Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Dreamstime Ups Collection of Free Images

Several Thousands Of Free Stock Photos Added In First 24 Hours Of Enhancement

Nashville, TN, Oct. 29, 2009. Serban Enache, CEO of Dreamstime, one of the world’s leading digital image stock photography agencies, announced the company’s initiative to up the number of images made available ABSOLUTELY FREE.

In January 2007, Dreamstime made available an assortment of images under its FREE umbrella. The FREE selection—an original and revolutionary sector that has attracted bargain hunters from around the globe—is a successfully proven concept that has secured Dreamstime’s footprint in the industry as one-stop-photo-shop giant.

Gold Level Photographer Jim DeLillo Cancels iStock Exclusivity, First Stop ... Fotolia

New York, NY, Oct. 20, 2009. Jim DeLillo, a Gold Level contributor (10,000 downloads) has ended his exclusivity agreement with the microstock giant iStock. A New Jersey photographer, DeLillo is ranked 1267 worldwide by http://istockcharts.multimedia.de/ and is credited with over 11,000 downloads. He has uploaded his entire portfolio to Fotolia.

Full artist Exclusivity on iStock means images, video or audio files cannot be sold on other royalty-free sites or businesses, with the exception of Getty Images.

Shutterstock Announces New Plan to Protect Each Image and Footage Purchase

Largest subscription stock image site guarantees its entire library of more than 8.5 million images and 140,000 footage clips

New York, Oct. 20th, 2009. Shutterstock, the world’s largest subscription-based stock photo agency, announced today that it will legally guarantee every file in its vast library by providing up to $10,000 to cover legal costs and direct damages for claims arising from the use of an image or footage clip licensed through Shutterstock.

Dreamstime Debuts New Canvas and Poster Formats for Images

Nashville, TN, Oct. 14, 2009. Dreamstime, one of the world’s leading digital image stock photography agencies, has introduced a new service to deliver decorative display prints right to your door. The ultimate outlet for quality images (in all shapes and sizes, and for any creative purpose), Dreamstime photo-shoppers can now also purchase ready-made prints in poster and canvas format for home or office use.

From the platinum-selling agency that has revolutionized the industry during its five-year history, Dreamstime has elevated its services to offer images from its gallery of more than 6.5 million to enable purchasers to enjoy their photos in wall art form—a finished product ready to showcase.

AudioMicro Launches The Premium Collection - Adds 13,000 Production Music Tracks to its Royalty Free Music Library

The Premium Collection Provides Access to 13,000 Music Tracks Traditionally Available Only to High End Buyers

Los Angeles, Oct. 13, 2009. AudioMicro.com, a crowd-sourced marketplace for royalty-free music and sound effects licensing, announces that its users can now download more than 13,000 new production music tracks from its online library. Consumers and professionals alike now have direct and immediate access to professional quality production music supplied by one of the largest production music libraries in Hollywood. The new offering is dubbed “The Premium Collection” and represents the first time that record label owned material has been made available for synch licensing to small independent video producers in a micro stock format.

PicScout Technology Supports Ubiquitous Online Image Accreditation and Transaction

Offers Industry-Wide Opportunity to Expose Every Licensable Image With Licensor Information at Real-Time Point of Encounter; Every Image Credited With Visible Source and Connected for Legitimate Use and/or Purchase

Silicon Valley, CA, Oct. 07, 2009. PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, today launched a services platform and a new product that enables client image monetization opportunities across the global landscape of the internet. For the first time, users of web-viewed images will be made immediately aware of images’ rightful owners or licensors and afforded an easy connection with them. PicScout is bringing both users and purveyors of images together online and on-the-fly to contract for legitimate image downloads for authorized usage on or offline.

PicScout Unveils Services Platform and Suite of Products to Enable Online Image Transactions for Users and Licensors

PicScout Image IRC™ Services Platform Equips ImageExchange™ to Identify, Credit and Connect for immediate Legitimate Use of Every Image

Silicon Valley, CA, Oct. 07, 2009. PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services and enabler of client image monetization activities, today announced a strategic shift from a single source product company to a services company based upon the PicScout Image IRC. Image IRC serves as a fingerprinting index, metadata registry and API connection platform for agencies and image license holders.

WordPress.com Enables More Than 7.5mm Bloggers Access to Celeb, Sports, News Images via PicApp

San Francisco, CA, Oct. 06, 2009. WordPress.com bloggers searching for real-time photos of Juan Martin Del Potro, Rob Pattinson and Michelle Obama or looking for photos of a sunset in Yosemite Park, the Eiffel Tower, a wild flower, baby laughing, or an urban spa can now use PicApp to add relevant images to their posts. The content partners include, among others, Getty Images, Corbis, Newscom, Zuma Press, Image Source, Jupiterimages and Pacific Coast News.

Automattic, which leads the Open Source WordPress project and runs WordPress.com, announced today that it is enabling PicApp's embed code on its WordPress.com platform, allowing its millions of bloggers access to real time, premium, legal and free images provided by PicApp. WordPress has 7.5 million bloggers, 37 million posts and 1.2 billion page views per month, and is considered one of the most innovative and fastest growing blog platforms.

Fotoglif Expands Royalty-Free Online Image Site With Easy Upload for Photographers, Addition of Stock Photo Catalog

Web Service Gives Bloggers, Social Media Users and Other Online Publishers Access to More Than 3 Million Breaking News, Sports, Celebrity and Stock Images

Toronto, Oct. 05, 2009. Fotoglif today announced new features for its royalty-free online image service and licensing platform, which provides timely, professional-quality photos for use by bloggers, social media fans and other Web authors. Photographers can now add their own images to Fotoglif by using the new image upload feature. They can post photo albums or single images directly to the service for free, creating the opportunity to earn licensing fees from their images.

Fotoglif is also announcing the addition of a creative stock photography section to its site. The new collection starts with some 500,000 creative images from several participating collections.