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Getty adds Medio and Rubberball to cart
Getty has continued shopping for wholly owned content and recently announced the purchase of Royalty Free (RF) producers Medio Images and a large portion of the wholly owned images offered by Rubberball.
Rubberball – Alan Bailey (Co-founder) sent an e-mail to distributors on October 12th stating that Rubberball has sold approx 8350 images of the 9000 images offered in Rubberball’s active collection. Rubberball has stated that as a result they are aggressively producing new images and plan to have approx 4000 new images to offer by mid-November 2005. Alan goes on to explain “Getty has informed us that they will be pulling the images from general distribution by December 1, 2005. For distributors who now carry Getty-owned images, such as PhotoDisc or the DV collection, Michael Teaster has informed us that most of the images purchased from Rubberball will likely come back to those distributors in one form or another under a Getty brand.”
Medio – In an e-mail sent by Andrew Booth (Vice President, International Sales) to distributors on Tuesday October 18th Getty has announced the September 15th purchase of Medio Images. Medio is known for its strength in Latin images and boasts approximately 35,000 Royalty Free (RF) images in its archive as well as a healthy distribution network. According to the e-mail “Getty Images will be honouring all existing distributor agreements in place.”
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