PictureQuest To Distribute Getty's PhotoDisc Royalty-Free Images
Press release from the issuing company
VIENNA, Va.---PictureQuest, a leader in the distribution of royalty-free and rights-protected stock photography on the Web, today announced a deal with Getty Images, Inc.'s PhotoDisc , a leading provider of royalty-free digital stock photography to graphic designers, ad agencies, small businesses and corporations worldwide. 37,000 of the royalty-free images from the www.photodisc.com collection will be available on the PictureQuest Web site, www.picturequest.com, which provides creative professionals in advertising, graphic design, publishing and broadcasting with access to content from the world's top providers.
PhotoDisc will supply PictureQuest with about 37,000 images that are available individually through download or in collections on more than 220 CDs as theme-related packages comprising lifestyle, business, nature, art and design. PictureQuest members can search and purchase single images or the complete collection via CD-Rom.
``Getty Images, Inc. & PictureQuest share a common goal to get the broadest selection of the best images available to the creative professional as quickly and as easily as possible,'' said Kasz Maciag, VP of Royalty-Free Brands for Getty Images. ``We are excited to be working with PictureQuest in addition to our own sites www.photodisc.com and www.gettyone.com, to make part of the PhotoDisc collection available to PictureQuest users. This increases the fast accessibility of premium high-resolution PhotoDisc images to the creative professional.''
With 70 million photographs and about 30,000 hours of film, Getty Images is the largest international provider of visual content to consumer and professional markets. Getty's collections include industry leaders, such as Stone(TM), The Image Bank , FPG , Art.com(TM) and PhotoDisc. PhotoDisc has pioneered the Internet offering of theme-related royalty-free images from award-winning photographers since 1992.
``PictureQuest and PhotoDisc are both established brand names on the Internet offering clients supreme customer service,'' said Bob Bender, VP of Content Communities for eMotion. ``This partnership will allow us to offer our customers, in particular, advertising agencies and corporate marketers, access to a variety of additional stock photography collections, ultimately providing them with more choice.''
PictureQuest, a content community for royalty-free and rights-protected stock photography, currently offers a library of royalty-free images, which encompasses more than 1000 CDs and over 100,000 single images. In addition, the site provides access to 36 of the world's largest rights-protected stock photography collections. All collections offered on the PictureQuest site can be searched and retrieved via a natural language search engine that is patented and owned by eMotion, a leading provider of digital media management solutions and PictureQuest's parent company. Customers can use everyday vocabulary to find and view photos and to get specific information on pricing and licensing.
About eMotion, Inc., and PictureQuest
PictureQuest, a division of eMotion, Inc., is one of the largest aggregators of royalty free and rights-protected photography, representing the image collections from over 50 of the world's leading agencies. Online since 1995, PictureQuest leverages eMotion's MediaQuest technology to allow users to find images faster and more efficiently with natural language searching. Visit PictureQuest at www.picturequest.com, or call 800/764-7427.
eMotion, Inc., a venture backed company, is the leading provider of digital media management solutions in the world today. For advertising, Global 1000 companies, government media, entertainment and broadcast, eMotion offers an array of products and services that power the entire lifecycle of media management, from creation and collaboration to searching, storage and distribution. eMotion is headquartered in Vienna, Va., with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley, and Chicago. You can find more information at http://www.emotion.com
About PhotoDisc and Getty Images, Inc.
PhotoDisc pioneered the development and marketing of digital stock photography products and the electronic delivery of images. PhotoDisc's products are offered on a royalty-free basis, which allows customers to pay a one-time fee to use an image on a nonexclusive basis for almost any purpose. PhotoDisc markets its products to creative professionals in the graphic design, advertising, prepress, publishing, and web and multimedia design industries, as well as to corporate and small office/home office (SOHO) users. PhotoDisc is a brand of Getty Images Inc. Getty Images, Inc., with over 70 million images and an estimated 30,000 hours of film, is the leading e-commerce provider of imagery and related products and services. The company provides high-quality, branded imagery, meeting the distinctly different needs of customers in four market segments: Creative professionals in advertising, design agencies, Web design and corporate marketing; Press and editorial professionals in magazines, newspapers, book publishers and Web publishers; The business user, or self-publisher, with business communications and small-office, home-office needs; and Consumers seeking framed and unframed art and related products.
Headquartered in Seattle, the company has approximately 2,800 employees worldwide. For more information on Getty Images and its market-leading brands, please visit the Company's Web site at http://www.gettyimages.com.