Bruce Livingstone

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Bruce Livingstone is a Canadian entrepreneur who founded Calgary-based iStockphoto, an online distributor of stock photography.

Livingstone started iStockphoto in 2000 as a project offering stock photos for free over the internet. In 2002, high monthly bandwidth bills prodded him to implement a payment/credit system. In 2006, Livingstone sold iStockphoto to Getty Images for $50 million, where he continued on as iStockphoto's CEO.{{Cite news |last=Rasbach |first=Noreen |title=Hot Stock |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/hot-stock/article4187361/ |newspaper=Report on Business Magazine |publisher=The Globe and Mail |date=2009-06-03 |access-date=2020-02-16}} Livingstone picked up additional roles at Getty (including SVP Consumer{{Cite news |last=Shankland |first=Stephen |title=iStockphoto founder, CEO leaves Getty |url=https://www.cnet.com/news/istockphoto-founder-ceo-leaves-getty/ |publisher=CNET |date=2009-03-23 |access-date=2020-02-16}}) but left Getty and iStockphoto in 2009.

In 2010, he became CEO of Saatchi Online, an internet-based art community, and later resigned his position in 2012.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

In 2013, unhappy with the direction of iStock under Getty (and following the expiration of his non-compete agreement) Livingston founded Stocksy United, a royalty-free stock photo and video agency based in Victoria, BC.{{Cite web |last=Purvis |first=Mifi |title=Calgary's iStock founders are back in competition with Getty Images |url=https://www.canadianbusiness.com/technology-news/a-disruptive-explosion-of-images/ |publisher=Canadian Business |date=2013-10-11 |access-date=2020-02-16 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225143349/https://www.canadianbusiness.com/technology-news/a-disruptive-explosion-of-images/ |url-status=dead }}