Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Shutterstock Footage Surpasses 100K Clips

Shutterstock Footage Continues Library Expansion, Surpasses 100,000 Royalty-Free Video Clips - The rapid growth has company poised to capitalize on the global surge in video use

New York, March 25, 2009. Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock image agency, just announced that Shutterstock Footage has added its 100,000th clip to its rapidly expanding online library of high quality royalty-free stock footage. Shutterstock was the first company to offer affordable, royalty-free stock video clips by subscription when it launched Shutterstock Footage in 2006.

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iStockphoto Adds 30,000 Royalty-Free and Single-Production Audio Tracks

... to Become One-Stop Destination for User-Generated Stock Images, Videos and Sounds - World's Stock Imagery and Video Sales Leader Offers Industry's Easiest Way to Purchase all Types of Multimedia Under One Account

Austin, TX, SXSW Booth 309/Calgary, Alberta, March 18, 2009. iStockphoto, the world's leading stock multimedia destination, announced its new and diverse audio collection today at the SXSW Music Festival.

iStock's Standard Audio collection includes over 11,000 royalty-free, user-generated sound effects and music tracks. iStock also debuted a new Pump Audio collection of over 18,000 single-production music tracks.

The Flickr Collection Debuts on gettyimages.com

Getty Images and Flickr launch first-of-its-kind creative imagery collection

Seattle, WA & San Francisco, CA, March 11, 2009. Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr, a Yahoo! Inc. service and one of the world's largest photo sharing communities, today announced the launch of the Flickr Collection, a creative imagery collection now available exclusively on gettyimages.com for commercial licensing. With the debut of this first-of-its-kind collection, customers can easily access and license the inspirational and unexpected photographs for which the Flickr community is known.

Cutcaster offers Corporate Accounts and Cutcaster Credit packages

World’s First User-Generated Source of Images and Vectors Offers Most Flexible Payment and Licensing Options.

San Francisco March 11th, 2009. Cutcaster, the world’s first untapped source user generated images and vectors that can be securely licensed through it’s dynamic marketplace, announced the release of two new ways to purchase photos and vector illustrations. Cutcaster Corporate Accounts and Cutcaster Credits will empower buyers, reward them with deep discounts and make licensing royalty free images and vectors organized and cost effective. These new payment options are in addition to the micropayment pay-as-you-go purchasing system and content bidding model that Cutcaster currently uses

Shutterstock Extends All Footage Subscriptions from 30 Days to Full Year Without Raising Prices

Shutterstock also debuts affordable low resolution video subscriptions - ideal for adding high-impact, compelling visuals to online and interactive projects

New York, NY, March 09, 2009. Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based stock image agency, announced today that as a benefit to stock video customers, it is extending all Shutterstock Footage subscription terms from 30 days to a full year at no additional cost. Now creative professionals subscribing to Shutterstock Footage have the flexibility to download royalty-free clips anytime they need them over a one-year period.

"We know that many creative professionals, especially those working in the film, video and TV industry, are looking for innovative ways to cut costs while maintaining top quality," said Jon Oringer, founder and CEO of Shutterstock.

One Year of ClipDealer.com – the rapidly expanding Online Marketplace for Royalty-Free Footage Clips

Munich, March 04, 2009. ClipDealer is looking back on a successful first year of business. The company has grown from nothing to become the largest German online marketplace for royalty-free video footage clips in the mid-range price sector.

ClipDealers’s special quality is that the marketplace offers a fixed pricing system and uploads clips and assigns key words to them free of charge for its top sellers. Consequently, production companies, multi-media and advertising agencies are already flocking in large numbers to avail themselves of ClipDealer’s growing portfolio.

AudioMicro to represent “Family Guy” composer Ron Jones; library surpasses 50,000 tracks

AudioMicro.com to represent over 170 original scores by “Family Guy” composer Ron Jones

Los Angeles, CA, March 03, 2009. AudioMicro.com announces the addition of over 170 original scores by “Family Guy” composer Ron Jones, as the online music and sound effects library surpasses the 50,000 track milestone.

The addition of Ron Jones’ collection permits the popular composer’s work to be available for use in everyday video projects from YouTube movies to short films, all at affordable licensing fees as little as $1 per minute. Central to the deal is Mr. Jones’ belief in the advancement of music placement opportunities for composers through open-minded, crowd-sourced collaboration - the underlying principles of the “micro stock” licensing model.

ImageSpan Announces Radical Innovation - Ties Content Search Results Directly to Payment/Licensing

ImageSpan Platform Delivers a First - One-Click Buying of Digital Content via a Search Result

Sausalito, CA, March 03, 2009. ImageSpan Inc., today introduced LicenseStream Creator 2.0, a new version of its market-leading licensing automation platform that opens content for business with game-changing innovations to accelerate massive online distribution and increase revenues. With LicenseStream 2.0, content creators of all types – from individual creators to enterprises – now gain the ability to publish content directly to the Web and global search engines, enabling anyone in the world to find their search-optimized content and pay for it with a mouse click.

Dreamstime Exceeds 5 Million Images, Enhances Search Engine

Upped to 1.3 million Users - Features High-Tech Enhancements

Nashville, TN, March 02, 2009. Dreamstime.com, one of the world's premier stock photography agencies, is pleased to introduce its newest search engine advancements to deliver the picture perfect every time.

Complimenting the Dreamstime.com DreamFinder™(an unlimited, multi-tiered, in-depth search that is most unique to the stock agencies market featuring refined and extended search options as they pertain to keywords, price, content, model released files, resolution, photos/illustrations, color/monochrome, orientation and more), Dreamstime's custom search engine has become second-to-none in "relevancy."