- Insights
The Death of Stock Photography: 18 Months In
Stock photography as a category has been in the slow part of a fast collapse since mid-2023. A look back at where the major libraries stood at the midpoint of 2025 — an assessment that has largely held since.
- Industry
Adobe Firefly v3 and the Quality-Bar Inflection
Adobe's April 2024 Firefly Image 3 release moved the quality bar for ethically-sourced AI imagery into competitive parity with the open-corpus alternatives. What the inflection meant for brand teams choosing tools.