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Getty Images and AFP renew partnership agreement
Getty Images, widely considered to be the world’s largest stock licensing company, has announced that it has renewed a deal with the global press agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP) allowing both companies to leverage the others archive. The renewed contract takes effect on 1st June 2009 and extends the partnership between the two companies for an additional three years from the initial agreement put into effect in 2003.
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Fotolia appoints former iStockPhoto co-founder Patrick Lor as President for North America
Fotolia, a popular micro-payment stock photography site, has announced that it has hired of Patrick Lor, co-founder of iStockPhoto, as the company’s new President for North America. Lor has been tasked with overseeing North American operations for Fotolia, which currently has a presence in 10 countries worldwide. He will be working with co-founder and CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff on continued expansion strategies for the company, which has nearly 4 million monthly unique visitors (comScore), more than five million images available for license and more than 1 million members worldwide.
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Framepool sponsors CLIO Awards
Framepool, a stock footage company founded by filmmakers with offices in Munich, London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami, has announced that it is sponsoring this year’s CLIO Awards in Las Vegas. The CLIO Awards is one of the world’s most recognized international advertising and design competition honouring creative excellence and innovation in the industry. All awards will be presented during the 50th Anniversary CLIO Awards Festival at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, May 12 - 14, 2009.
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Masterfile’s Endless Media named as an Official Webby Honoree
The Webby Awards established in 1996 by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes such diverse members as Richard Branson, David Bowie, Matt Groening and Harvey Weinstein, as well as writers and editors from a large array of publications. It is considered by many to be the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. This year Masterfile submitted their new Endless Media search interface and received the award of Official Honoree in the Professional Services category in the 13th Annual Webby Awards. There were nearly to 10,000 entries received from over 60 countries.
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Photolibrary now representing content from VisitBritain
Photolibrary, one of the leading independent global stock licensing companies with offices in the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, Singapore, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates, has announced that it has signed an exclusive deal to distribute imagery and footage from Britain on View, the on-line image resource of VisitBritain. As part of the agreement Photolibrary will develop and manage a commercially orientated website specializing in UK related material located at britainonview.com.
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Johnér Bildbyrå expands to Norway and Finland
Johnér Bildbyrå, a stock photography company based in Stockholm specializing in still images and footage with a Scandinavian feel, has announced that it is expanding its Nordic operations to Norway and Finland. This follows the a similar step made by the company in Denmark last year.
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Masterfile opens office in India
Masterfile, a stock photography company based in Toronto with offices in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, has announced that it is expanding operations in South Asia by launching local service for clients in India. The company has partnered with stock photography, television and publishing, veteran Ramji Ravindran to open Its office based in Hyderabad. Masterfile India , will be the exclusive distributor of the Masterfile Collection in South Asia, serving clients in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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WIPO selects ‘Promoting Green Innovation’ theme for 2009 World Intellectual Property Day
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a specialized agency of the United Nations, has announced the theme for its annual World Intellectual Property Day to be held on April 26 will be “promoting green innovation as a key element in meeting the challenges of climate change”. In his message to mark the day, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry highlights the contribution that a balanced intellectual property (IP) system can make in enabling the development of technology-based solutions to mitigate the impact of climate change.
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Action Plus acquired by Portray Limited
Action Plus, as 30-year old sports image library, based in London, has been acquired by Portray Limited, a company wholly owned by industry veteran Stephen Hearn. For 30 years, Action Plus was owned and operated by Richard Francis, a well known and sought after car and motorbike event photographer. The library, mostly editorial with news/feature images covering over 300 different sporting events, now extends to over 1.3 million images and is currently represented by more than 20 photo agencies worldwide.
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Gulf Images launches upload module for user-generated content
Gulf Images, a stock photography company based in Dubai has announced that it has launch an Upload utility to allow professional, semi-professional and serious hobbyists to upload content to be represented by the agency. “Through Gulfimages.com Upload we are hoping to tap into unrecognized photography talent in the region, nurture their development and help them to start earning some serious money. We are also hoping to reach out to professionals and serious hobbyists from around the world who may have images on the Arabic world , said Mr Pankaj Shah, Managing Partner, Gulfimages.com.
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StockShop appoints Dorian Romer to lead expansion effort in New York City
Stockshop, a boutique rights-managed (RM) stock agency from Boston has announced that it is expanding its presence in New York city with the appointment of industry veteran Dorian Romer as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing. Romer joins StockShop LLC after serving in a similar role for Veer. “Dorian is the ideal person for this position,” says Maggie Fellner Hunt, StockShop’s president and founder. “Her depth of experience and commitment to the industry are exactly what we need to help grow our business. It’s a very exciting time for StockShop and we are delighted to have Dorian on the team.”
