Business
Contracts, margins, client behavior, and the economics of the deliverable.
- Business
Couples Increasingly Request Raw Files. This Publication Requests They Stop.
Requests for unprocessed files rose 22.7 percent year over year. Studios report the requests are rarely followed by questions about what a raw file is.
- Q2 Report
Inquiry Ghosting Reaches Seasonal High; Researchers Note It Is Now Mutual, and in Some Cases Loving
Second-quarter figures show non-response rates climbing on both sides of the transaction for the first time on record.
- Markets
Emerging Markets Report: Elopements Now Require Crews of Six
Median crew size rose to 5.8 from 1.2 in five years. Median guest count fell to four. The Bureau has placed its own definition under review.
- Market Structure
First Look Adoption Plateaus in Midwest Markets as Traditionalist Bloc Holds
Adoption stalled at 51.3% for a third consecutive booking cycle, roughly twenty points behind coastal markets, with downstream effects on timeline structure and crew hours.
- Standards
Standards Body Reaffirms That the Reception Timeline Is a Living Document
A petition from 84 firms sought binding variance bands. The committee found the same slippage data supports the opposite conclusion.
- Sector Economics
Average Wedding Deliverable Exceeds 4,000 Frames for First Time; Storage Sector Quietly Pleased
Delivered image counts reached 4,118 per event in the second quarter. Archival vendors report attach-rate gains they have declined to characterize publicly.