THP Photo Services: 250+ brands available to distributors worldwide Barcelona October 2007 THP Photo Services, the branch of age fotostock that offers image hosting and marketing services for the stock photography industry, has announced that it has accomplished its objective set for 2007 to make more than 250 brands, or image collections, available on the Technological Hosting Platform (THP). Since July, THP Photo Services has added to the platform well over 650,000 professionally edited images from 129 different brands; over 20 of these brands come from new providers to the THP. The THP is expected to hold close to 6 million images by the end of the year 2007. The latest addition to the content mix found on the THP are giving close to 60 global distributors that are part of the THP a very necessary diversity in the selection of content which can help them meet their different market needs for their various type of clients. To highlight some of the latest additions, we find Arabian Eye, with Royalty Free images with a middle Eastern flavour, NativeStock Pictures with imagery that portrays US Native American people and lifestyle, the Irish Image Collection that portrays a good mix with both Royalty Free and Rights Managed images, The Mexican Collection, TMC, with superior Rights Managed images focusing exclusively on Mexico as a country and culture, or Cultura with highly stylish Royalty Free images focusing on lifestyle in Europe. Among the themed specialized and select collections, the THP has recently added Red Cover, a supreme Rights Managed collection with images that cover trendy interior design and home lifestyle or DeAgostini Editore images for reference and encyclopedic products covering excellent subjects as archeology, geography, botany, zoology, history, or art. All in all a really well balanced mix of RM and RF images covering well spread market needs and segmentation. Núria Font Communication Manager age fotostock www.agefotostock.com THP Photo Services www.THPphotoservices.com about age fotostock age fotostock is a general stock photo agency with offices in New York, Barcelona and Madrid, and the core of its business is licensing reproduction rights for Royalty Free, under Pixtal brand, and Rights Managed images from hundreds of photographers under the age fotostock name. It offers on the internet close to four 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 knows the age fotostock and Pixtal names not only as a synonym for well known brands, but for the guarantee of distributing one of the best quality and most varied collections in the world. age fotostock is a technologically advanced photographic agency with an efficient information technology department. Its IT team constantly develops and innovates the applications necessary to guarantee 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, committed to its own development (*) age fotostock does not represent all the collections distributed through the THP platform. about THP Photo Services THP Photo Services is a branch of age fotostock, the Barcelona based stock photography agency. THP Photo Services specializes in web supporting and marketing services for the stock photography agency worldwide. The conception of the THP (Technological Hosting Platform) goes back to 2000, the starting point of a new digital imagery trading model that today allows for the distribution of millions of images, fed by hundreds of professional stock photo agencies and mostly exclusive professional photographers, to distributors worldwide. Contact 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