Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Dreamstime.com partners with Boom Bucket Mobile to provide images that speak louder than words

Global Microstock Agency Enters Telecommunications Arena

Brentwood, Tennessee, May 31, 2007. Dreamstime.com and Boom Bucket Mobile, two global leaders in their innovative and extraordinary areas of business, have joined together to make images available no matter where you are.  Dreamstime.com CEO and co-founder, Serban Enache, announced the microstock agency’s unique partnership with Boom Bucket Mobile to provide the best-of-the-best photos and images to Boom Bucket Mobile customers.

iView MediaPro Submission Utility Now Serves Corbis Shooters

London, UK, May 30, 2007. Digital asset cataloging pioneer iView Multimedia Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., today announced a powerful validation and upload tool that gives Corbis shooters a simplified solution for transferring their image files from an iView MediaPro catalog directly to Corbis.

a21 Board Member Resigns

Jacksonville, FL, May 30, 2007. a21, Inc. ("a21") (OTCBB:ATWO), a leading online digital content marketplace, today announced the resignation of C. Donald Wiggins from the Company’s Board of Directors. “Don’s contributions to a21 have been invaluable,” says Phil Garfinkle, Executive Chairman of a21, Inc.

Fox Interactive Media Agrees to Acquire Photobucket and Flektor, Inc

Los Angeles, CA, May 30, 2007. Fox Interactive Media (FIM), a division of News Corporation, today announced separate agreements to acquire Photobucket and Flektor. Photobucket is one of the Web’s most popular photo- and video-sharing services, and Flektor is a next-generation Web site that provides users with a suite of Web-based tools to transform their photos and videos into dynamic slideshows, postcards, live interactive presentations and video mash-ups. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Corbis Chooses Rhozet for Video Transcoding to Enhance Leading Media Management Solution

Santa Clara, CA, May 29, 2007. Rhozet Corporation today announced that its video transcoding technology has been chosen by Corbis, which offers the leading hosted Media Management solution for managing digital media assets for major corporations such as, Bechtel, Malibu-Kahlua International, Microsoft, Starbucks and Universal Studios Hollywood.

Getty Images Footage Provided to Competing Filmmakers on FOX's New Reality Show 'On the Lot'

Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA, May 29, 2007. Getty Images (NYSE: GYI) today announced that it is the official footage partner for FOX's new competition reality series, "On the Lot," providing filmmakers a custom library of Getty Images Footage clips each week.

Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography Announces Expansion

Turners Falls, MA, May 26, 2007. George J. Rosa III, Founder and President of Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography has announced that the museum will expand its exhibition, archive and exhibit preparation spaces in January, 2008.

Travel Lounge Images launches in London

London, UK, May 25, 2007. Travel Lounge Images Ltd has been set up by two experienced photographers, Michael Schindel and Ingolf Pompe, who have taken years to build the finest collection of travel images they could find. The work of more than 80 selected professional photographers is represented, covering most popular holiday destinations around the globe.

PantherMedia and Impact in IT launch new platform enabling stock agencies to distribute budget RF images

Munich, Germany and Haarlem, Netherlands, May 25, 2007. PantherMedia, Germanys leading community-based stock agency and Impact in IT, Dutch platform provider, join forces to launch a new Royalty Free Budget Images Platform at the CEPIC conference in Florence, Italy. While PantherMedia is contributing more than 120.000 royalty free images and 66 CDs, Impact in IT completes this service with a fully e-commerce enabled and highly automated technical platform, Stock Media Server.

Drive Images™ by eVox Productions Gets Into Gear

Los Angeles, CA, May 24, 2007. Advertisers, graphics designers, editors and anybody who wished they could tap into better sources of automotive imagery are about to have their wishes granted with the launch of Drive Images™. This high-resolution stock library is a collection of images dedicated exclusively to the automobile.