TrendWatch GA has been tracking planned purchases of stock images in the printing, creative, publishing, and Internet design and development markets since the inception of our surveys, and over time, the purchasing habits of these key market segments have undergone significant change.

We’ve reported those changes in our Special Reports every year, but recently, we’ve been getting requests to provide even more detail—to develop an actual market sizing. So we obliged.

Internet design and development firms have a seemingly never-ending appetite for new images. This makes sense in light of the need to keep Web site content fresh and new.