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PRESS RELEASES 17
April 20, 2006
iStockphoto Opens Library of 700,000 Images to HP Customers
iStockphoto® has announced it will provide access to a growing library of more than 700,000 high-quality stock photographs, starting at just $1 each, for HP customers. iStockphoto's vast online image library will be available directly from the HP In-House Marketing Portal (www. hp.com/go/inhouse), an online resource that provides small and medium businesses (SMBs) with tools to create marketing materials internally.
iStockphoto's micro-payment system and robust search functionality make it the perfect design solution for small companies in a competitive marketplace. iStockphoto inspects, approves and uploads around 12,000 fresh images per week to its easy-to-use online library. Small and medium business owners will love exclusive search features such as CopySpaceTM, which allows them to indicate exactly where they need to insert text or branding on an image. HP customers can even enlist the power of the iStockphoto community with BuyRequestTM, where artists create custom work on demand.
"HP's leadership in imaging and printing makes it the perfect fit for the iStockphoto community," said Bruce Livingstone, founder and CEO of iStockphoto. "We look forward to providing innovative and imaginative imagery to HP's SMB customers, giving them the same competitive edge in the creation of marketing campaigns that many of our customers have realized."
"iStockphoto provides outstanding imagery for a great price," said Vince Ferraro, vice president of marketing, LaserJet Business, HP. "By using iStockphoto's extensive online image library combined with HP's industry-leading color printers, small businesses can now develop professional-quality marketing and presentation materials at a fraction of the traditional time and cost."
NewsCom Offers New Subscription Service
NewsCom now offers a subscription service for royalty-free images from three of the industry's foremost agencies.
By subscribing to this new service, NewsCom customers have access to more than 300,000 royalty-free photographs provided by Jupiterimages, SuperStock and Index Stock.
The NewsCom Royalty-free Collection features a great breadth of images to meet the needs of publishers around the globe. Photographs cover themes including travel, geography, nature, food and beverage, business, technology, sports, entertainment, health, holidays, lifestyle, news and historic events.
"We are very pleased to add this subscription service to our menu of content products," said NewsCom General Manager Bill Creighton. "The vast selection of visual content offered by Jupiterimages, SuperStock and Index Stock can meet any publisher's creative or editorial needs."
Subscriptions to the NewsCom RF Collection are priced from $1,800 annually for an enterprise license. An additional one-time set-up fee is determined by a user's circulation and location.
"NewsCom is committed to providing our customers with useful, relevant content at competitive prices," Creighton said. "We believe our subscribers will enjoy the convenience of 'one-stop shopping' for creative, royalty-free images."
KeenImages Launches New Royalty-free Stock Photography Website
Keen Images has announced the availability of the new Keen Images Stock Photography, a new stock photography web service that offers designers, editors and publishers a wide variety of for high-quality, royalty-free images for full commercial or editorial use.
The new (www.keenimages.com) website offers several enhancements over a traditional stock photo site. Keen Images' customers can browse images by categories, use the flexible search engine that allows limiting images by color, preview the images at up to 100% magnification with the interactive image zoom tool, use the "More Like This" tool, and pay for images without having to create an account with the site.
Keen Images allows photo buyers getting full commercial or editorial license for all images they purchase. The Keen Images license does not have restrictions for high volume distribution, posters, calendars or using images for products for sale. This flexibility makes the full license a desirable choice for many photo buyers.
Artzooks Extends Reward Incentive Program
Artzooks.com (www.artzooks.com) has announced an extension of their popular 'Artzooks Reward Points' program.
"Artzooks Reward Points give value-conscious buyers of stock imagery a tangible and important means of realizing significant savings for every purchase they make" says Grant Kimmons, President and CEO, "Savings come back to Artzooks' customers in the form of reward points that can be redeemed for a wide variety of exciting products and gift certificates from leading online merchants - including Artzooks.com!"
