition to its in-house developed video solution, Scooplive proposes several RSS newswires, for professionals as well as for all its members (General, News, Celebrities and Sports wires are available). Scooplive also proposes a growing number of community tools such as different ways to share contents, or live images newswire to share its latest news with partners and members.
With all those tools, Scooplive aims at optimizing the time it takes to a photographer or video maker, to get in touch with the potentially interested media.
A full integration to the international media landscape
After being seen as the troublemaker of photo agencies, Scooplive has been integrated to the information sources of most of the biggest media worldwide. "We've been working in the respect of the profession" specifies Philippe Checinski, "We offer a rough content to professionals, which must be treated by editors, iconographers or journalists that work with us. That's how we grew the part of professional photographers into our members. They're our most regular contributors".
Ambitious targets
The three young entrepreneurs have been motivated by this first year, to find the assets to grow rapidly and to keep going on these tracks to confirm their position. Main targets are now to develop the website internationally and to develop the technological basis of the platform. "Even if we have acquired an interesting popularity in French and English speaking countries, we have to develop our relationships with new European and Asian markets.", explains Matthieu Stefani. For development projects, Julien Robert, the third partner adds: "Our technological advance is important and we must comfort it. That's why we're looking forward giving ourselves the assets to accelerate these developments".
The near future: 'Scooplive Media'
The first stone of this building will be posed as of this summer, with the launching of `Scooplive Media' which will make possible to the media partners of Scooplive to benefit from the technologies developed by the company. 'Scooplive Media' aims at being proposed to the media around the world to benefit from the source of information that is their audience, with advanced technologies to manage the entering flows of a UGC (User Generated Content) which will be qualified, arranged hierarchically and classified with the best existing tools.
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