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 Barcelona, April 2009 THP Photo Services, the technological hosting platform created and managed by age fotostock, the renowned stock photo agency based in Barcelona, has announced the incorporation of two new members to the platform: MyMediastore from Italy, and VMS Images from South Africa, who will now benefit from all the technical aspects related to hosting, search engine, and content management that the THP offers to all its members. MyMediastore has been licensing Royalty Free Imagery since 2003, providing images and other graphic contents to advertising companies and graphic studios. MyMediastore has implemented the advanced e-commerce tools provided by the THP platform, which in addition to the storage, content management, and reporting capabilities for the agency, also provides online payment functionality, immediate HighRes download, and many other advantages for end users. The agency had been distributing the Pixtal brand since 2005 and has done very well with it. Other than distributing the 78,000+ Pixtal images, the agency is adding several other collections to their website via the THP Photo Services hosting platform, adding up to almost 1 million images. Joining the THP from the other hemisphere is VMS Images, a South African agency lead by Celia McCulla, which with over twelve years’ experience in the digital media industry, envisions a service that provides the widest possible selection to their client base. Celia McCulla´s comments regarding the VMS Images portfolio and Technological Hosting Platform offered by THP Photo Services are: “We are always on the lookout for exciting new collections to add to our rapidly-growing library. By featuring the best of the best, and offering it to clients by means of the technological platform THP Photo Services offers to us, we can best serve both our customers and our suppliers, for the benefit of all.” Teresa Alonso, Director of International Sales at age fotostock, comments: "We are extremely pleased to welcome VMS Images and MyMediastore into the THP network. Their long standing experience in the industry, together with the THP technology, will definitely provide the teams and customers of these agencies with the perfect tools and services to commercialize their imagery. The THP Members network keeps growing as a force in the stock photography market, and now more than ever, THP Photo Services keeps focusing on saving cost, time, and efforts to all members of its community.” Both MyMediastore and VMS Images are now distributing age fotostock’s Royalty Free collection, Pixtal. Pixtal is a fresh, fun, and trendy collection but startlingly representative of today’s world, that offers contemporary images of a great variety of themes and styles. Pixtal is a flexible and adaptable collection that can even fit the needs of two such diverse countries as Italy and South Africa. Today there are close to 60 image distributing agencies in the THP network, and with the addition of MyMediastore and VMS Images, THP PhotoServices continues to grow the network of distributors in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, to maximize sales opportunities for its own collections, age fotostock and Pixtal, and for the over 350 image producers and providers. |
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MyMediastore is based in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and has been licensing Royalty Free Imagery since 2003. It provides images and other graphic contents to advertising companies and graphic studios. MyMediastore is under the umbrella of Graphiland, which offers photography, illustration, font, video, sound, software, hardware, and other design tools products to serve most needs of the creative community through their websites www.mymediastore.com and www.graphiland.it |
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VMS Images stands for Visual Media Syndication Images and is a dynamic photographic media library, located in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dedicated to customer service, immaculate professionalism in all spheres, streamlining customer relationships, and taking into account their needs and aims, setting it apart from other image management suppliers. |
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The term THP (Technological Hosting Platform), is defined as the sum of the working and marketing efforts of a group of people: image providers, distributors, and clients, interacting interdependently within the global marketplace. Management of the THP is overseen single-handedly by age fotostock. THP Photo Services software created eight years ago has evolved into a community of close to 56 companies worldwide that can enjoy 352 RF and RM image collections and the images of more than 1,600 photographers, which make up an impressive database of slightly over 8.5 million high-resolution files residing on THP Photo Services servers located in Barcelona, Spain, and New York, USA. |
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age fotostock is a general photo agency with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, New York, and Paris, dedicated to the continual addition of quality images (Rights Managed and Royalty Free) from an impressive range of subjects on a daily basis. age fotostock also produces its own collections, age fotostock (RM), Pixtal, (RF) and easyFotostock (LBRF*), which are all distributed through www.agefotostock.com as well as through over 180 other agencies worldwide, for whom the age fotostock name is a well-known brand with the prestige of one of the best and most varied collections in the world. age fotostock is a technologically advanced photographic agency with an extremely efficient IT department that constantly innovates and develops the applications necessary to guarantee an impeccable internet service twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Today, after over 35 years in business age fotostock is still an independent, privately owned Spanish company, committed to growth through its own generation of capital, and based on a foundation of long industry experience, technological savvy, and marketing expertise. (*) Low Budget Royalty Free, is a collection of images priced at $20, $40, $60 and $80 per photograph. easyFotostock allows the purchaser to obtain an image quickly, without the hassle of pre-payment. |
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