Who Owns Who

Now that the big businesses of the stock photography industry are taking an interest in the microstock revolution, there are quite a few big names behind the current microstock faces. Let’s take a look.

Owned by the Big Boys

The following microstock agencies are owned by large companies established in the stock photography industry.

Agency	Owner	Details
iStockphoto	Getty Images	Getty purchased iStockphoto for $50million in 2006
StockXpert	Jupiter Images	Jupiter purchased 90% of HAAP Media Ltd, the hungarian operator of StockXpert, in January 2006
SnapVillage*	Corbis	Corbis launched SnapVillage as a completely new agency in June 2007
123rf	InMagine	123rf is a wholly owned subsidiary of InMagine

Owned by original Entrepreneurs

The following microstock agencies are still owned by the entreprenuers who built them.

Agency	Owners	Details
ShutterStock	Jon Oringer	Oringer founded ShutterStock and is CEO
Dreamstime	Serban Enache	Enache co-founded Dreamstime and is CEO
Fotolia	Oleg Tscheltzoff	Tscheltzoff is the co-founder and president of Fotolia
CanStockPhoto	Duncan Enman	Business student Enman created and owns CanStockPhoto
BigStockPhoto	Dawn & Tim Donahue	The Donahues founded and own BigStockPhoto
LuckyOliver	Bryan Zmijewski	Zmijewski founded LuckyOliver and is Chief Instigator
Crestock	Geir Are Jensen	Jensen founded Crestock and is Chairman

*Update 2007-06-25: Corbis today launched their microstock offering, SnapVillage.

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