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Substantial growth for SmartFrame Technologies Ltd. Funding Round Completes Early and Senior Management Team Grows
“SmartFrame has developed a revolutionary, patent-pending new image format for the internet that seeks to redefine and become the ubiquitous digital image standard.”
Fairsearch.org website updated
Fairsearch.org a group of businesses and organizations united to promote economic growth, innovation and choice across the Internet ecosystem by fostering and defending competition in online and mobile search has updated their website.
dpa Picture-Alliance and Getty Images announce strategic distribution partnership
Getty Images will distribute over a century’s worth of definitive moments from dpa Picture-Alliance’s coverage of German politics, sports, entertainment and more
Google partners with CEPIC to host Google Images Workshop at CEPIC Congress 2018
As part of its annual Congress on 31.05.2018, CEPIC is partnering with Google and IPTC to host two sessions, both of which are open to the public, focusing on how visual authors can leverage Google Images.

Bridgeman acquires specialist music and arts agency LEBRECHT Photo Library
Bridgeman is proud and excited to announce the acquisition of Lebrecht Photo Library, the world’s largest image bank for classical music and related arts, with a collection of over 400,000 specialist images.

agefotostock appoints Yolanda Sandoval as Business Development Manager
Following the launch of their new web that simplifies their business in three primary business areas, Press, Creative and Economic imagery, what has always been a creative stock photography agency, now appoints Yolanda Sandoval for their office in Madrid to handle the business development of a crucial business area that they have recently branched into.

agefotostock presents a new website displaying Press Images and a Simplified Business Model
Press and news images, creative photographs and a mountain of other visual content that goes from cheap to very cheap, defined as Microstock, although if we want to go lower on pricing, we can also find masses of free pictures from unknown, if not desperate authors, produced to generate internet traffic.
Brendan Quinn named as new IPTC Mangaing Director
The International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) has named Brendan Quinn as its new managing director.Quinn joins the IPTC with two decades of experience in managing technology for media companies

CEPIC 2026
Building on the success of previous years, CEPIC 2026 promises to be our most exciting event yet. Three days of business, connection, and inspiration in the vibrant city of Valencia, Spain. This unmissable gathering brings together visual media professionals to explore new opportunities, share ideas, and shape the future of the image licensing industry.