PantherMedia Midstock images now directly available on the i-picturemaxx network

Munich, June 23, 2008. PantherMedia is further extending their cooperation with picturemaxx. Germany’s first midstock agency is now also offering their royalty free images at a bargained price through Germany’s most successful media marketing platform, i-picturemaxx.

With the corporation of the stock agency and photo community PantherMedia GmbH and picturemaxx AG, over 500,000 selected royalty free images of the PantherMedia archive, commercial as well as editorial, are now being offered through the media marketing platform, i-picturemaxx (former APIS network). So far those images could only be found on the picturemaxx.net web portal.

Unique to PantherMedia are the agency’s bargained prices: the costs for images in web resolution start out at 4,90 €. Licences for high resolution images can already be purchased for as low as 29,90 €.

The platform i-picturemaxx aggregates the portfolios of over 250 stock photo agencies, media portals and archives, making them available to a user community of several thousand editors and creative professionals from over 500 magazine and newspaper publishers, companies and advertising agencies in the domestic market and abroad.

„In cooperating with Germany’s most successful media marketing platform we have won a new strong affiliate, with respect to particularly the editorial market“, explains Robert Walters, Managing Director of PantherMedia.

„The image market changes rapidly and our i-picturemaxx platform reflects the needs of this market. Of course, this also includes new licence and price models like those of PantherMedia. With this segment, we will be able to approach other and new groups of photo buyers“, says Bernd Czichon, CEO of the picturemaxx company.

Registered users can download high-resolution photos over i-picturemaxx and will then be taken care of by PantherMedia. Personal service, flexible invoicing and a constantly growing archive of more than 1,000 new images per day are the assets of PantherMedia’s archives on i-picturemaxx.

 

About PantherMedia

Panthermedia.net is an online marketplace for royalty-free photography. Buyers and sellers of royalty-free images meet on one common platform. This platform is divided into a photo community for photographers and a stock agency for art buyers. In the photo community, photographers upload their images to licence these images in the stock agency. After a legal and quality check by PantherMedia, art buyers can search, licence and instantly download the images.

About picturemax

picturemaxx™ AG is the sole operator of the independent, international media marketing platform i-picturemaxx™ (formerly the APIS™ network), which aggregates the portfolios of over 250 photo agencies, media portals and archives, making them available to a user community of several thousand editors and creative professionals from over 500 magazine and newspaper publishers, companies and advertising agencies in the domestic market and abroad.

As the leading system provider in the photo and media industry with over 25 years of specialist expertise, picturemaxx develops and provides software and database solutions for marketing, managing and archiving digital content, as well as for the targeted procurement of images and related media.