If you can't see this message, please visit: http://www.agefotostock.com/emailer/prre/ingles/prreTHPphstor/prreTHPphstor_eng.htm Barcelona, October 2007 THP Photo Services, the business unit from age fotostock that offers hosting and marketing services for the stock photography industry, is proud to announce the global launch of its latest service, THP PhotoStorage. This new service provides daily image updates and fulfillment of high resolution files for over 5 million images (from 243 image providers) currently residing on THP high end servers, thanks to an underlying proprietary technology developed by the age fotostock IT team. THP PhotoStorage is aimed at any distributor of stock photography images that would rather concentrate efforts and resources in much needed marketing and communication, than uploading, updating, correcting, withdrawing, re-organizing, and above all, storing millions of images from an ever growing number of sources. In fact, THP PhotoStorage can now allow distributors the freedom to represent as many collections as they want, without all the associated headaches that start with the receipt of a huge supply of high resolution image files to its subsequent upload onto the website. About this new development, Sylvie Cherian, Director of International Sales at age fotostock commented that "for some months now we´ve been receiving constant demands for this kind of service from both distributors and image providers who´ve already experienced the convenience of working with the THP. Before even launching officially we already had a number of distributors already set-up with THP PhotoStorage, and are presently in discussions to add more very soon". THP Photo Services has gained its reputation for the development of a network of close to 60 distributors, all of which use a common search engine and sophisticated back end technology which enables them to display to clients a collection of over 5 million professionally edited images. With the launch of THP PhotoStorage, any distributor can now tap into an automatic image updating and high resolution fulfillment service for this ever-growing pool of images, without having to use the THP search engine and collateral functionalities; this new service only provides storage, updating, support and delivery for the 243 hosted image collections, which include of course the age fotostock (rights managed) and Pixtal (royalty free) collections. This new service is available for a competitive monthly fee based on the number of images to be accessed. Sylvie Cherian Director of International Operations age fotostock www.agefotostock.com THP Photo Services www.thpphotoservices.com age fotostock is a general photo agency with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, and New York, dedicated to the constant uploading of images from an impressive range of subjects (rights managed and royalty free) on a daily basis. age fotostock distributes its images in more than 70 countries through an extensive and solid network of agents for which the age fotostock name not only as a synonym for a well known brand, but for its prestige of distributing 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. age fotostock is still today, after over 30 years in business, an independent, privately-owned Spanish company very much committed to growth through its own generation of capital, and based on its long industry experience, technological savvy, and marketing expertise. The term THP (Technological Hosting Platform), is defined as the sum of working and marketing efforts of a group of people: image providers, distributors and clients, interacting within the global market place, at their own will and not submissive to a major organization. Management of the THP is overseen single-handedly by age fotostock. The THP was introduced six years ago and has now evolved into a community of nearly 60 distributors, 243 RF and RM image collections and over 1.300 photographers, combining to form an impressive database of over five million high resolution files residing on age fotostock servers located in Barcelona, Spain, with a redundant node in New York city. Furthermore, another group of nearly 70 age fotostock distributors receive different levels of support as the result of the technology emanating from the THP developments, which allows age fotostock to, among other things, massively process and keyword thousands of images in seven languages within a fraction of time required for other companies to do the same. age fotostock and pixtal www.agefotostock.com email: internacional@agefotostock.com Tel: +34933002558 THP PhotoServices www.thpphotoservices.com email: sylvie@agefotostock.com Tel: +34933002558 ext 412 © 2007 age fotostock. All rights reserved.