Bruce Livingstone is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded
Calgary
Calgary () is a major city in the Canadian province of Alberta. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806 making it the third-largest city and fifth-largest metropolitan area in C ...
-based
iStockphoto, an online distributor of
stock photography
Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, has established models including traditional macrostock photography, midstock photography, ...
.
Livingstone started iStockphoto in 2000 as a project offering stock photos for free over the internet. In 2002, high monthly bandwidth bills prodded him to implement a payment/credit system. In 2006, Livingstone sold iStockphoto to
Getty Images
Getty Images Holdings, Inc. (stylized as gettyimages) is a visual media company and supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video, and music for business and consumers, with a library of over 477 million assets. It targets three mark ...
for $50 million, where he continued on as iStockphoto's CEO.
Livingstone picked up additional roles at Getty (including SVP Consumer
) but left Getty and iStockphoto in 2009.
In 2010, he became CEO of
Saatchi Online, an internet-based art community, and later resigned his position in 2012.
In 2013, unhappy with the direction of iStock under Getty (and following the expiration of his
non-compete agreement
In contract law, a non-compete clause (often NCC), restrictive covenant, or covenant not to compete (CNC), is a clause under which one party (usually an employee) agrees not to enter into or start a similar profession or trade in competition again ...
) Livingston founded
Stocksy United, a royalty-free stock photo and video agency based in Victoria, BC.
References
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External links
About Stocksy United
Living people
Canadian businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
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