Press Release

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Microstock Agency PantherMedia Introduces New Credit Prices for Images, Optimizes Number of Available Image Licenses

Credit prices for images reduced up to 85 percent

Munich, November 24th, 2009. PantherMedia (http://www.panthermedia.net), the leading and rapidly growing marketplace for Royalty-Free photography with over one million images, illustrations and a vibrant photocommunity, today announces new credit prices and an optimized number of available image licenses.

With respect to their resolution single images are now available for 1€, 3€, 6€, 9€, 12€ and 24€ respectively $1, $3, $6, $9, $12 and $24. Compared to some of their previous prices, credit prices for some licenses have been reduced up to 85 percent.

Print XL (DIN A4/Letter Size) images can now be acquired for only 12 credits, Print XXL images in full resolution for only 24 credits. On the other end, acquiring images with credit packages, images for blogs are available for as low as 0.80€ respectively $0.80 (excl. VAT). Like in the past all single images can also be acquired on invoice with a different price scheme.

With the new credit pricing Panthermedia reduces simultaneously the number of available image licenses from nine to six allowing image buyers to easily select and acquire the best license type and resolution for their needs. “We listened to our customers”, said Peter Ammel, Co-founder and CTO of PantherMedia, “and their desire to keep the buying process simple and easy and to make their PantherMedia experience extraordinary.”

A complete overview on the new price scheme can be found on the new Panthermedia credit price list.

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About PantherMedia
PantherMedia is a marketplace for Royalty Free (RF) photography. Suppliers as well as buyers of commercial and editorial imagery meet on one shared platform consisting of a photocommunity for photographers and a stock agency for image buyers.
The photocommunity serves as the creative heart of the image marketplace. Professional photographers and shutterbugs from all over the world can upload, rate and comment on images. They can share their experience, further develop their photographic skills and showcase their artistic potential.
After a legal and qualitative check through PantherMedia, picture editors chose adequate images for the stock agency. Agencies, publishing houses and enterprises which need images can license photographs for their individual purposes – either as single images or through a flexible subscription plan.
The revenues will be shared with photographers. This novel business model allows through so-called „User Generated Content“, provided by over 20,000 photographers worldwide, to keep the offer of RF-images far below the average market price.
PanterMedia.net is an enterprise of PantherMedia GmbH with headquarters in Munich, Germany and was founded in October 2004. At present, PantherMedia offers more than 1 million images worldwide directly and via an international network of over 90 distribution partners in 36 countries. During the FounderChampions competition of the 25th German Days of Founders and Entrepreneurs PantherMedia represented the Federal State of Bavaria as the best Bavarian Start-up.

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