If you can't see this message, please visit: http://www.agefotostock.com/emailer/prre/ingles/prrethpbuedi/prrethpbuedi_eng.htm Barcelona, November 2007 The stock photography agency Buenos Dias of Austria has recently joined the THP PhotoServices platform, the branch of age fotostock that offers hosting and marketing services for the stock photography industry. By joining the network, this full-service stock photo agency, selling Rights Managed and Royalty Free images, has become the second THP agent in Austria and the 53rd THP agent in the worldwide network. With 25 years of experience in the stock photography industry, the privately owned agency Buenos Dias has decided to embrace the THP technology which will provide it with the tools and support necessary to better compete in today's fast evolving and highly technologically-oriented industry. By shifting over to the THP system, this agency has converted to the THP standards, making the current stock of up to 1.5 million images in its portfolio easier to market and to administer. Christopher Urban, Director of Buenos Dias, comments: "As a small agency, we couldn't manage the handling of the batches of new images and metadata in a satisfactory way. We wanted to concentrate on marketing and selling images. Using the THP makes much sense for us and we are looking forward to working with this technological platform and the network of affiliated picture agencies." Sylvie Cherian, International Sales Director of age fotostock, says: "We are extremely pleased to welcome Buenos Dias into the THP network, their long standing experience in the industry together with the THP muscle will definitely provide their clients with the unbeatable combination of a very large variety of professionally edited images, with top-notch service only a very knowledgeable and experienced agency can provide". Sylvie Cherian Director - International Sales age fotostock www.agefotostock.com Established in 1982, Buenos Dias is one of Austria´s leading photo agencies with its headquarters in Vienna and a branch office in Slovenia. Buenos Dias is an owner managed full-service stock photo agency, selling Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free images for use in professional creative work, such as graphic and web design, advertising and publishing. 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 over 50 distributors, 257 RF and RM image collections and over 1,300 photographers, combining to form an impressive database of around 6 million high-resolution files residing on age fotostock servers located in Barcelona, Spain, and New York. Furthermore, another group of nearly 70 age fotostock distributors receive different levels of support as 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 the time required for other companies to do the same. Buenos Dias Bildagentur http://www.buenosdias.at Auhofstrasse 15 1130 Wien Tel: +43 1 877 54 03 Fax: +43 1 877 54 03-70 E-Mail: images@buenosdias.at age fotostock Sylvie Cherian www.agefotostock.com email: internacional@agefotostock.com Tel: +34933002552 ext 412 THP PhotoServices Alexa Plourde www.thpphotoservices.com email: alexa@agefotostock.com Tel: +34933002552 ext 472 © 2007 age fotostock. All rights reserved.