Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

YouTube Announces Year End Video Roundup

San Bruno, CA, Dec. 27, 2007. YouTube, the leading online video community that allows people to discover, watch and share originally created videos, today announced the 2007 YouTube Year End Video Roundup.

Every day hundreds of millions of videos are viewed on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded. Through a formula that includes view counts, most shared, most discussed, top rated and general popularity, it is possible to see which YouTube videos people were thinking and talking about most.

"This year, YouTube and its users were at the forefront of politics, music, entertainment and more", said Jamie Byrne, Head of Product Marketing for YouTube.

VOIS.com Wins Favorite Photo Sharing Website Category in Mashable.com "Open Web Awards"

Boca Raton, FL, Dec. 26, 2007 (PRNW). VOIS Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: VOIS, VOISW), one of the faster growing, global social networking communities for people ages 25 to 50 proudly announced today that it has won as Favorite Photo Sharing Website under the category: Photo Sharing.

The 13 winners of the People´s Choice component of the awards in each respective category were nominated and voted on by readers of Mashable and partner blogs. The final results were posted at
http://mashable.com/2007/12/21/open-web-awards-winners/.

PhotoSpin Launches New Image Server

Long Beach, CA, Dec. 17 [missed it earlier], 2007. PhotoSpin, a leading royalty free stock subscription company in the United States just announced the launch of their new image server, allowing  artists to upload 1000´s of new images per month.

These new images include such categories as business people, seasons, signs and medicine.  PhotoSpin bases its new image selections on customer requests and has already doubled the size of their image library this year.

Launch of the Royal YouTube Channel

London, UK, Dec. 22, 2007. The Royal Household has launched The Royal Channel on the popular video sharing website "YouTube". The channel which goes live on Sunday, the 23rd December, will showcase both archive and modern video of The Queen and other Members of the Royal Family and Royal events. New footage will be regularly added.

The Royal Channel on YouTube will also show The Queen´s 2007 Christmas Broadcast for the first time from approximately 3pm GMT on the 25th December, Christmas Day; the same time as the traditional broadcast on television.

Crestock Photoshop Contest 2007 Ends With a Bang

Bodø, Norway, Dec. 21, 2007. After four weeks of amazing photoshoping, the second annual Crestock Photoshop Competition ends.

Spaniard Jerico Santander, a very deserving winner with his dazzling image "The music nature", walks away with an Apple Mac Pro and dual 30" monitors. Despite most of the top 15 runners up being worthy of winning, both the panel of judges and the public agreed on the winner, which won by a wider margin of votes than any in any of the previous rounds.

Fotolia announces "The Infinite Collection"

World´s largest microstock agency introduces new line of stock imagery

New York, NY, Dec. 20, 2007. Fotolia, the largest online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images, announced today the creation of The Infinite Collection, a stock imagery library of approximately 15,000 images gathered from top agencies around the world.

The images will be licensed at prices ranging from $20 – $100 depending on size and resolution.

THP Photo Services: 250+ brands available to distributors worldwide

Barcelona, Dec. 20, 2007. THP Photo Services, the branch of age fotostock that offers image hosting and marketing services for the stock photography industry, has announced that it has accomplished its objective set for 2007 to make more than 250 brands, or image collections, available on the Technological Hosting Platform (THP).

Since July, THP Photo Services has added to the platform well over 650,000 professionally edited images from 129 different brands; over 20 of these brands come from new providers to the THP. The THP is expected to hold close to 6 million images by the end of the year 2007.

Art Resource to Represent the Kimbell Art Museum

New York, NY, Dec. 19, 2007. Art Resource is pleased to announce that it has been chosen by The Kimbell Art Museum to be its official image rights and reproductions representative.

The Kimbell Art Museum contains artworks and artifacts ranging from the third millennium B.C.E. to the mid-20th century.

The collection comprises Classical, Asian, Precolumbian, African, Oceanic and European art. Major artists whose works are held by the museum include Duccio, Fra Angelico, Caravaggio, Poussin, Velázquez, Bernini, Rembrandt, Goya, Monet, Cézanne, Picasso, Mondrian and Matisse.

Idée’s Image Recognition Technology Enhances Social-Content Sites like Digg

Toronto, Canada, Dec. 19, 2007. Image recognition market leader Idée Inc. today announced that its powerful image recognition technology effectively helps social-content sites improve their user experience by identifying duplicate content.

Idée´s advanced image recognition technology identifies all variations of an image or video before it is added to the pool of site content, with unmatched speed and accuracy.

Digg.com, the pioneering social-content website, is using Idée´s image recognition technology for Digg's new dedicated images section.

The Industry Measure Releases New Edition of Design & Production Market Survey Report

New York, NY, Dec. 19, 2007. The Industry Measure today released the latest results of its twice-yearly survey of the graphic design and production markets, the most recent in a series of surveys that the company has conducted since 1996.

The Winter 2007/2008 survey also asked several specialty questions on such topics as stock photography, like how many images per month creative companies buy as well as how much they spend.