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Barcelona, September 2006
THP Photo Services, in short THP, delivers the world's leading images to end users, managing the IT infrastructure, software, security, service levels, and IT governance, allowing stock agencies to focus on their core business: selling pictures. The advantages are obvious: achieve benefits sooner, dramatically lower website maintenance costs, receive a better service at all levels, and create a very clear path to business growth.
age fotostock announces that their THP solution has reached a community of 50 stock photography companies using it as their preferred solution to build a strong presence in the Internet economy. Over 185 Rights Managed and Royalty Free providers, together with close to 1.300 photographers represented by age fotostock accumulates an impressive 3,7 million exquisitely edited image files that reside in age fotostock servers.

Commitment to stock photography success in a turbulent business has driven age fotostock to invest in and continue to develop the THP, a comprehensive set of functionalities designed specifically to make the distribution of great images an easy and affordable exercise for everybody.

The THP resolves complexities in all those stock photography agencies that want to directly benefit from the Internet economy, no matter they are in Honolulu or Buenos Aires. Being a THP Photo Services user means faster access to the latest imagery available without having to worry about keyword translation, image uploading, or digital file adjustments. This flexibility makes websites show their clients millions of images without the stock agencies using the THP even being aware of the miracle.

Since the THP delivers essential software services on a per web /per month basis, agencies can budget IT expenses based on projected business volumes, and not worry about incurring unexpected expenses for software upgrades or malfunction repairs within their own IT structure.

The THP deploys the resources necessary to meet its service-level commitments. There is no middleman. Agencies use the THP and age fotostock manages the rest. age fotostock applies the knowledge of more than 32 years of experience in stock photography, and the best practices gained from 50 successful THP implementations, software updates, 3,7 million images uploads and problem resolutions to further minimize technical, operational, and business risk.

With the THP, stock agencies can balance quality, flexibility, cost and risk for their business and their Internet website presence. Stock photography agencies satisfaction drives age fotostock to constantly perfect a highly scalable infrastructure and world-class services.
age fotostock's THP Photo Services is creating a fast growing business community than competes easily and affordably in a world that seems wrongly dominated by a few companies. age fotostock is committed to making stock photography companies successful in the Internet economy.
Alfonso Gutiérrez, Managing Director at age fotostock noted: "The THP today is the logical
conclusion of a business model that was born with the philosophy in mind of thinking global but acting local; a community such as the THP, interacts in many different parts of the globe, from New Zealand to Sweden, in such a way that agents participating in the network can offer at a very affordable price millions of images to their clients minimizing the impact that bigger companies may generate in their territories. Now both have similar amounts of images and the key to gaining client’s attention will be basic marketing expertise, but not amount of content".
Núria Font
Communications Manager
e-mail: communication@agefotostock.com
www.agefotostock.com
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age fotostock is a photo agency with offices in New York, Barcelona and Madrid, and the core of its business is licensing reproduction rights for Royalty Free and Rights Managed images. Its offer over the internet, contains over two million* images of an impressive range of subjects. For image research and licensing image rights visit www.agefotostock.com.
age fotostock distributes its images in more than 70 countries through an extensive and solid network of agents that know that the warranty of age fotostock is not only a synonym of a known brand, but the prestige of distributing one of the best collections in the world.
age fotostock is a technologically advanced photographic agency, with an efficient information technology department. The IT team constantly develops and innovates the applications necessary to warrantee an impeccable internet service that allows clients to acquire the best photography twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
age fotostock, after many years of activity, is still an independent company, Spanish, and committed to its own development basing this on generating and reinvesting its own resources.
(*) age fotostock does not distribute all collections existing within the THP Photo Services.

If you need further information, kindly contact age fotostock at:
Barcelona
María Martínez
age fotostock
Buenaventura Muñoz, 16
08018 – Barcelona
Teléfono: 93 300 25 52
Fax: 93 309 39 77
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Madrid
Raquel Carnal
age fotostock
Bretón de los Herreros, 59 Bajos b
28003 Madrid
Telf. 91 451 86 00
Fax: 91 451 86 01
agemadrid@agefotostock.com
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Nueva York
Susan Jones
age fotostock america inc.
594 Broadway, Suite707
Nueva York, NY 10012-3257
Telf. 212-625-9000
Toll free: 1-877-884-9800
agenyc@agefotostock.com
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