Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Getty Images Announces Flickr’s 250,000th Image Milestone

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.

 

Getty Images Announces the Launch of Flickr Select

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.

The Flickr Collection by Getty Images Announces Call for Artists

(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.

Snapixel: Flickr Meets iStockphoto

Snapixel combines Flickr and iStockphoto to make it easy to sell and share photos

San Francisco, CA, June 10, 2009. Say goodbye to the old photography stock houses and say hello to Snapixel.com. Photographers and enthusiasts can get paid a fair price for what they already love to do and stock users have a fresh new resource to fulfill their creative needs.

Created by three photographers who were fed up with the current photo stock offerings, Snapixel offers photographers more than the traditional stock photography house. How much more? Well to start with, compared to the 20% photographers get from the sale of their photos from most other stock houses, Snapixel pays 60% to the photographer. That’s a huge difference.

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.

Library and Archives Canada Brings Content to Flickr and YouTube

Ontario, Canada, Oct. 30, 2008. Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce that in anticipation of the 2008 Irish Studies Symposium, that will be presented on November 3 and 4, 2008, a selection of digital images related to Irish-Canadian documentary heritage are now available on Flickr.com, a popular photo-sharing community.

As well, a selection of video presentations from the upcoming Symposium will be added to YouTube.com in November 2008.

Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery

New Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com to Provide Customers Even More Authentic, Diverse and Regionally Relevant Imagery

Seattle, WA & San Francisco, CA, July 08, 2008. Getty Images, the world´s leading creator and distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr™, a division of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and one of the world's largest photo sharing communities, today announce a collaboration that unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty Images' imagery collections, photographic expertise and unrivalled experience in licensing digital media.

The exclusive partnership allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members to participate in a Flickr branded collection on www.gettyimages.com that will be available for licensing to Getty Images´ creative, commercial and editorial customers in the coming months.

Picsquare Announces New Service for Flickr Users

Direct photo prints and photo products of Flickr photos with Picsquare

Bangalore, India*. Picsquare.com, India's leading online photo print and personalized photo gift printing website has seamlessly integrated itself with Flickr.com in an attempt to take its services a step forward and provide Flickr users the best of printing technology and service.

Easy Uploads from Flickr to 123RF

Houston, TX, April 24, 2007. If you are a Flickr member, you would have every reason to cheer. Royalty-free stock photo library 123RF is bringing stock photography to another level with the introduction of its Flickr API (Application Programming Interface) integration. Flickr is an online photo management and sharing community that lets users store, organize, share and create personalized premiums to family and friends.

Imagekind.com Enables Online Framed Art and Photo Sales for Flickr Community

Seattle, WA, April 19, 2007. Imagekind.com(TM), the world's fastest-growing online community for creating, buying, and selling physical artwork from digital files, today announced a partnership with Flickr(TM), one of the world's largest online photo sharing communities, to create commercial framing services for Flickr members using the Flickr API. Flickr members can now order affordable framed prints of their digital images on the widest variety of fine art papers and canvases, in a matter of seconds.