Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

a21 Promotes Ian Lishman to Vice President, Visual Content at SuperStock

Lishman's 20+ Years of Creative Experience to Drive the Way a21/SuperStock Creates and Gathers Visual Content

Jacksonville, FL – July 27, 2004 – a21, Inc. ("a21") (OTCBB: ATWO), a leading online digital content marketplace, announced the promotion of Ian Lishman to the role of Vice President, Visual Content at SuperStock, Inc., a subsidiary of a21. Lishman was formerly Managing Director of Powerstock, SuperStock's UK subsidiary. Lishman joins former AT&T executive (NYSE: T) Bruce Haertlein, recently named Vice President, Sales at SuperStock, as part of SuperStock's highly experienced and newly invigorated management team.

Launch of New PictureQuest.com Captivates Graphic Designers and Ad Agencies Where They Work

Tuesday, July 27, 2004. Dynamic Graphics Group, a leading global source for stock images, publications and events, announced today that PictureQuest, which provides royalty-free and rights-managed stock photography from leading companies around the world, and which recently launched a new, more powerful version of its e-commerce site at http://www.picturequest.com/ , has enlisted the Captivate Network, the national news and entertainment network broadcasting quality programming and advertising to professionals and affluent consumers during the workday, to run a 10-second spot illustrating the new PictureQuest site every 10 minutes on over 800 monitors in elevators in 8 major metropolitan markets nationwide.

GETTY IMAGES REPORTS FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE SECOND QUARTER OF 2004

Industry Leader Achieves 18 Percent Revenue Growth, 91 Percent Increase in Net Income
and Raises 2004 Guidance

SEATTLE, July 21, 2004 – Getty Images, Inc. (NYSE:GYI), the world’s leading imagery company,today reported results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2004.

• Revenue increased 17.7 percent over the second quarter of 2003
• Operating income grew 67.6 percent over the prior year to $39.8 million, or a margin of 26.5 percent of revenue
• Earnings per diluted share increased 78.3 percent over the year-ago period to $0.41

Buzznet Licenses Photocommunication Platform to Leading Canadian Communications Company

LOS ANGELES — July 21, 2004 — Buzznet Inc., developers of the leading photoblog community site, Buzznet.com, as well as a proprietary photocommunication platform, announces a partnership with Sympatico, Bell Canada’s consumer Internet services division. Buzznet has licensed its Buzznet platform to Sympatico Mobile and integrated it with its portal to provide mobile blogging (moblogging) to Sympatico’s users at http://mobile.sympatico.ca.

AbsolutVision Photo Gallery Celebrates iIs First Anniversary with a Special Sale

Wednesday, July 21, 2004. To celebrate its first anniversary, AbsolutVision offers - for a very limited period - a 40% discount on its annual subscription fee. For just $59 a year (normally $99), you can get now full access to thousands of high quality royalty free digital images.

AP leaves 50 Rock for West 33rd Street Headquarters

NEW YORK -- After 66 years in its Rockefeller Center headquarters, The Associated Press launched a new era July 17 with its move to a newer and far more expansive space on the west side of Manhattan.

The first shift in the new building arrived around 7:30 a.m., with Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor, greeting staffers on the 14th floor of 450 W. 33rd St.

REUTERS CREATES NEW GLOBAL PICTURE EDITOR ROLE

16 July 2004. London - Reuters (LSE: RTR, Nasdaq: RTRSY), the global information company, has appointed Thomas Szlukovenyi to the newly created post of Global Picture News Editor. The appointment marks the increasing investment Reuters is making in its photography business.

THEIMAGEFILE BECOMES FIRST IMAGE LIBRARY TO LAUNCH BESPOKE IMAGE EDITING SERVICE

Most competitively priced image editing service in the market
Will save photographers valuable time and allow them to make more money

July 13 2004. New British image library theimagefile will be the first image library to offer a bespoke image editing service to photographers. The service is being launched in partnership with a major Indian IT company and will give photographers the choice of having their PhotoShop work handled at five percent or less of the typical UK market cost.

4th Annual Picturehouse Event in New York City

A must see for all Image buyers

New York, New York - July 2004. Picturehouse is pleased to announce its 4th annual event, to be held at the beautiful Tribeca Rooftop in lower Manhattan. This year’s gathering is already proving to be bigger and better than ever before! Over 70 image archives have signed up to participate from both the US and abroad.

Keith Levit Image Collection Now Available at AbleStock.com

Renowned photographer specializes in travel, architecture and fine arts images

Thursday, July 8, 2004. Hemera®, a world leader in wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, today announced that award-winning photographer Keith Levit has made a portion of his extensive image collection available on AbleStock.com.