Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

AudioMicro Adds The Hollywood Edge Collection to its Online Stock Music and Sound Effects Library

Licensing Deal Provides Instant Access to 55,000 Professional Quality Sound Effects

Los Angeles, July 28, 2009. AudioMicro.com, a crowd-sourced marketplace for royalty-free music and sound effects licensing, announces that its users can now download more than 55,000 sound effects from The Hollywood Edge, the world’s most widely used sound effects library. Consumers and professionals alike now have direct and immediate access to professional quality sound effects created by the Academy Award-winning sound studio Soundelux, whose credits include such films as Kill Bill, Braveheart and Fast and Furious. The Hollywood Edge and Soundelux are part of the CSS Studios group of companies.

New Fotoglif Service Delivers Royalty-Free Images for Bloggers, Social Media Users and Web Publishers

Business Model Built on Revenue Sharing for Photographers, Image Users and Advertisers; Company Also Secures Capital from Sun Wah Hi-Tech Group

Toronto, July 08, 2009. Fotoglif today launched a new service that makes it easy for bloggers, social media fans and other Web publishers to add high-quality, royalty-free and timely images to jazz up their written content.

The beta version of the Fotoglif image-sharing community and licensing platform is available now at www.Fotoglif.com. The site features more than 3 million images, with thousands of new ones from professional photographers and respected news agencies added each day from global breaking news, entertainment and sports stories. Traditional stock photos and images of everyday life will be added over time

Dreamstime challenges community with new feature - Stock Rank

New Flash-Interactive Feature Announced Simultaneously With 6 Million Image Benchmark

Nashville, TN, July 01, 2009. Dreamstime.com, a global photo community and worldwide leader in the stock photography industry has introduced Stock Rank - a new “photo-review tool” to enable members to test their photo IQ in comparing and ranking images.

The new imaginative flash-interactive tool pairs two images on the screen and challenges the contestant to select the best photo - the photo most worthy of purchase or download - based on concept, subject, aesthetics, lighting, composition, etc. This feature was initially established as a quality assurance system utilized primarily by the agency's editors as part of their training to review the commercial aspects of stock submissions.