Using online tools, Artzooks' customers can easily monitor and redeem their points at their leisure and as frequently as they like. The program has proven to be equally popular with corporate buyers and casual stock image users alike, and is winning raves for its elegance, simplicity and broad appeal.
According to Mr. Kimmons, Artzooks Reward Points are but one example of the extended commitment that Artzooks is making to the creative community, "Even without these aggressive incentives, Artzooks' customers have come to appreciate the personal service, ever expanding inventory of high quality images, and convenience of being able to consolidate all of their image purchases on a single, secure site."
Artzooks.com is home to over 1,000,000 stock images and features many of the world's most popular royalty free brands, including Corbis, Getty Images, Photodisc, Digital Vision, Stockbyte, Comstock, Brand X Images and more. Customers can purchase images one at a time or in convenient disc-based collections.
OnRequest Images Introduces New Corporate Identity
OnRequest Images has launched a fresh, new corporate identity that personifies the company's commitment to being a total solution for OnBrand custom photography. The new logo, combining a modern "ON" mark with the OnRequest Images name, demonstrates the company's intense focus on providing OnBrand photography, on time, and on budget to their impressive roster of brand, marketing, and creative clients. To communicate its focus on leveraging custom imagery to build stronger brands, OnRequest Images also introduced a new tagline: "Custom Images. Stronger Brands."
"This new identity is clean, modern, and symbolizes OnRequest Images' strategic commitment to companies who want to identify and incorporate fresh, custom imagery into their own brand framework," said David Norris, chairman and CEO of OnRequest Images. "Forward looking corporations are taking a careful look at the imagery they use to visually express their brand and our goal is to make the OnRequest Images identity synonymous with stunning, OnBrand imagery. This refresh represents an important step in that direction."
In addition, OnRequest Images launched a new, refreshed website, that has been designed to help marketers discover new ways to support their brands with custom imagery. The newly re-designed site (www.onrequestimages.com)demonstrates to brand, marketing, and creative leaders how to strengthen their brands with custom imagery, more easily manage and distribute image assets, reduce brand photography costs, and reduce corporate liability on image licenses. The site also provides visitors with access to information on the company's enhanced product and service offerings:
OnRequest Custom Library™ -- OnRequest Custom Libraries enable brand and marketing leaders to build their brand by creating an all-original collection of fresh, OnBrand images to fully support corporate advertising and marketing needs with a simplified two-year unlimited use licensing model.
OnRequest Custom Stock™ -- OnRequest Custom Stock images are created to customer specifications by leading photographers at rights-managed stock prices, bringing fresh images to the customer in a matter of days.
OnRequest Custom Assignment™ -- OnRequest Custom Assignment services delivers corporate marketing teams and creative agencies the advantages of working with OnRequest Images' photographer network without any of the usual production hassles associated with traditional assignment photography.
OnRequest Image Manager™ -- OnRequest Image Manager is a comprehensive, web-based solution for creating, storing, managing, and distributing image assets.
The site also features portfolio highlights from some of the 1,600 world-class photographers in the company's global talent network as well as additional resources and information that will help brand marketers identify and implement strategies for building their own custom image libraries to enhance their branding objectives.
JaincoTech Opens in Japan
(www.JaincoTech.com) a leading outsourcing and technology services provider to the stock photo industry, has established a presence in Japan, signing a joint venture agreement with Mr. Takashi Yoshida of PLANS, Ltd. JaincoTech Founder & CEO, Mr. Avinash Jain, says he is "delighted to have Mr. Takashi Yoshida, president of PLANS, Ltd. on board, thus helping JaincoTech in its global growth. Mr. Takashi Yoshida's professional experience in the photo industry and strong presence in Japan will allow JaincoTech to offer services to Japanese stock photo companies, photographers, museums and other archives companies". JaincoTech is a preferred supplier to many world-renowned stock photo companies including Alamy, Corbis and Getty Images and various world leaders of other photo imaging businesses. JaincoTech offers a world-class infrastructure with highly skilled technicians in Mumbai, India utilizing high speed internet access to serve customers throughout Japan and the world.
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