The IPTC is excited to announce a new membership category aimed exclusively at tech startups working in the news and media industry. Read more...

The IPTC is very happy to announce that as a result of our collaboration with Google and CEPIC, Google Images’s new licensable badge and other related features are now live. Read more...

The IPTC Video Metadata Working Group is proud to release the latest version of its mapping standard, Video Metadata Hub. Version 1.3 was approved by the IPTC Standards Committee on 13 May 2020. Read more...

The IPTC NewsCodes Working Group has been very busy in the last six months. At the IPTC Spring 2020 Meeting, we announced three new language translations of our core Media Topics vocabulary, many term updates, and a new NewsCodes Guidelines document. Read more...

Previously, we shared​ that Google was making image credits and usage rights information more visible on Google Images. Google now displays information about image copyright and ownership details, alongside creator and credit info, when websites and photo-owners make that information available for Google to crawl. Since the announcement there has been steady growth in the amount images containing these embedded metadata fields, which in turn has helped drive greater user awareness of copyright for images on the internet. Read more...

At last week's Spring Meeting IPTC updated the News in JSON standard (ninjs) to version 1.3. The JSON schema of the new version can be accessed at https://www.iptc.org/std/ninjs/. Read more...

The agenda for the IPTC Spring Meeting (May 11 - 13 2020) has been announced, featuring a focus on news automation. Read more...

At the IPTC Autumn Meeting in Toronto in 2018, IPTC considered the issues of "trust and credibility" in news media. We looked at the existing initiatives and considered whether IPTC could contribute to the space. Read more...

In late February we pushed the latest update to Media Topics, IPTC's main controlled vocabulary for subject classification (also known as a taxonomy). Read more...

We were very much looking forward to our IPTC 2020 Spring Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, beautiful city on the Baltic Sea and home city of Brendan Quinn, Managing Director of IPTC. But unfortunately, circumstances mean that we can not hold the meeting in person this time. Read more...