Category: Stock Art Buyers
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Jupiter combines Photos.com with micropayment site Stockxpert in single subscription
Touting that it is now offering the best of both worlds in a single subscription. Jupiterimages, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), has announced that it is now offering a single subscription product that incorporates the Photos.com collection of more than 360,000 professional images and the Stockxpert collection of more than 1.3 million micropayment images into a single subscription product. The new service will be branded as Photos.com Plus and Subscriptions are available for one month, three month and one year terms (limited to 750 images per month) with monthly subscriptions starting at $249.95.
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The Medical File launches royalty-free collection and assignment division
The Medical File, a rights-managed (RM) stock licensing company founded by industry veteran Barbara Gottlieb specializing in medical imagery, has announced that the business is growing in two unique directions with the launch of a royalty-free (RF) image collection and an assignment photography division. According to Gottlieb, “we have made these additions to be able to supply all the forms of medical imagery our clients are looking for: Illustration and Photography; Color and Black and White; 1, 2 or 3 Dimensional and Animation; Stock and Assignment”.
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Digital Railroad partners with Qualex to offer print fulfillment
Digital Railroad, a leading provider of online archiving and marketing services to professional photographers, has announced that it has partnered with Qualex, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak, to allow contributing photographers to offer prints and print-related products utilizing the images currently available in the members Digital Railroad archive. Through the Qualex fulfillment service member photographers will have the opportunity to generate additional revenue from each image with terms where the photographer will receive up to 90% of the gross sale price, less the product fee (a fee meant to cover the cost of production and fulfillment).
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Latin Stock launches royalty-free stock photography collection
Latin Stock, a stock licensing company with more than 20 years experience in image distribution in Central and South America has finally made the leap into the production side of the business with the launch of a new Royaly-Free (RF) image collection offered for non-exclusive distribution through a network of global partnerships. The company touts an innovative approach has allowed them to produce a unique collection of more than 3,500 images with 100% of the collection produced in LatinAmerica, with Latin models, Latin photographers in authentic Latin settings. The images will be offered at prices starting at US $49 for web resolution US $129 for lo-res files.
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Peter Arnold launches royalty-free stock photo collection
Peter Arnold Inc. a specialty library from NYC featuring an eclectic collection of Medical, Nature, and Science imagery, has announced that it has just launched a Royalty Free (RF) image collection. The images can be licensed online and download in file sizes ranging from 1 to 50 Megabytes. The Royalty Free line will complement the more than half million images already available for Rights Managed licensing.
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Mary Evans now representing Castle Howard image collection
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialty library from the UK featuring historical images, has announced that it has signed a deal to be the exclusive global licensing agent for the official image collection of Castle Howard in Yorkshire. Castle Howard is one of Britain’s finest and best-loved stately homes. The construction of Castle Howard took more than 100 years before it could be said to have been finally completed, and spanned the lifetime of three earls and numerous architects and craftsmen. Castle Howard, known to film buffs as the fictional Brideshead in Evelyn Waugh’s “Brideshead Revisited”.
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Thought Equity Motion develops licensing models to serve emerging media producers
Denver based Thought Equity Motion, a leading stock footage licensing company, has announced that it has developed new pricing and licensing options to serve the needs of emerging media producers. The footage will be offered in different “stores” that are segmented for the user based on the intended use. In a specific store the user can browse through content that has already been fully cleared meaning web content producers can create online video ads using top notch footage from the “Web Store” with clips starting at just $49.
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PhotoShelter now offering limited collection of fine art prints
PhotoShelter, a digital storage and stock photography marketplace for more than 42,000 photographers, has announced that it has compiled a selection of images from the PhotoShelter collection to be offered as prints for a limited time at photoshelterprints.com. The images were hand-picked by the company’s editors to include a wide variety of subjects ranging from exquisite floral still life to Las Vegas Elvis impersonators. Print prices range from $100 to $450 and all images are printed on archival quality Kodak Pro Endura Supra paper.
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Robert Harding now offering £25 / $50 / €35 web license for RM Images
Robert Harding World Imagery, a specialist image library from the UK focused on travel images, has announced that it is offering a simplified flat rate web-use license for rights-managed (RM) images at just £25 ($50, €35). The new license parameters allow publishers to display the image any number of times on supplementary pages of a single website for up to two years. For homepage use the license fee will be doubled (£50,$100. €70).
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Science Photo Library launches new royalty-free collection
Science Photo Library, a traditional stock photo agency from the UK specializing in scientific imagery, has announced the launch on a new royalty-free (RF) collection. The collection is expected to mirror the type of imagery offered by the agency for rights-managed (RM) and includes images taken with scientific equipment from X-rays to scanning electron microscopy, as well as a broad selection of contemporary photography on subjects ranging from medicine and healthcare to the environment and technology.
