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February 27, 2006

INDEX STOCK IMAGERY LAUNCHES NEW CORPORATE BLOG

New York, February - Index Stock Imagery, www.indexstock.com, has refined the design of its corporate blog, www.indexstockimagery.com to help better highlight Index Stock’s base of 1,700 independent artists. The site features the latest additions to Index Stock’s 1,000,000 image collection, and more than 20 “Stock Stories” that describe the adventures, travels and creative efforts of Index Stock artists. It’s fun to read about what it’s like for Jeff Randall to deal with “Narco-terrorists, guerrillas, paramilitaries”; for Chris Barfield to be a US Marshall, chasing down killers; Adrian Mueller breaking cultural barriers by speaking several languages as he shoots; or Palmi Einarsson’s “Patching Up Nature.” These artist’s lifestyles are as amazing as their images.

Index Stock Imagery adds hundreds of new photographic and illustrative images to its site each week. Recent additions have included fresh images of seniors, teens, couples, working parents, medical staff, night life, festive holidays, gambling, national parks, weddings, marine life, flowers, silhouettes and architecture. Travel images added recently include shots from the Pacific Ocean Islands, Mongolia, Africa, Chile, China, Cuba, and Afghanistan.

Index has been a leading source of Rights Managed and Royalty Free imagery for years, and has always been one of the first to offer new technologies and business models to its photographers and artists. It offers five major products:

www.indexstock.com –Editorial and commercial RM and RF
www.photostogo.com – Low resolution RM and RF, posters, postcards, and cell phone wallpapers
www.webspice.com – Web building, web art and clip art, animations, and themes
www.indexopen.com - Subscription RF in high resolution
www.photostogounlimited.com - Subscription RF in low resolution
Index also distributes images through a network of more than 100 partners located in 55 countries.

The new design also covers the latest news on Index, such as its recent distribution deals with Isifa, Isopix, Media Bakery, and NewsCom. Other ‘Useful Links’ give you access to top published stories like, What Stock Business Model Is Right For You or Finding Your Way Through the Stock Lexicon and Alphabet Soup.

Mike Kaltschnee, VP of Business Development, states, “Index Stock continues to be an innovative leader in the stock photo industry, and we enjoy connecting with our artists and clients through our outreach and ‘blogging’ with www.indexstockimagery.com and our CEO’s personal blog, www.dimdump.com. We will continue to build on these formats and look forward to feedback from our visitors.”

About Index Stock
Index Stock Imagery, Inc.™ The Independent Choice For Your Imagination, is an award winning and innovative supplier of photographs, illustrations, and digital images. It represents over 1,700 professional photographers and 80 independent still image providers and has agents in 55 foreign countries. It represents dozens of domestic collections and has 1,000,000 images available online, of which 250,000 are Royalty Free images. Index was the first stock agency to begin storing and distributing images electronically. It started scanning its collection in 1992 and launched its first e-commerce site in 1994. Index’s million-image library is one of the largest and most complete collections of commercially available images in the world. Its four major Web sites, http://www.indexstock.com, http://www.indexopen.com, http://www.photostogo.com, and http://www.photostogounlimited.com, support emailable lightboxes, e-commerce shopping, prints, posters, postcards, cell phone wallpapers, and customized price grids and high-res comps, for qualified customers in the high end design, Web marketing, small business and consumer marketplaces.
Index Stock Imagery, Inc. is a registered trademark.

Contact:

Pat Hunt
path@indexstock.com

Posted by Pat at February 27, 2006 10:12 PM

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