All CEPIC Congress photos: Peter Mlch and Rene Fluger from CTK Photobank

CEPIC photographers from Czech News Agency – CTK Photobank have uploaded the first two days of the CEPIC London Congress online to view

PhotoShelter have a sell-out first UK event this evening at which Allen Murabayashi and a panel of photo editors meet photographers in What Photo Buyers Want From Photographers at Ideas Tap with Blurb
The photo editor panel, put together by PhotoArchiveNews.com will be: Dagmar Seeland, UK Picture Editor for STERN Magazine | Russ O’Connell, Picture Director Q Magazine | James Mullinger Photographic Director GQ Magazine.

Looks like the Alamy team are eating again, this time are making the most of the good weather in London today with a BBQ on the roof terrace at the Venue!

Twitpic – Content creators and distributors partnering for mutual benefit moderated by Judy Herrman (ASMP) at #CEPIC Congress Photocentric Day at CEPIC London

The Alamy marketing team were up early on the first full day at The truman Building with this photo shot just after a hearty breakfast in a cafe nearby and posted on their twitter feed with the caption “Coffee down, 101 meetings to go (between us). How many have you got?”

Twitpic – #CEPIC attendees having fun at the Photo booth last night @ImageSource creative team!

PhotoArchiveNews.com is Partner to the CEPIC Congress and will be reporting daily from the event.
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ZOO Magazine is looking for a part time Picture Desk Intern to work 2-3 days a week for 6 months.

Applicants should be hard working, organised, enthusiastic, proactive and have a passion for the industry. Applicants need to be proficient in Excel, this is a necessity.

Duties will include:
* Completing the weekly mark up.
* Dealing with admin duties on the desk.
* Aiding Picture team with picture research.
* Sourcing props for shoots.
* Helping with various tasks on the fast paced picture desk.

This is a paid position and would be a great opportunity for someone looking to get into the industry. The ideal candidate will be passionate about working on a Picture Desk, willing to learn and have a great eye for images. Previous experience on a picture desk is desirable but not a necessity.

To apply, please send your CV and a covering letter to Gemma Parker gemma.parker@zootoday.com
Please mark your subject ‘picture desk intern’, you must be available to start immediately.

UK based art, culture and historical image resource The Bridgeman Art Library are celebrating their 40th year in the stock photo business this week.
Harriet Bridgeman founded the company in 1972 and has watched her idea grow into a global enterprise. ‘We started with £500 and five hundred transparencies in Kodak boxes,’ explains Harriet. ‘We now have five international offices and can claim to be the world’s largest image library for fine art, cultural and historical imagery. Our Los Angeles office opened recently and this month sees us launch our latest project, footage licensing.’

They say: ‘This year’s annual image licensing event, CEPIC, coincides with Bridgeman’s birthday week and delegates attending the congress will leave with a memorable present from Bridgeman: a practical and eye-catching tote bag’ – below

Christina Vaughan, President of CEPIC, said, ‘We are delighted that Bridgeman are sponsoring CEPIC in their birthday year and wish them another forty years of success.’

Our client is a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, providing a comprehensive selection of photography, illustration, footage, typefaces and rights clearance services. Through its branded web sites, the company helps the creative community make distinctive advertising and publishing for the Internet, magazines, newspapers, books, television and films. The company has offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia that serve more than 50 countries.

Reporting to the Marketing Manager – CRM, the Email Marketing Associate Producer will be responsible for coding and producing email marketing communications leveraging advance skills in HTML, EML, Javascript, XML, and CSS. Working closely with the marketing and creative design teams you will also be responsible for loading the coded content into the email service provider’s engine (Silverpop) and deploying the emails based on the determined segmentation rules following QA.
In addition you will also be required to work out schedules and report on email performance. This includes ideas and recommendations on how to increase our overall email performance against our key metrics.
The ideal candidate will need to be detail-oriented with a great sense of current trends in the market. They will need to exhibit the ability to multi-task and manage time effectively to meet multiple email campaign deadlines. The candidate should also have experience working with web designers and developers and understand general design and development processes.

Responsibilities:
• Produce coded email communications using HTML, EML, CSS, and Familiarity with DOCTYPE differences.
• Partner with design team to develop compelling brand and product-focused emails promoting marketing messages
• Ability to trouble-shoot and correct any coding errors to assure the team meets email deployment deadlines
• Build templates and execute email sends according to schedule.
• Monitor ongoing (“triggered”) campaigns to ensure proper execution of all scheduled events.
• Monitor and report on key metrics including open, click, unsubscribe, and bounce rates.
• Make recommendations for changes that will increase email effectiveness based on findings.
• Conduct rigorous quality assurance testing on emails prior to deployment
• Make recommendations for changes that will increase email effectiveness based on findings.
• Validate customer segmentation logic and audience counts.
• Ensure appropriate creative and offers are extended to each audience.
• Test for consistency of appearance across all major browsers and platforms.
• Confirm all email links, dynamic content and personalized fields function properly.
• Work with technology partners to setup and test marketing promotions (e.g., free delivery offers, department/category discounts) prior to campaign deployment.
• Work with business and technology partners to identify and gather business requirements for marketing campaigns, potential marketing database enhancements, and campaign management process improvements.

Qualifications:
• Candidates must be able to provide samples of their work and demonstrate discipline expertise
• Expertise in hand-coding HTML, specifically for email marketing (EML)
• 2+ years in-depth CSS experience including pure-CSS page layouts
• Proficiency in identifying and solving coding, image-rendering and HTML content compatibility issues relating to HTML and CSS
• Experience with and an understanding of differences in HTML DOCTYPE
• Experience with design, marketing strategies and segmentation
• Experience with Responsys ESP an advantage
• Background in email marketing reporting and analytics
• Experience with managing and delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns through email vendors
• Experience with multi-language campaigns
• SEM and SEO skills are an advantage
• Experience with Omniture Web Analytics platform an advantage

Please contact james@createselect.com for further details.

www.createselect.com