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Masterfile Joins the Microstock Revolution
by Jess on Jul.04, 2010, under microstock, photo agency, rights managed, royalty-free, stock images
Toronto, CA, July 3, 2010. On July 1, 2010, the assets of Crestock, a Norwegian microstock agency (www.crestock.com), were acquired by Masterfile Corporation, a premium stock photo agency based in Toronto, Canada (www.masterfile.com).
Masterfile is a privately-owned company founded in 1981 and is globally recognized in the advertising, publishing and stock photography community as a leading rights-managed and royalty-free licensor. Crestock was founded in 2005 in Bodø, Norway, and is well-known in the microstock community with over 100,000 members and close to 1 million images.
123RF.com Launches Editorial Image Collection
by Jess on Jun.23, 2010, under editorial, microstock, royalty-free, stock images
Houston, TX, June 22, 2010. 123RF.com, one of the world’s leading microstock photography supplier and distributor, has achieved another milestone by adding a comprehensive array of Editorial images to its vast online library. Publishing houses, book writers, journalists, bloggers and Editors of newsrooms, will find the collection of Editorial content at 123RF.com growing steadily as 123RF.com has implemented procedures to speedily review and approve its crowdsourced submissions of new Editorial content in under 24 working hours.
Dream Group Launches New Stock Photo Site Stockfresh.com
by Jess on Jun.02, 2010, under microstock, photo agency, royalty-free, website
Budapest, Hungary, June 1, 2010. After the success of the widely popular stock photography sites Stockxpert (stockxpert.com) and stock.xchng (sxc.hu), Hungary based Dream Group is entering the stock photo marketplace once again with Stockfresh (stockfresh.com) a brand new microstock offering. The new website aims to offer the best royalty free images in the market at prices everyone can afford – via a hassle-free, clean and easy to use interface.
Pixamba transforms microstock photography image management
by Jess on May.25, 2010, under asset management, microstock, stock images, technology, website
May 19, 2010. Pixamba (www.pixamba.com) has today launched the Pixamba Media Management platform, a powerful yet affordable digital asset management service, specifically designed to help microstock photography users to manage their portfolio of licensed stock images effectively.
iSyndica Acquires Stock Photography Agency Fotomind’s Content
by Jess on Apr.20, 2010, under microstock, photo agency, stock images
Nashua, NH (PRWEB) April 20, 2010 — The closing of Fotomind in mid-April, a Romania-based microstock agency, sent shudders in the community of stock photographers that make a living selling their content online. With a bare two weeks’ notice, the company stopped its operations and went offline, leaving behind a crowd of upset contributors with unpaid commission – as per its policy, common in the industry, Fotomind had a minimum payout requirement that many of its photographers hadn’t reached.
123RF.com Launches New Website with Many Exciting Features
by Jess on Apr.01, 2010, under microstock, royalty-free, stock images, website
Houston, Texas, March 31, 2010. Royalty-Free stock library 123RF.com has relaunched its website promising to be faster, more responsive given a sleeker and modernized interface furnished with several added features. “We recognize that some of our clients are always on the move, so we’ve developed a mobile-enabled website that specially caters to clients who own an iPhone, iPod or other 3G enabled device. The mobile website can be accessed immediately at http//m.123rf.com“, says Stephanie Sitt, CEO of 123RF.com.
PhotoXpress v2.0 shakes up the microstock world
by Jess on Mar.26, 2010, under microstock, photography, royalty-free
March 24, 2010, Hartford, CT. PhotoXpress.com re-launches with 10 times more images and new subscription options that makes www.photoXpress.com the most affordable source for royalty-free images on the web.
Image downloaders now have the option to upgrade to either a PhotoXpress Lite or Premium subscription. PhotoXpress fans save thousands of dollars in comparison to other sites. With a PhotoXpress Lite subscription, users can download over 15,000 royalty-free images/month, for as low as $9.99/month.
iStockphoto Creates a Collection of Free Stock Images for Google’s Blogger Template Designer
by Jess on Mar.14, 2010, under blog, iStockphoto, microstock, photo agency, royalty-free, stock images
Calgary, Alberta, March 11, 2010. iStockphoto®, the world’s busiest online stock image marketplace, today announced a new collection of images and illustrations available free of charge to Google Blogger users as part of the new Blogger™ Template Designer.
Blogger is the leading blogging product in the world with hundreds of millions of page views per day and millions of active bloggers. The Blogger Template Designer makes it simple for bloggers to express themselves through unique and beautiful web design.
It’s easy to choose a base template, customize the background image, and modify the layout to create a professional site on the web. Users can access the iStock image collection directly from the Blogger Template Designer. There they will find a diverse collection of free images from iStockphoto. With just a few clicks, people can add punch and personality to their blogs.
Cash for bloggers with Fotolia and WordPress Plug-in
by Jess on Feb.04, 2010, under blog, microstock, photo agency, royalty-free, social media, visual content, website
New York, NY, Feb. 02, 2010. Microstock entrepreneurs Lee Torrens and Amos Struck teamed up to launch the Microstock Photo Plugin for WordPress. Based on Fotolia’s most powerful API, bloggers can now instantly search from 8-million royalty-free images on Fotolia and add them to their posts without leaving WordPress. What’s even better is that the application suggests photos based on blog tags. All bloggers have to do is select the image they want and it’s automatically inserted into the post.
Introducing Thinkstock: a New Kind of Image Subscription
by Jess on Feb.02, 2010, under Getty Images, Jupiter Images, iStockphoto, microstock, photo agency, stock images, visual content
New York, NY, Feb 01, 2010. Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual and digital media content, today launches Thinkstock (www.thinkstock.com), a new image subscription product that provides one of the most complete offerings available in the marketplace. Developed for value-conscious creative professionals, Thinkstock is one of the only subscription products to offer this level of quality, simplicity and value all in one place, with world-class legal protection.
