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'Exclaim Launches Stock Shooter Program for the Pro Photographer Community'
Trenton, N.J.—March 6, 2007 – Today Exclaim, announces the 'Stock Shooter Program', a partnership with the Photolibrary Group that significantly expands the marketplace of services for professional photographers offered by its dotPhotoPro.com property. Now professional photographers who are members of the dotPhotoPro.com service can submit their photo work to the Photolibrary Group, a highly respected, well-connected worldwide stock agency, and boost revenue opportunities with professional, rights-managed or royalty free image marketing. The Photolibrary Group, an award-winning and innovative supplier of photographs, illustrations, and digital images, will extend its image management capabilities into dotPhotoPro’s online community. Photographers registered at www.dotPhotoPro.com can join the Stock Shooter Program by visiting dotPhoto.indexstockimagery.com a Photolibrary Group US based subsidiary, where the Photolibrary Group’s advanced search engine, metadata, and tagging systems rapidly and accurately store and search over three million images. While there, dotPhoto artists can also learn about the Stock Shooter Program’s benefits; assess the overall stock photo marketplace needs; speak directly to a Photolibrary Group editor for advice, answers, and feedback; submit images for review and evaluation; and receive royalty payments when their images are licensed. The Photolibrary Group navigates the rights management process on behalf of photographers, obtaining all rights and releases pertinent to images, and assuring complete legality, copyright security, and payment disbursement for artists. We’re thrilled to be able to provide these essential business building blocks to the professional photographers who depend on the marketplace of services offered at dotPhotoPro.com," says Glenn Parker, CEO of the Photolibrary Group. "We exist for the benefit of independent artists, and we look forward to providing commercial photography licensing opportunities to talented dotPhotoPro members who need the guidance and support that a major stock agency provides, and who wish to ensure that they earn a fair return on their work." "dotPhoto’s Pro Service is committed to accelerating the business success of our professional users, as our partnership with Index Stock Imagery and he Photolibrary Group demonstrates," says Fred King, Vice President and General Manager–Web Properties for Exclaim. "We go beyond posting or reselling. dotPhotoPro is the only photo-sharing service to deliver a marketplace of services through innovative, complimentary partnerships. That’s why more professional photographers are turning to us to help them take their business further with commercial licensing, and, ultimately, higher visibility, revenue, and professional satisfaction." About ExclaimSM Exclaim is a leading branded platform provider of innovative Web and wireless applications that allow advanced sharing of digital images, video, and rich media. The Exclaim platform enables wireless and Web providers to easily extend and offer digital imaging services to their customers, to better engage online audiences, increase wireless network traffic, and boost revenue. The Exclaim platform seamlessly integrates and moves rich media from wireless handsets to Web applications to devices in the home, providing the most complete rich media solution on the market today. The Exclaim platform enables some of the leading online photo sharing properties including: Adobe’s photoshopshowcase.com, Takeapic.com, dotPhoto.com and dotPhotoPro.com. More information about Exclaim is available at www.exclaim.com. About The Photolibrary Group The Photolibrary Group represents over 100 of the world’s leading brands and 3,000+ photographers from around the world to bring memorable, workable content to the creative communities in Europe, America, Asia and the Pacific. We provide customers with access to over 3 million images and over 2,000 hours of footage. The Photolibrary Group is comprised of Photolibrary (Rights managed and royalty free images) at www.photolibrary.com, specialist agencies Oxford Scientific (OSF) www.osf.co.uk, Garden Picture Library (GPL) www.gardenpicture.com, Fresh Food Images www.freshfoodimages.com, Monsoon Images www.monsoonimages.com and our newest addition, Indexstock Imagery Inc, www.indexstock.com. Photolibrary Group was founded in 1967 and, 40 years on has a global presence with offices in New York, London, Oxford, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Mumbai, and the Philippines
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