Photographers can now shoot for Google with Snapwire's latest expansion

By Hillary K. Grigonis January 26, 2017

Photographers can now get paid to fill in Google’s gaps — Snapwire today announced a partnership with the search engine that puts thousands of new photo requests on the Snapwire app and website, along with adding bulk photo uploads to accommodate the jump in potential gigs.

To fill in gaps or outdated images of popular locations in the search results, Google now lists the locations that need an update on Snapwire. Photographers can submit images of the location, and could get paid if Google picks their shots. The new potential gigs number in the thousands, Snapwire says.

The latest addition pays only the photographer behind the selected images, even though multiple photographers may submit work. Like the platforms current database of clients ranging from Hertz to Hootsuite, the Snapwire platform connects businesses and photographers, giving photographers between a 50 and 70 percent cut of the payout.

The price of the Google gigs range, with several $25 shoots as well as $175 shoots. According to the style guide, most $175 Google shoots request a panorama, which could be shot with a smartphone, as well as images of the exterior and interior. The $25 projects, on the other hand, ask only for an image of the exterior, though the exact requests vary.

Snapwire’s map tool helps sort those potential gigs by location, while a newly added batch upload will allow photographers to submit more than one image at a time.

Along with the new Google gigs with potential pay, Snapwire also announced a new Pay Per Shoot option. Instead of paying photographers for selected images, the Pay Per Shoot option allows clients to pay for an entire shoot, instead of a single image or set of images. That allows photographers to be paid at a rate closer to their day rate for weddings or events, Snapwire says.

Snapwire recently completed a round of crowdfunding that made the latest additions possible, while a new campaign is continuing to finance the startup’s expansion.

Editors' Recommendations

Topics

Hillary K. Grigonis

Former Digital Trends Contributor

Hillary never planned on becoming a photographer—and then she was handed a camera at her first writing job and she's been…

News

WhatsApp backups may soon count against Google Drive storage

Person texting on a smartphone using WhatsApp.

New evidence found in a beta build of WhatsApp for Android suggests that Google may no longer be offering unlimited storage for WhatsApp backups.

This probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise, as Google has gradually been clamping down on its unlimited storage offerings. For years, Google offered storage allotments for Google Drive customers that ranged from generous to downright unlimited, but the search giant has slowly been walking that back lately.

Computing

Google Chrome now tracks prices, remembers abandoned shopping carts

google chrome update shopping inline no shell v2

Google is looking to make your online shopping easier, by saving you time and money. The Internet search giant has rolled out a few new features, which when combined with Chrome's autofill and automatic password generator to create safe logins for new websites, will reduce the friction and headache from finding the right prices online.
The first feature is the ability to quickly track price history on mobile. The feature will arrive first on Chrome for Android and follow in the coming weeks to Chrome for iOS. Essentially, mobile users will be able to open up the browser's tab grids, Google said of the feature. Along with tabs of recently opened web pages, you'll see the latest price drops highlighted at the top of each tabbed page, making it easy to identify which items are currently on sale.

Google's latest online shopping efforts follow that of rival Microsoft, which had recently launched a shopping extension for its own Microsoft Edge browser with similar price tracking features designed to save you money.

Mobile

You can now download the first Android 12L Beta on your Google Pixel

Android 12L shown for a larger display.

Google announced on Wednesday the first beta release of Android 12L, the next feature drop for the recently released Android 12 operating system. Aimed primarily at tablets and larger-screened devices, Android 12L will focus on changing the Android experience from the much-critiqued blown-up-phone look to a discrete experience that takes the larger canvas of tablets into account.
What's new?
Today's beta release includes the refreshed interface for larger screens, including a column view for the notification shade and lock screen. A new multitasking dock is being introduced to allow faster access to split-screen and drag-and-drop, and Google's now done work to allow every Android 12 app to work with split-screen mode regardless of whether developers have built for it.

The big problem with big-screen Android
Unlike iOS, the Android experience on tablets and larger-screened devices has been abysmal. It's a little understandable when one considers that Google shifted its tablet focus from Android to Chrome OS a few years ago. While Chrome OS currently has a decent tablet experience, one that the current Android 12L seems to want to replicate when looking at the dock and split-screen multitasking, the app experience for both has remained lacking.