Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

123RF.com Unveils the EVO Label

Houston, TX, Apr. 30, 2008. Royalty-free stock image provider 123RF.com unveils EVO images today, which promises to deliver unique, high quality content with strong stock orientation to all customers.

Stephanie Sitt, the VP of Sales and Marketing for 123RF states that, “The EVO Label represents a dawning of a new breed of imagery that is especially relevant to the dynamic and changing needs of clients. Clients can expect EVO images to be of the highest technical quality and with some level of exclusivity as the license for EVO image comes at a small premium. EVO is specially tailored for clients who are looking for something not too costly and yet not so readily available at all microstock sites.”

Getty Images Photographers Continue to Earn Top Industry Awards

Podcast Interviews Bring Award-Winning Images to Life  

Seattle, WA, April 29, 2008. Getty Images, Inc. (NYSE:GYI) today announced that its photographers have earned more than 80 awards and top honors over the past year from a variety of the most prestigious industry organizations, including the Overseas Press Club  (OPC), National Professional Photographers Association (NPPA), Pictures of the Year International and World Press Photo. More than 30 editorial photographers received awards in a broad range of categories – spot news, domestic and international news, nature and environment, sports feature and action, portraiture as well as a new category, multimedia.  

To honor the work of its photographers, Getty Images has developed an on-going series of podcasts featuring interviews with some of its award-winners sharing their experiences behind their imagery.

Thriving Archives Launches Footage Buyer Survey

Survey to provide insight into footage buyer preferences and help footage companies better serve their customers. Participants to receive discount footage coupons from major footage suppliers.

San Francisco, CA, Apr. 28, 2008. Thriving Archives is pleased to announce the launch of the Footage Buyer Survey - Non-Fiction USA, an independent market research study examining the things that matter most to footage buyers.

The Footage Buyer Survey is open to documentary filmmakers, producers of non-fiction television programming, footage researchers and other members of the non-fiction film & video production community in the United States who have licensed or obtained footage within the last three years.

The Francis Frith Collection launches new website

Teffont, UK, Apr. 25, 2008. How often do you look at old photographs and wonder about the people seen in them? So many historical images show nameless people, captured for a moment in time before they moved out of frame and back into their lives.

Now you can find out a little more about some of the faces from the past on the new photo library website of The Francis Frith Collection.

The well-known Collection contains some 365,000 fine-quality vintage images, taken by the company photographers between 1860 and 1970, of nearly 7,000 cities, towns and villages across Britain.

The photographs have been used to illustrate over 800 local history books, and the general public have been invited to ‘Share Your Memories’ online via the main website of the company.

Northfoto Signs Agreement With Jupiterimages

Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 27, 2008. Northfoto www.northfoto.com, Central and Southeastern Europe’s leading distributor of visual content, announces that it has signed an agreement with Jupiterimages to represent three of its paid subscription services.

The agreement allows Northfoto to market and license Clipart.com, Comstock Complete and Jupiter Images Unlimited to editorial and creative clients in Hungary and Romania. “This is another ground-breaking move for Northfoto,” said Mark Milstein, the company’s founder and managing director. “Jupiter’s paid subscription models will now give Northfoto access to a whole new, until now not serviceable segment of the market. I am speaking specifically about the budget-conscious editorial and creative client who in past years gravitated  to microstock, but now have the chance to raise their standards by subscribing to three quality Jupiter products.”

New Construction Photography Website

Revamped website provides the edge

London, UK, Apr. 24, 2008. Construction Photography is proud to announce the launch of a new website, boasting a range of new features and the latest in customer enhancements. After months of hard work in the development stages followed by rigorous testing and fine tuning, their new website is ready to give customers a better on-line shopping experience. Constructionphotography.com was taken down over the weekend of 29th and 30th March for the new website to be updated, and is now fully functional.

New features include: new lightbox 'drag and drop' functionality (pictured below), two-speed lightbox scrolling, hover-over image previews, RF CD Store, ‘My Past Searches’ feature, improved search functionality, new contributors’ information and a whole new look. The back end admin features a slick, fast and comprehensive workflow.

Corbis Takes its Motion Collection to New Heights

Company Begins Offering New Footage from Serac Adventure Films

Seattle, WA, Apr. 24, 2008. Corbis, a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, today announced that the company is adding extensive High Definition (HD) footage from Serac Adventure Films, an award-winning production company specializing in high-quality expedition films.

The new collection from Serac Adventure Films includes some of the best Mount Everest footage available, including the first HD video on the summit as well as stunning images from the entire climb including Kathmandu and the Trek to Base Camp. There are also clips of unforgettable scenes from the documentary “Farther Than the Eye Can See," an award-winning intimate look inside blind climber Erik Weihenmayer’s historic ascent as well as four other remarkable ‘firsts’ on Mount Everest.

Getty Images “Travels to the Edge” Through Partnership with Art Wolfe

HD Footage from the Award-Winning Series Available Exclusively From Getty Images  

Seattle, WA, Apr. 23, 2008. Getty Images (NYSE:GYI), the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, today announced that it is the exclusive distributor of high-definition footage from the American Public Television series “Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge.” The award-winning program follows internationally acclaimed photographer Art Wolfe as he journeys to remote corners of the globe to capture images of nature and the cultures and creatures that make our world so unique.  

Corbis Appoints Barry Allen As New Chief Financial Officer

Veteran CFO Barry Allen Brings Rich Financial Management Experience in the e-Business Sector

London, Apr. 22, 2008. Corbis, a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, today announced that Barry Allen has been appointed as the company's Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Allen will oversee the financial management for Corbis and be a member of the Executive Team based in the company’s Seattle headquarters.

Allen has more than 25 years of experience in diverse senior executive leadership roles in the Internet, enterprise technology and real estate sectors. He is widely recognized for his strong track record of leading financial operations for companies in dynamic market environments and helping to drive sustainable long-term growth.

Jupiterimages launches new value-priced subscription service ClipartConnection

... featuring clipart images, web graphics and illustrations

New York, NY, Apr. 22, 2008. Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM) today announced the launch of ClipartConnection.com (www.clipartconnection.com), a new subscription service that provides access to a library of over 1 million clipart images, Web graphics and illustrations.

Subscriptions are available for one week, one month and one year, and allow subscribers to download up to 250 images per day with a weekly subscription starting at only $4.95. ClipartConnection.com subscribers can use the extensive library for presentations, brochures, scrapbooking, business and personal Web sites, school and community projects and many other purposes.