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Barcelona, May 2007 With an audience of over 160 participants, age fotostock, the well-known Barcelona based stock agency, will be getting together with the closest supporters of a technological concept, the THP (Technological Hosting Platform), developed to transform the traditional business model of agents acting as mere channels for several brands, a model which has been the basis of our industry, into a real economic community. The THP is in fact a business ecosystem, supported by a growing group of interacting organizations and individuals, who are in fact the players in this business. This economic community produces images and generates services of value to customers, who are finally themselves members of the ecosystem. THP Photo Services is a technological development by age fotostock, that specializes in web hosting and marketing services for stock photography agencies, whether providers or agents/distributors. The conception of the THP goes back to the year 2001, the starting point of a new digital imagery trading model which today allows for the distribution of over 4.7 million images, fed by 239 collections and hundreds of professional photographers, and directly or indirectly reaching over 120 stock agencies worldwide. The basis for the success of the THP Photo Services lies in the constant investment in time, skills, effort, and R&D to maintain and improve the hosting platform and all related applications. In this way, THP Photo Services helps agents/distributors and providers of stock photography alike to compete globally. This system blends the knowledge and expertise of 34 years of market experience that age fotostock has to its credit, with technologically advanced tools for conducting business. THP Photo Services is organizing the first meeting for agents & providers which will take place in Florence, Italy, in the month of June, during the CEPIC Conference. After an extremely successful THP Agents Meeting in the Spanish city of San Sebastian in 2006, THP Photo Services is organizing a forum that will bring together not only THP agents, the agencies that use the platform to distribute images worldwide, but also the providers of the imagery that feed the pool of images hosted on the platform. The main purpose of the THP Agents+Providers Meeting forum is to openly discuss opportunities within the THP framework that could lead to an even more successful business for all the parties involved, and to further strengthen the contact and communication between providers and agents that use the technological platform. The main goals of the forum are to spread the knowledge of the underlying technology of the THP, reinforce the sense of community that the THP has made possible, discuss the clear advantages of the ecosystem business model, and debate current THP issues such as the functionality, advantages, and the clear standards that the platform is setting for the industry. Alfonso Gutiérrez, General Manager at age fotostock, comments: "In the Internet economy, clients decide which websites they favor, and obviously those webs with large amounts of images and great functionalities are those first visited; however, what seems obvious represents quite a challenge in its achievement, because keeping websites current as hundreds of providers constantly feed content to a fast growing group of agents, is not an easy task, but certainly one that the THP has managed to resolve beautifully, among many other solutions it has conceived as well." The actual meeting date is June 7th, at the Palazzo degli Affari found within the CEPIC premises. The meeting is open exclusively to stock photography agents and providers that are part of the THP and that have RSVPīd. Núria Font Communications Manager e-mail: communication@agefotostock.com www.thpphotoservices.com |
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 THP Photo Services is a branch of age fotostock, the Barcelona based stock photography agency. THP Photo Services specializes in web hosting and marketing services for the stock photography agency worldwide. The conception of the THP (Technological Hosting Platform) goes back to 2001, the starting point of a new digital imagery trading model that today allows for the distribution of more than 4.7 million images, fed by 239 collections and hundreds of professional photographers, to over 120 agents directly or indirectly.  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. It offers on the internet over three million* images of an impressive range of subjects. For image research and licensing image rights visit www.agefotostock.com. (*) age fotostock does not distribute all collections existing within the THP Photo Services. age fotostock distributes its images in more than 70 countries through an extensive and solid network of agents that knows 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 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 based on the generation and reinvestment of its own resources. 
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