Dynamic Flickr Collection Reflects Passion of Worldwide Community of Photography Enthusiasts
New York, Oct. 19, 2011. Getty Images, a leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, and Flickr®, a Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) service and one of the world’s largest photo sharing communities, today announced an exciting milestone for the Flickr Collection [Link to Flickr Select].
Just two years after the debut of this first-of-its-kind collection, the Flickr Collection has grown to 250,000 images, featuring compelling and innovative content from a global community of photography enthusiasts from over 115 countries.
Continue reading "Getty Images Announces Flickr’s 250,000th Image Milestone" »
New Flickr Select Collection Represents the Best of Getty Images' Flickr Artists
New York, July 28, 2011. Getty Images, a leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, today announced the launch of Flickr Select, a distinctive collection of professionally curated imagery representing the best of the highly dynamic Flickr Collection on Getty Images.
Continue reading "Getty Images Announces the Launch of Flickr Select" »
(No real press release, but a notification from Getty Images today; Source of the quotation following, and core message).
It’s hard to believe that it has been over a year since Getty Images partnered with Flickr to launch the groundbreaking Flickr Collection (http://ycorpblog.com/2008/07/08/getty-images-teams-up-with-flickr/). We wanted to provide a quick update on how the collection has grown and some of the exciting new developments in our partnership.
When launching the Flickr Collection, our goal was to choose photos that created a commercially viable collection, while preserving the inspirational and unexpected nature of the images that are so prevalent on Flickr. We’re proud to announce that today the collection has grown to over 60,000 images, many of which have been licensed by Getty Images’ customers from around the world.
Continue reading "The Flickr Collection by Getty Images Announces Call for Artists" »
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.
Continue reading "The Flickr Collection Debuts on gettyimages.com" »