YouTube and Flickr’s organization of videos and images is nearly identical to the way stock photography has been tagged and categorized since the beginning of the 20th century. Try searching for a keyword on YouTube or Flickr, and then try it in GettyImages — the only difference is that GettyImages is far more neat and organized because it is edited by paid workers, and generally speaking there is money involved. But while YouTube and Flickr users are a sloppy bunch of amateurs in comparison to it, stock photography’s level of meticulous organization, its specific tags, titles and descriptions, are certainly the ideal of the new “Web 2.0″ system (meaning the creators’ technical ideals.) This is simply how you must manage an infinite amount of images and clips.

Stock footage, stock photography, and clip art succeed only when there is such a vast amount of varying material available to choose from that there will surely be something ideal for your purpose — be it footage of a woman with a headache for a television commercial about pain medication, or a cartoon of a purple cake for a birthday party invitation. This is one area where amateur images exceed professional stock — abundance.

If GettyImages is a database of fictional reproductions of the most basic elements of everything ever, YouTube and Flickr are databases of the actual elements. But amateur images presented in such abundance begin to resemble stock imagery.

Low budget of stock footage, etc

wait there was something else im forgetting.. . .. ….

just trying to organize thoughts, theres more + need to put it all into one big essay….?