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News Brief:

PhotoAlto Forms Assignment Division

By Julia Dudnik Stern   Friday May 16, 2008

Paris-based PhotoAlto has hired Matthew Goodrich, formerly of Stockland Martel and Getty Images, to launch and manage an assignment-photography division. As vice president of business development, Goodrich will work out of PhotoAlto’s New York office.


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Art Life Adds 7 Collections, Plans New Launch

By Julia Dudnik Stern   Friday May 16, 2008

Florida’s Art Life Images has expanded its offering with seven collections. The distributor now represents rights-managed images from All Canada Photo, France’s Spacephotos and Mexico’s TMC Images, as well as royalty-free stock by Built, Eyecandy, Hunt Stock and Simply North. Art Life also plans to launch its own iTravelstock brand of active-travel photography.


News Brief:

Kuvaporssi Joins THP

By Julia Dudnik Stern   Friday May 16, 2008

Kuvapörssi is the second Finnish stock-image agency to join age fotostock’s Technological Hosting Platform. THP hosts and administers stock-licensing operations of over 50 image distributors in different countries. In addition to outsourcing technical functions, Kuvapörssi also added some 2 million THP-hosted images to its local offering.


News Story:

Fotolia Presents Reseller API at CEPIC Congress

By Julia Dudnik Stern   Friday May 16, 2008

Fotolia’s new Reseller API targets traditional image agencies eager to get a piece of the microstock pie.


News Story:

Alamy Reports 18% Rise in Q1

By Jim Pickerell   Friday May 16, 2008

Alamy had gross sales in Q1 2008 of $8,097,000, up 18% from Q1 2007. 56% of the revenue for the quarter came from images submitted by photographers and 44% from agencies.


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