Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Shutterstock's Image Library Hits 6 Million

Major Milestone for the World's Largest Subscription-Based Stock Photo Agency

New York, February 26, 2009. Shutterstock's library of premium stock images continues its explosive growth while maintaining the highest quality standards in the online stock photo marketplace Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, just reached another milestone as it added the 6 millionth image to its rapidly growing library of premium royalty-free stock images.

In less than four months, Shutterstock has added over one million images, reinforcing its status as the fastest growing site for high quality, royalty-free images.

GumGum adds b5media

One of the largest online publishing networks added to GumGum´s growing family of sites that license content via usage-based licensing models.

Santa Monica, CA/Toronto, Ontario, Feb. 23, 2009. GumGum, an analytics and monetization platform for content online, announced today that it has partnered with b5media, a global new media network, to provide hundreds of b5media editors access to content from GumGum's list of premium content providers. The partnership is further demonstration of the increased adoption of usage-based licensing models as well as the advantages of GumGum's licensing product.

Jupitermedia Announces Completion of Sale of Jupiterimages to Getty Images

Darien, CT, Feb. 23, 2009. Jupitermedia Corporation (NASDAQ: JUPM) announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of Jupiterimages Corporation ("Jupiterimages"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jupitermedia, to Getty Images, Inc. ("Getty Images") for $96 million in cash, subject to certain post-closing adjustments (the "Sale").

Veer launches new low-priced image resource, Veer Marketplace

Calgary, Feb. 23, 2009. Veer® (www.veer.com), a producer and provider of visual elements and design-related products, today launched Veer Marketplace, a new low-priced image resource on veer.com.

With the addition of Veer Marketplace, Veer becomes the first major provider to offer both user-generated images (“microstock”), and traditional professional stock images on one web site. Veer customers are now able to license rights-managed, premium royalty-free, and low-priced royalty-free photography in one place.

Photolibrary to Represent Garden Photo World Stock Images

Seattle, WA, February 18, 2009. The Seattle, Washington based garden stock photo library, Garden Photo World, has signed a non-exclusive contract with leading international stock photo distributor, Photolibrary, for worldwide distribution of a number of its key image collections.

Garden Photo World specializes in images of gardens, flowers and plants, including many from North America with a large and growing collection from the Pacific Northwest

Blend Images Launches Rights-Managed Image Collection

Las Vegas, NV, Feb. 19, 2009. Blend Images, the world’s leading multiethnic stock photography agency, announced today it has launched a new rights-managed image collection, strengthening their commercial offering at blendimages.com.

The Blend Images rights-managed collection launches with 3,000 images, featuring powerful photos from the industry’s top photographers. The collection focuses on multiethnic lifestyle and business imagery with conceptual, highly stylized, contemporary images that offer high production value and premium quality. New images will continue to be released each month.

Image Source seeks royalty free collections for immediate acquisition

London, UK, Feb. 17, 2009. Image Source, the world's leading independent producer of premium royalty free stock photography, is currently actively seeking to purchase large scale royalty free collections from other agencies or directly from photographers.

Image Source’s own collection, currently amounting to around 150,000 images, is primarily focussed around the high-end lifestyle, business and beauty categories, ‘We are on the look out for new collections which complement our main image categories and our premium quality, both in terms of image creativity, high production values and legal hygiene”, says Duncan Grossart, Joint CEO of Image Source, “while we already have our own aggressive production schedule in place for 2009, we are always looking for larger scale acquisitions which can add immediate accretive sales”.

Thought Equity Motion Now Responsible For All National Geographic Stock Footage Licensing Worldwide

Expanded Longtime Partnership Makes Thought Equity Motion Sole Stock Footage Seller

Feb. 13, 2009. Thought Equity Motion, the world leader in providing access to high quality film, video and music content announced today that its long term partnership with National Geographic Digital Motion has expanded, making Thought Equity Motion responsible for all National Geographic stock footage licensing worldwide. Now all National Geographic stock footage, including stock footage purchased from the National Geographic Digital Motion website, www.ngdigitalmotion.com, will be managed by Thought Equity Motion.

MuseWorx Partners with iStockphoto to Expand Creative Resources

New York, NY, Feb. 11, 2009. MuseWorx, a global leader and innovator in on-demand marketing automation and brand asset management, today announced that it has partnered with iStockphoto, the world's busiest image and video market, where a royalty-free stock image or video is downloaded every single second. The agreement is a key milestone in MuseWorx's strategy of partnering with leading services and solutions commonly in use by businesses, creatives, and marketing professionals,

"Advertising and marketing projects that our clients are producing can involve hundreds of discrete pieces of material and myriad individual contributors so we welcome the opportunity to offer additional resources through the MuseWorx platform to help them manage their projects," said Kelly Thompson, COO of iStockphoto.

ASP International Enters Into Exclusive Distribution Partnership with Getty Images

Coolangatta, Australia, Feb. 10, 2009. The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) and Getty Images, Inc., the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, today jointly announced that Getty Images will be the exclusive commercial worldwide distribution partner of imagery captured by ASP photographers.

This is the first time the ASP has awarded exclusive access to their exceptional action, lifestyle and travel photography collection of more than 4,000 images. The deal includes exclusive distribution of photography from ASP's 2009 Dream Tour Competition.