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Goldstein and Davis launch Medicimage specializing in healthcare and medical imagery
Two friends, award-winning press photographer Stewart Goldstein and his friend David Davis, former financial journalist with The Times and vice chairman of Edelman, have launched a new specialty stock library which they believe will address the needs of a vastly underserved market for healthcare and medical imagery. The two friends who launched Medicimage Ltd above a garage in North London, claim to have invested more than 3 years of their time and £500,000 (approx $1 million) in Medicimage, which is launching in Beta version at medicimage.co.uk with a wholly-owned archive of 100,000 original images and many hundreds of hours of broadcast quality video footage.
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Getty Images partners with Yahoo to monetize Flickr images
Getty Images, the worlds largest image licensing company, has announced that it has partnered with Yahoo-owned Flickr, one of the world’s largest photo sharing communities, allowing Getty to reach out to Flickr’s more than 27 million members to monetize their Flickr images. Getty plans to offer the images as part of a new Flickr branded collection of royalty free, rights ready and rights managed photographs. “This partnership is testimony to the Flickr community of photographers who have influenced the aesthetics of photography with authentic, creative and cutting-edge images which will now be available to Getty Images’ customers around the world,” said Kakul Srivastava, General Manager, Flickr.
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Masterfile launches promotional magazine called Mysteries
Masterfile, a stock photography company based in Toronto with offices in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, has announced the launch of a new 32-page, full-color promotional magazine called Mysteries to be released by mid-June. The company states that the mysterious new Limited Edition magazine “takes inspiration from Oscar Wilde (the true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible).” The magazine was created in-house by Masterfile’s European design department.
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ImageSpan closes $11 million 2nd round financing
ImageSpan Inc., a software company that offers a content licensing platform for digital media based in Sausalito, CA, has announced that it has closed a second round financing of $11 million from a group led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). Existing investors Greycroft Partners, headed by Alan Patricof, and Village Ventures also participated. Additional funds came from the New York City Investment Fund, City Lights Capital Management and Ackerley Partners LLC. “We see ImageSpan solving a very serious pain point affecting the entire media landscape today—that of licensing and monetizing digital image and video content at a time when both of these content categories are growing increasingly important on the web,” said Richard Sarnoff, President of BDMI.
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Fotosearch celebrates three million images
Fotosearch, a stock photography agency, based in Waukesha, WI, is now celebrating the milestone of three-million images. The company claims to be growing at a rate of 25,000 new images per week. The site is offered in more than a dozen languages and features an extensive library of rights-managed and royalty-free photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio from more than 140 publishers located all around the world.
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Kids Images launches new stock photography website
Kids Images, a speciality stock photo library in München Germany featuring rights-managed (RM) images of kids and children, has announced that it has launched a new website. The new site was created on the Picturemaxx media marketing platform allowing the niche agency to offer many new eye-catching features including improved search and download options.
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Visualphotos partners with Mediaright to open office in Russia
Visualphotos, a stock photo agency with offices in Israel, Greece and Turkey, has announced that it has opened an office in Moscow as a joint venture with Mediaright Ltd. (a global venture company with diversified holdings in New Media and content syndication). The new office was opened on May 30th, in the heart of Moscow close to the Red Square area and will be managed by Mr. Viktor Maslov. “The fact that the Russian Federation ad spending is growing constantly coupled with the fact that copyrights are now observed by the business sector, means that we have a bright future. “ states Erez Miller, President of the Visual Group.
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ITN Source representing footage from Northern Ireland’s UTV
ITN Source has announced that it has penned an exclusive deal with Northern Ireland based broadcaster UTV to represent its news and regional programming content. UTV is the most watched channel in Northern Ireland with a peaktime share in 2007 of 32%, well ahead of the ITV Network share of 25.3%, BBC NI’s share of 21% and more than three times its nearest commercial competitor Channel 4’s 9% share. The UTV archive includes almost fifty years of unique Northern Ireland footage across politics, entertainment, wildlife and sport.
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AudioMicro launches micro-payment stock music platform
AudioMicro, a new micro stock site has launched for composers, songwriters, sound designers, and audio engineers to license, collaborate, and communicate on a platform dedicated solely to audio content. With its launch the company has also announced a promotional offer where the First 100 users with 100 accepted stock audio uploads will automatically receive a 1GB Apple iPod shuffle. In addition, contributors will receive royalties of 50% for non-exclusive contributors and 60% for exclusive contributors.
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Mary Evans launches user generated content site The History Album
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialty library featuring historical images has taken a leap into the world of user generated content with a new site called The History Album. The site is designed as a place for users to upload and share scanned photographs with the world and order prints. Users can also comment and add essential keywords which will make them searchable.
