New times, more features. age fotostock has launched a brand new Website

age fotostock, a stock photography agency based in Spain with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, New York, and Paris, launched a brand new customer-focused website this month. The site, http://www.agefotostock.com, has been especially designed by in-house age fotostock web designers and programmers in direct response to research of customer and client needs. The enhanced functionality and new search engine spearhead the beginning of many improvements to the age fotostock and THP platforms.

Moving hand in hand with developments in technology, the business model of the stock photography industry has been changing constantly and dramatically in the past years, both in regards to agencies’ administrative needs as well as the clients’ approach to licensing images. age fotostock has undertaken the development of a new website that recognizes and incorporates these changes.

Alfonso Gutiérrez, CEO of age fotostock, comments, “We have listened to our clients and have developed the new search engine and all collateral functionalities based on their advice, adapting it to today’s needs and client requirements and demands. Furthermore we needed to acknowledge that content is increasing nowadays in ways never expected many years ago, and video is also a key element that requires much storage and fast processing. For more than a year now we have been ready to service our clients with what we believe is a tool that will help them in the decision making process and the licensing of images.

The decision to develop the new website from scratch rather than improve the original website built in 2007 was made early on. Because of the largess of this mission, a modular approach was elected by age fotostock and bridges were developed to make both the old and the new codes functional, ensuring that the business would not be disrupted when the new modules started to be operative. age fotostock has now begun unveiling functional modules that will result in the complete metamorphosis of the new age fotostock website over the following months. These changes will also be applied to all THP (Technological Hosting Platform) member accounts.

Highlights of the current website include:

Drag and drop items
An item drag and drop function enables the smooth addition of items to both light boxes and shopping carts.

Permanent Search Box
The search box is always present no matter where you are in the website.

Enhanced item preview
The new “Item preview” window offers detailed information and the ability to navigate throughout items in the search results while maintaining the original search results in the background.

Extensive search engine filters
An expanded Search Engine section allows you to find results faster and more easily by applying filters from a range of terms and categories.

Julieanne Eason, the Content Manager and International Coordinator at age fotostock, comments, “We continue to make a strenuous effort to blend methods and procedures in this new website & the THP system.  Not only will we see improvements in the front end of the site such as the new search engine, but also in the back end, where the monitoring and control of exclusive sales in global and small markets makes use of the newly simplified and efficient THP licensing matrix.

ABOUT AGE FOTOSTOCK
age fotostock is a general photo agency with offices in Barcelona, Madrid, New York, and Paris, dedicated to the daily addition of quality images (Rights Managed, Royalty Free and Low Budget Royalty Free) and videos from an impressive range of subjects. age fotostock also produces its own collections, age fotostock (RM), Pixtal, (RF) and low budget Royalty Free easyFotostock (LBRF), which are all distributed through www.agefotostock.com, as well as through over 100 agencies worldwide.

ABOUT THP Photo & Video Services
The THP is the Technological Hosting Platform that connects image and video providers, distributors, and clients. The THP hosts an impressive database of more than 21 million high resolution image files and close to 400.000 video clips. THP Photo & Video Services also provides Photo Storage and High Resolution file access to over one hundred companies worldwide.

The THP was created and is managed single-handedly by age fotostock, and has evolved into a community of close to 60 companies worldwide that enjoy direct access to over 450 RM, RF and LBRF collections.

CONTACT INFORMATION
age fotostock / THP Photo & Video Services
Julieanne Eason
Content Manager and International Coordinator
Julieanne@agefotostock.com

tel.(+34) 93 300 25 52
www.agefotostock.com
www.thpphotoservices.com