Petition to stop the use of cheesy stock images on blogs
Don’t get me wrong, a picture paints a thousand words and I love them. If you are blogging about a company/person/place/product whatever then Iwould encourage you to post a relevant picture of that company/person/place/product.
But….don’t use cheesy stock photos just because you think they brighten up your blog. They don’t. Examples below:
And my personal favourite…the classic…..2 men shaking hands!!!
What I’m listening to right now: Kanye West - “Drunk & Hot Girls” & “Flashing Lights” from the “Graduation” album. Wicked.
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at 12:13 am and is filed under Fun. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Welcome to my blog. My name is Kieron Donoghue and I run UK Offer Media Ltd. I thought it would be fun to post a daily (well hopefully daily) blog, writing about my experiences in Internet Marketing and more specifically Affiliate Marketing. I'll include some personal stuff too, probably about my other passions, music and cars. Please feel free to post your comments and thoughts too.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:21 am
You missed one! How could you possibly forget the WORLD with some sort of zipping light speeding round meant to resemble some sort of Network!
September 19th, 2007 at 1:50 am
But I always fall for them
They’re so “call to action”!
September 19th, 2007 at 2:49 am
2 men shaking hands!!! - I don’t know how many times I’ve been designing a brochure or website with a client sat with me who wants to remove all the good pics - but doesn’t know what to replace them with only to decide at the last minute on “2 men shaking hands!!!” Agreed - it has to go
September 19th, 2007 at 5:58 am
I’ve always wondered about this as well! But they probably work - just look at all the cheesy pictures on the marketers’ sites and salespages!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:07 am
LOLOLOL - the classic two men shaking hands. So true.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Cheese is good! Is there any particular site that got your goat so much that it promoted you to post? We’d all love to see it!
September 19th, 2007 at 11:13 am
I know a corporate website where the pictures of people working turned up a week later in a Kenco coffee advert. A website in our industry, nontheless.
There’s also a woman that’s always used in photos to advertise bingo and the suchlike - in one of the missus’s trashy magazines, she was on one page as a “competition winner” and a couple of pages later advertising something completely different.
I’ve found her! http://www.istockphoto.com/file_search.php?action=file&lightboxID=325112
She gets everywhere. I look like a stalker now, don’t I?
September 19th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Nothing worse if you are on a slow connection waiting for the meaningless picture to download. Unless they add value to a post, I wish people would stop using them in their blogs.
September 19th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
No discussion of stock photography is complete without mention of Everywhere Girl. Immortalised by The Inquirer website this girl’s sole photoshoot has been used by so many companies on so many websites it stopped being funny a long, long time ago.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=24735