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Jupiter brings subscription service to Japan
Jupiter Images has launched Photostock.jp, a Japanese language version of its Photos.com image subscription service. According to CEO Alan Meckler, this move exemplifies how Jupiter approaches the market in Japan differently from its competition. Currently, Jupiter’s presence in Japan takes the form of a partnership, started in 1999, with the Japanese software and gaming site company, AERIA. In addition, Jupiter already offers another Japanese language subscription service in the country, clipart.jp, the Japanese counterpart to Clipart.com, and has managed the Japanese news and information web-site, www.japan.internet.com since the mid-90’s. Jupiter plans to build a creative image team in Japan, but not to set up a full-scale stock image business the way Getty and Corbis have done. “Japan can be a black hole for business,” says Meckler. Nonetheless, he added that Jupiter will soon make more announcements about their growing offerings in the Japanese market. These new initiatives will be consistent with Jupiter’s strategy to build and work with Internet-based photo communities, another approach that separates Jupiter from its stock photo industry rivals. As for the rest of Asia, Jupiter has stated plans to continue working with representative agencies in the Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and China. Click here to view the original press release.
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