Beamups Blog

Another great company is joining Beamups. We are pleased to announce that all buyers can now get excellent daily  content from Poland.

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We are so stuffed with bringing new partners to our platform, that we missed our one year anniversay of our UK launch!  Click to see pictures from our great opening event at London based Frontline Club!

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Beamups CEO recently travelled to Poland – not only to bring new content providers to our platform but also to give a keynote about Beamups and it’s revolutionary model on annual Aula Polska. An event which brings together web entrepreneurs from all over Poland once a year as they award the best initatives in previos year.

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We are more than happy to welcome new provider at Beamups. Last week, a great photo agency from Armenia has joined Beamups – global news marketplace and we hope that our cooperation will bring many good stories from the Caucasus region.
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All of us at Beamups are delighted to have been shortlisted for the 2010 Media Guardian Awards.

We have been nominated in the Business Model and Start Up category, recognising our unique marketplace for the buying and selling of news online. Beamups is already generating revenues for news journalists while cutting costs for news rooms.

The Media Guardian is an industry standard on the reporting of traditional and digital media and we are thrilled to be part of these awards.

This is the second time Beamups has been nominated since our launch. We were also in the running for the Royal Television Society’s Innovation Awards.

As we enter a new year, I can reflect with great pride at what the Beamups team and Beamups users have achieved together.

Beamups launched in the Spring of 2009 with a specific target – to establish a real-time marketplace for buying and selling professional news video and stills. Within a few months we achieved that goal. Today Beamups has a strong professional community from over 60 countries uploading footage on a daily basis.

Our rich and varied content is increasingly attracting buyers, ranging from international broadcasters to production companies and websites. We have seen sales in China, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America.

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With Christmas around the corner, I must admit to mixed feelings at this time of year.

As a freelance cameraman I always had a lot of work around this time and covered Christmas from Santa’s grotto in Lapland to Jericho. In the Middle East there were wonderful images of a traditional Christmas alongside the equally familiar images of stones being thrown in a domestic battleground.

It strikes me that Christmas is the most local and the most global of holidays. Few of us are immune to the Hollywood version of Christmas, but my memories blend the charming with the rough edges of hard news.

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In the early years of my career as a News/Documentary cameraman I took about a dozen different technical and creative workshops – they were immensely helpful to my progress in this tough industry.

I’d learn new skills in one week and then leap back to my freelance jobs equipped with new techniques and ways of approaching locations with the different ‘look and feel’ that I had to provide day-to-day.

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