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How to Search an Editorial Content Archive (And Actually Find the Shot)
A practical search methodology for editorial and archive photography: reading captions, searching by event or phrase, and checking credit and rights before download.
Editorial, creative or archive: which to use when
At Fast Media, wire, creative, specialist and archive collections, the free libraries and your own media sit in one search, each clearly labelled, each licensed under stated terms with a certificate o
Editorial vs commercial use: the distinction every buyer needs
Commercial use means using an image to sell, promote or endorse: advertising, marketing, packaging, branded social, anything whose purpose is persuasion rather than information. The standard is strict
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Stop re-buying images you already own
The economics are blunt. Every reused image is a purchase that didn't happen, and for a team buying steadily, the library pays for itself out of the first images it stops you re-buying.
Your images live in twelve different places
pick three images you published last year and try to establish, within five minutes each, where the original file is and what licence covers it. If you pass, your system works. If you don't, the fix i