Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Getty Images Acquires PicScout

Acquisition will Bring Leading Image Identification Technology to More Customers around the World

Seattle, WA, April 27, 2011. Getty Images, a leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, today announced that it has acquired PicScout, a leader in identifying image use, metadata and licensing information on the web.

ImageSpan and Digimarc Partner to Deliver Complete Solution to Manage, Monitor and Monetize Valuable Image Assets

The Combined Solution Enables Stock Photography Agencies, Media Companies, and Museums and Archives to Communicate Copyright Ownership, Automatically Track Images Online and Make More Money from New and Existing Image Assets

Monterey, CA, Nov. 11, 2009. ImageSpan Inc., creator of the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, and Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), a leading innovator and technology provider that gives persistent digital identities to all forms of media content, today announced that they have partnered to deliver a complete solution to manage, monitor and monetize valuable image assets. ImageSpan and Digimarc made the announcement at the 6Sight® Future of Imaging conference in Monterey, Calif.

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.

ImageSpan and PicScout Team to Deliver Best-in-Class Image Licensing and Tracking Solutions

Joint ImageSpan-PicScout Service Allows LicenseStream Subscribers to Immediately Monetize and Gain Incremental Value from Content Distributed across the Web

San Francisco, CA, April 02, 2009. ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, and PicScout, a market-leading image copyright service provider to the digital content industry, today announced that they are partnering to deliver a best-in-class image licensing and tracking service to help LicenseStream subscribers immediately monetize content found by PicScout and obtain more value from that content as it gets published across the Web. The announcement was made at the Web 2.0 Expo

LTU Presents Portfolio of Photo Management Solutions at International PACA Conference

Washington, DC, and New York, NY, Oct. 24, 2008. LTU technologies, the global leader in multimedia content control and search solutions, announced today its attendance at the 13th Annual Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) International Conference being held October 24 - 26, 2008 in New York City.

LTU will be at the show to demonstrate its comprehensive image content control and search tools that enable photobanks to search, manage and protect their large databases of photographs or videos and their associated copyrights.

Eyealike Unveils the First Image and Video Recognition Ad Platform

...  to Extend the Power of Contextual Advertising to Rich Media - Combination of facial and physical attribute recognition allows dating websites to offer new ways for singles to factor in attraction to find more relevant matches

Seattle, WA, Oct. 13, 2008. Eyealike, a visual-based search innovator, today announced Eyealike VisualAd, the world’s first image and video-based contextual advertising platform for social networks and rich media websites. With a unique ability to recognize facial features, skin color, hair, gender and age, as well as objects like logos or product images, Eyealike VisualAd can serve highly targeted ads based on the context of online images and videos.

Idée's PixID Image Monitoring Service Adopted by World's Leading Editorial Photo Agencies

Idée's PixID service monitors over 25 million client editorial images

Toronto, CA, July 24, 2008. Idée Inc. today announced that The European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), Matrix Photos, Capital Pictures and Feature Flash have selected PixID to track their photographs in print publications worldwide. Since its launch in 2007, Idée's PixID image monitoring service has been adopted by the world's leading news, celebrity and entertainment photo agencies. Idée monitors thousands of publications for over 25 million client editorial images and performs up to 55 trillion image comparisons each month.

b5media Teams Up With PicScout´s PicApp

Members of leading blog network using new PicApp image platform for sourcing, illustrating and enhancing photos, artwork; bloggers to provide feedback for future development

San Francisco & Toronto, May 30, 2008. PicScout has begun working with b5media, a global new media network featuring a diverse range of more than 350 blogs, to use the PicApp platform of premium, licensed images and photos for enhancing news and creative content across a select group of blogs. PicApp provides licensed images from a broad group of premiere news and stock photo agencies, giving bloggers and other online publishers legal access to millions of images, while addressing content owners’ usage tracking and copyright concerns.