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Reflex Stock hires new Account Manager in New York City office
Reflex Stock, a stock photography company based in Northern Ireland, has announced that it has hired Stephanie Levine as an Account Manager to work in the company’s recently opened New York City office. Stephanie comes to Reflex Stock with a decade of experience including her most recent experience as an Account Manager for Digital Railroad.
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Learning-Pictures.com launches niche stock photo company targeting educational market
A new stock photography company called the Education Stock Pictures Company based in Chicago, Illinois, has launched a new stock picture site located at Learning-Pictures.com. Yhe new site features content from multiple sources including Encyclopaedia Britannica, De Agostini Editore, Amana Images, Corbis, Scala Archives, the New York Public Library, Peter Arnold, Blend Images, Superstock, and others. “We are delighted that Learning Pictures is representing our picture content which we have developed and produced for our own publications and online educational services” said Michael Ross, Senior Vice President of Production at Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Canada Post selects Image from Alaska Stock to raise awareness about global warming
Alaska Stock Images, a specialty agency featuring photos from from Alaska and Antarctica, has announced that a polar bear image from its archive has been selected by Canada Post to be used as part of an international postal awareness campaign on the effects of global warming. The image of the lone polar bear swimming in melting sea ice in Bellot Strait near Resolute Bay was created by Alaska Stock photographer Amanda Byrd. “I am truly honored that my image of the polar bear has been chosen to be part of Canada Post’s commitment of global warming awareness, and I am excited that this stamp will be viewed in some 30 other countries,” remarked Amanda.
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Blend Images launches new website and brand identity
Blend Images, a photographer-owned producer and distributor of royalty-free (RF) and rights-managed (RM) content, has announced that it has launched an updated website, logo, and brand identity. The agency sought to emphasize its ethnically diverse collection of business and lifestyle imagery. The campaign and design were developed by New York agency Spil Creative, an integrated design firm with expertise in visual branding.
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Kursiv celebrating 15 years of business
Kursiv, a swiss stock photography agency, has announced that it is celebrating its 15th anniversary. The business was launched in 1994 by Karsten Risseeuw as a software distributor with specialized products for designers. In 1997, Kursiv started selling royalty-free image CDs – at that time a new and promising concept, in times where internet was slow and rights managed imagery expensive. By 1998 a dozen collections were represented. “We have sent out over 100 different image catalogs to our customers in those years”, Karsten Risseeuw recalls.
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A look at Alamy’s 4Q Numbers
With Getty going private and absorbing Jupiter Images, and Superstock having gone bankrupt, for the first time in over a decade, the stock photo industry is without a publicly traded company within its ranks. We can no longer rely on industry leader Getty’s SEC filings for indications of that company’s health, nor for hints at wider trends in the industry. We do still, however, have the quarterly reports from Alamy, reports unusually detailed for a privately held company. The Oxford, UK based Alamy provides a number of stats from which we can extrapolate trends both at Alamy itself and in the industry at large. Their 4Q, 2008 report adds even more detail about Alamy’s geographic sources of revenue, as the company has provided revenue figures for the three main currencies in which it operates, US$, Euros and British Sterling. Here’s our analysis of what Alamy’s 4Q’08 report reveals:
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Picturemaxx AG opens office in Vienna
Munich-based picturemaxx AG, a German company providing solutions for archiving, managing and marketing digital content, has announced that it is expanding with an office in Vienna Austria to serve customers in northern, central, eastern and southern Europe. “In Germany, we have achieved a penetration of just under 90% in the picture market“, explains Bernd Czichon, CEO at picturemaxx AG. “It therefore seems only logical that we make our product portfolio accessible to a wider customer base in the future.“
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SuperStock/RGB Ventures taps PicScout to track copyright infringements
SuperStock, a stock photography business that was recently purchased by a consortium of RF suppliers called RGB Ventures hasrecently signed an agreement with PicScout to track and enforce copyright infringements. “We are pleased to renew our relationship with PicScout,” said Lanny Ziering, CEO, SuperStock. “We chose PicScout because of their technology leadership in image tracking. PicScout will help us, as a stock agency, promote the value of copyright ownership for the artists we represent.”
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The Image Works commemorates the 40th anniversary of Woodstock
The Image Works, a stock photography agency based in Woodstock, NY, has put together a collection of iconic photos to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Woodstock Music and Arts Fair. The collection includes many new and never-before-seen images of the festival that became known simply as Woodstock.
