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Masterfile Offers Royalty-Free Subscriptions
by Jess on Jul.29, 2010, under photo agency, royalty-free, stock images
Toronto/Düsseldorf, July 27, 2010. Masterfile Corporation, one of the world’s leading independent stock photo agencies, has added a royalty-free subscription service to its product line. Subscription plans allow clients to download a fixed number of royalty-free images in a set resolution for a flat fee. Masterfile now offers 4 different subscription plans: low, medium, super-hi resolution plans, and one which allows for mixed resolutions in a convenient and flexible “combo” pack. All subscriptions are available on monthly or yearly terms.
Veer Introduces Redesigned Website with Uncomplicated Shopping Experience, Affordable Images and Font
by Jess on Jul.13, 2010, under photo agency, rights managed, royalty-free, stock images, website
CALGARY, Alberta, July 13 /PRNewswire/ — Veer (www.veer.com), a provider of affordable and reliable creative elements that makes it easier to be creative, today announced the launch of its redesigned website, veer.com. To celebrate, people who complete a full registration on Veer.com (see website for details) will receive 10 free Veer Credits that can, for example, buy 10 extra small images, or a font, a small image and an extra small image.
Veer now has more than 1.5 million creative photos and illustrations covering a broad range of subject categories, over 12,000 different contemporary and classic fonts and a selection of clever creative merchandise. Veer’s creative elements are priced so affordably that nearly anyone can add style to business, marketing and personal design projects ranging from websites and blog posts to business presentations and ad campaigns.
Thinkstock Launches New Image Pack Subscription Service
by Jess on Jul.13, 2010, under photo agency, royalty-free, stock images
Seattle, WA, July 9, 2010. Thinkstock, an image subscription site from Getty Images, today announced the introduction of image packs. This new product offers value-conscious creative processionals pre-paid access to imagery and an even greater choice, value and flexibility in licensing imagery.Customers can now choose to license 5, 25, 100 or 250 high-quality royalty-free stock photos and vector illustrations from Thinkstock’s collection of more than five million images.
Reflex Stock Partner With Fogstock & Vico Images to Distribute New Innovative and Stylish Royalty Free Stock Photography Collection
by Jess on Jul.12, 2010, under photo agency, rights managed, royalty-free, stock images
Reflex Stock, the award-winning international stock photography company is pleased to announce a new partnership with Fogstock & Vico Images, enabling Reflex Stock to distribute their wide ranging collection of 30,000 high quality stock photos through its global image library.
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.
Thinkstock Launches Innovative Social Media-Based Art Buying Service
by Jess on Jun.09, 2010, under photo agency, social media, stock images
Seattle, WA, June 7, 2010. WHAT: Thinkstock, an image subscription product that offers value-conscious professionals a new industry-standard in quality, simplicity, and value with world-class legal protection, today announced a new social media-based art buying service, the @Thinkstock Social Art Buyer.
Shutterstock Announces Search Upgrades, Including Real-Time Search
by Jess on Jun.07, 2010, under photo agency, royalty-free, stock images
NEW YORK, June 7, 2010/PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock, the leading global provider of stock images and footage by subscription, is investing aggressively in search technology with a series of innovations in the first half of 2010.
Offering more than 11 million images and 180,000 footage clips, with search supported in 10 languages, Shutterstock helps busy professionals quickly find the right royalty-free content for any project.
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.
Shutterstock Supports Launch of Stockphotorights.com
by Jess on May.17, 2010, under law, photo agency, photography, rights and permissions, stock images, website
NEW YORK, May 17 /PRNewswire/ — Shutterstock announced today that it is a founding partner in Stockphotorights.com, an educational resource for image buyers backed by several major stock photo agencies.
Stockphotorights.com was created to educate image buyers regarding the legalities of image usage and to provide information and advice on how to license images with confidence. The site, which launched today, was created in response to a survey of image users that showed many gaps in legal understanding of picture licensing. Stockphotorights.com was built by Getty Images and has the support of leading industry associations PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) and BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies).
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Veer ‘Dash for Cash’ Gives Contributors Chance to Earn Extra Money
by Jess on May.07, 2010, under photo agency, stock images
Calgary, May 5, 2010. Veer (www.veer.com), a producer and provider of affordable visual elements and design-related products today announced the Veer® Dash for Cash where image contributors have a chance to earn their share of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Veer plans to give away to new and existing contributors during the promotion.
