New Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com to Provide Customers Even
More Authentic, Diverse and Regionally Relevant Imagery
SEATTLE & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Getty Images, the world’s leading creator and
distributor of visual content and other digital media, and Flickr™,
a division of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and one of the world’s
largest photo sharing communities, today announce a collaboration that
unites the authenticity of images from the Flickr community with Getty
Images’ imagery collections, photographic
expertise and unrivalled experience in licensing digital media.
The exclusive partnership allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members
to participate in a Flickr branded collection on www.gettyimages.com
that will be available for licensing to Getty Images’
creative, commercial and editorial customers in the coming months.
“We are excited and proud to be partnering
with Flickr to offer our customers even more choice for their projects.
Our customers will be able to select and use the best imagery from a
fresh collection of high-quality images chosen by us from Flickr’s
diverse and prolific community,” said Jonathan
Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. “Flickr
is the ideal partner as we continue to move the imagery industry forward
by offering the broadest range of high quality digital content to our
customers.”
“This partnership is testimony to the Flickr
community of photographers who have influenced the aesthetics of
photography with authentic, creative and cutting-edge images which will
now be available to Getty Images’ customers
around the world,” said Kakul Srivastava,
General Manager, Flickr. “We share Getty
Images’ commitment to the power of imagery
and are thrilled to be working with the unrivaled leader in image
licensing. Getty Images offers an unbeatable platform, licensing
expertise, and a premier brand for Flickr members who want to bring
their imagery to a worldwide customer base.”
Getty Images and Flickr are working together to establish the first
commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr
community. The Flickr collection will feature photography selected by
Getty Images editors based on their expertise in licensing digital
content and insights into customers’ needs.
In the next several months, Getty Images will begin inviting selected
Flickr members who will have the choice to participate in the
collection. The two companies are collaborating to build online tools to
help editors contact Flickr members, and to add images to the new
collection. Over the next several months, thousands of high-quality
images will be available for licensing on www.gettyimages.com
with a goal of making many more available over time.
“Through this partnership, we will be
offering an expanded choice of imagery with more regionally relevant
content and a wider range in the style of photography available,”
said Andy Saunders, Vice President of Creative Imagery at Getty Images. “Flickr’s
philosophy of personal sharing and immediacy has already impacted
commercial photography. The new Flickr collection will expand the
definition of stock photography by making it even easier for our
customers to find and license imagery that works in the full range of
traditional and digital media.”
Getty Images will be the exclusive commercial rights manager of the
photos selected to become part of the collection. Flickr members will
benefit from Getty Images’ global sales and
distribution teams helping to market their images and from Getty Images’
expertise and experience in rights and clearances of visual content.
Getty Images’ customers will benefit from the
fresh, unique and individualistic perspectives of members within Flickr’s
global community. More information on the different ways imagery can be
licensed on www.gettyimages.com
can be found at: http://www.gettyimages.com/Corporate/LicenseInfo.aspx.
About Getty Images
Getty Images is the world’s leading creator
and distributor of still imagery, footage and multimedia products, as
well as a recognized provider of other forms of premium digital content,
including music. Getty Images serves business customers in more than 100
countries and is the first place creative and media professionals turn
to discover purchase and manage images and other digital content. Its
award-winning photographers and imagery help customers produce inspiring
work which appears every day in the world’s
most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films,
television programs, books and Web sites. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com
to learn more about how the company is advancing the unique role of
digital media in communications and business, and enabling creative
ideas to come to life.
About Flickr
Flickr is one of the world's leading online photo and video sharing
communities where people explore, find and manage pictures and video
clips of life's daily moments with friends, family and the world. With
54 million worldwide visitors each month and more than 2 billion photos
stored by 27 million members, Flickr serves as the 'eyes of the world'
and has revolutionized the sharing and discovery of what people see and
experience through digital imagery. Flickr was developed by Ludicorp in
February 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in March 2005. To share and explore
the world's photos and videos, visit www.flickr.com.