Global stock market worth $282 million

In New York, the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (acsil) has pegged the value of the international stock footage industry at us$282 million. Beyond estimating the size of the market, the 'ACSIL Global Survey of Stock Footage Companies 2007' report also examined factors such as the state of digitization; the nature of current license agreements and rights packages; the emergence of new markets and customer types; changes in order volume; and current approaches to marketing and new business development.