The stock media library is rebranding as iStock by Getty Images, with a new logo designed by Build.
iStockphoto has rebranded itself as iStock by Getty Images. The name change is designed to reflect that iStock sells more than photos - there's video, audio and graphics too - by also attempts to make the brand more high-end by association with Getty Images.
Getty Images is iStock's parent company and sells a mixture of royalty-free and rights-managed photos, but as a brand is most associated with its very-high-quality rights-managed photography.
The push to make iStock appear to offer a more premium service is likely a reaction to the emergence over the past few years to microstock sites that offer reasonable quality stock photography for a lower price - a value proposition that iStock built its business on a decade ago, but which has been superceded in its turn by cheaper, lower-quality services such as Getty's own Thinkstock.
The new logo - as well as the look and feel of the campaign that iStock's launching to support it - was created by London-based Build, which recently rebranded Made.com. London-based Steel and Seattle-based Graphiti Associates worked on the creative for a digital campaign to announce the rebrand.
