Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Fotolia Announces Stock Video Collection

Leading source for legal, low-cost imagery announces launch of microstock video collection

New York, NY, April 28, 2009. Today, Fotolia, one of the world's leading sources for legal, low-cost imagery announced the launch of its microstock video collection, which will supplement its current library of more than five million images and illustrations with a collection of more than 10,000 royalty-free video clips at microstock prices.

Snapixel Opens Stock Photography For Next Generation of Photographers

Snapixel Launches Openstock™ Ready-to-License System to Sell Photos

San Francisco, CA, April 28, 2009. Snapixel (www.snapixel.com), a new photography site that combines elements of the photo sharing site Flickr and the popular stock photography site iStockphoto, announces Openstock™, an innovative system that provides photographers with an easy-to-market solution to sell photos.

"The Snapixel model extends selling power to all levels of photographers. While not every image belongs in a stock photography marketplace, our ultimate goal is to widen the creative spectrum of traditional stock photography, without decreasing the value." said Ivan Wong, COO and Co-founder of Snapixel.

PicScout applauds Google for its new Similar Images Search

[This isn´t a real press release from PicScout, but a marketing gig from their blog, distributed today by their marketing department]

Herzeliya/San Francisco, Apr. 26, 2009. What a thrill it is to see Google's recent announcement of its new "similar image" search! One couldn't ask for better publicity. Free, too! First, it further validates the huge interest people have in finding and using images online, either for personal or business uses. When people search for images, they are most likely looking to use them for some purpose that very well may require licensing. If Google is helping people do that faster, all the better!

Jon Arnold Images and John Warburton-Lee announce the creation of AWL Images

Whitchurch/Shropshire, UK, April 23, 2009. We are delighted to announce the launch of www.awl-images.com, an exciting new website offering the very best of travel imagery with over 70,000 tightly edited images covering 200 countries worldwide.

AWL Images Limited is a joint venture that brings together the specialist travel collections of John Warburton-Lee Photography and Jon Arnold Images to create a truly global travel collection.

Portray Limited Acquires Action Plus

London, Apr. 22, 2009. Action Plus, as 30-year old sports image library, based in London, has been acquired by Portray Limited, a company wholly owned by industry veteran Stephen Hearn. For 30 years, Action Plus was owned and operated by Richard Francis, a well known and sought after car and motorbike event photographer.

The library, mostly editorial with news/feature images deep in over 300 different sporting elements, now extends to over 1.3 million images and has over 20 worldwide agencies representing the content.

imense launch Annotator, the first semi automatic keywording tool

Cambridge, April 20, 2009. With more sales channels available for photographers, and more of those channels expecting metadata and keywords to be supplied with image files, photographers are becoming bogged down in keywording, meaning less time for doing what they do best, creating images.

imense are delighted to announce the launch of Annotator, a simple to use, cost effective, semi-automated keywording tool designed to dramatically reduce the time it takes for photographers to keyword their images by up to 4 times, whilst at the same time providing more commercially relevant keywords.

Shutterstock Sponsors Free Arts NYC

Shutterstock employees volunteer to bring a day of art to underprivileged children in New York City

New York, NY, April 17, 2009. Shutterstock, the world's largest subscription-based online stock photo agency, is sponsoring Free Arts NYC, a New York based charity organization that delivers creative art programs to underprivileged children throughout the city.

In addition to the sponsorship, Shutterstock employees donated a day to create art and mentor low income, homeless, abused and neglected children at the "Shutterstock Free Arts Day" on Saturday, April 4th. More than 75 children attended the event held at the Grand Street Settlement, Beacon Center.

National Geographic Digital Media Unveils New Immersive Web 2.0 Photography Application - "Infinite Photograph"

New app offers unprecedented interaction with shared online photos; Launching with shots of natural world dubbed 'As Seen on Earth'

Washington, DC, April 15, 2009. National Geographic Digital Media (NGDM) today launches Infinite Photograph, a cutting-edge Web 2.0 photography mosaic application that will allow users to interact with shared online photographs by clicking on color patterns to create an infinite array of stunning mosaics in a variety of themes.

Gearing up for Earth Day, the first Infinite Photograph theme debuts April 15 at www.ngm.com/infinite, featuring mosaics created from user-submitted photos of the natural world as part of National Geographic's My Shot "As Seen on Earth" hub, found at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/myshot/infinite-photograph/earth.

Dreamstime Introduces New Flash Browser Feature

New Flash Browser Feature To Be Showcased at 2009 Picturehouse This Week

Nashville, TN, April 15, 2009. Dreamstime.com, one of the world's premier community-based stock photography agencies, is pleased to introduce its newest search engine advancement-the Flash Browser.

To improve the visual experience, Dreamstime has installed a new Flash Browser to illustrate a larger sized and enhanced visual representation of the DreamFinder™ search results. Photo buyers can now experience image previews in a full, crystal clear screen display

Alaska Stock Image Stamps Out Global Warming

Anchorage, AK, April 09, 2009. Alaska Stock Images, a very well established Rights Managed brand for specialist stock imagery, announced that a polar bear image it represents will be used by Canada Post as part of an international postal awareness campaign on the effects of global warming. The image of the lone polar bear swimming in melting sea ice in Bellot Strait near Resolute Bay, Alaska was created by Alaska Stock photographer Amanda Byrd.

“I am truly honored that my image of the polar bear has been chosen to be part of Canada Post's commitment of global warming awareness, and I am excited that this stamp will be viewed in some 30 other countries,” remarked Amanda.