CEPIC Congress: PantherMedia and Pixamba team up to deliver a new media management service for stock photography buyers

3 June 2010.  Microstock agency PantherMedia is now offering its customers Pixamba’s new digital image management software, which simplifies stock photo management, sharing, comparison, rights control and license tracking as well as image search and licensing.

Representatives from PantherMedia and Pixamba will be available to demonstrate the new software at the upcoming CEPIC event in Dublin, from 9 – 13 June 2010, http://www.cepic.org/.

Under the new agreement, PantherMedia will offer the new digital assets management service to its customers.  By using Pixamba, PantherMedia customers can gain full control of their existing archives of purchased stock photos as well as images created in-house. In addition, Pixamba’s easy-to-use interface offers customers the ability to purchase PantherMedia images directly in the Pixamba software, reducing the hassle of downloading images and metadata from the stock agency  and importing them into the digital image management system.

PantherMedia’s customer base includes creatives, such as graphic- and web-designers, publishing houses and corporate marketing departments. Customers using Pixamba will benefit from:

• Centralized digital media storage and management accessible from anywhere 24x7
• Advanced fast search functionality
• Cataloging of purchased images via categories, lightboxes or folders
• Integrated search in customer's archive and in multiple stock agencies
• Purchase and license images and illustration directly in the management software
• License control
• Security, reliability and high availability backed up by a world-leading cloud computing platform
• No initial investment and low pay-as-you-go service costs
• Accepts virtually any digital asset

Robert Walters, CEO of PantherMedia, comments on this new Pixamba media management service for designers, creatives and art directors: “We are always looking at ways to add value to our service. With Pixamba, we now help to maximize our customer’s investment in their image archives. Our customers can now find their existing images and easily license additional imagery, which is delivered to their accounts automatically, hence saving valuable time and money.”

David Mail, CEO of Pixamba added: “PantherMedia is our long-term valued partner and the first microstock agency to offer our innovative media management for the stock photography consumers.  Since the launch of our new digital assets management platform, we have received an overwhelmingly positive market response from end users and are now partnering with stock photo agencies worldwide providing a complimentary highly demanded service to their customers.”

Pixamba will be at CEPIC to demonstrate the new software and is also available to discuss cooperation with stock agencies.

To organize a demo of Pixamba, please contact info@pixamba.com or call us on +972 544 330 357 during the event.  Find us also on Twitter @pixamba and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pixamba/117287108312481

To try Pixamba, please visit: http://www.pixamba.com/

To visit PantherMedia, please contact Robert Walters, robert.walters@panthermedia.net, +49-89-2872970.  Additional information at http://www.panthermedia.net?pixamba
You can find PantherMedia on Twitter @panthermedia and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/PantherMedia-Stockagency-Fotocommunity/124146895258

About PantherMedia
Panthermedia.net is an online marketplace for royalty-free photography. Buyers and sellers of royalty-free images meet on one common platform. This platform is divided in a photo community for photographers and a stock agency for art buyers.
The photo community serves as the creative heart of the marketplace. Semi-professional and hobby photographers from all over the world can submit images to our site, communicate and interact with other members of the community, share their knowledge and experiences, and sell their images. The company’s goal is to provide an environment where photographers can develop their artistic potential.
Editors at panthermedia.net select images for the company’s archive. The licences for using these images for editorial or commercial purposes are offered in the stock agency. PantherMedia’s primary target group are small and medium-sized agencies, publishers and companies working with a limited budget. PantherMedia’s team of sales representatives support customers in their search and selection of images.  The company has created an easy and affordable pricing structure that is significantly below regular prices for professional royalty free images.
Panthermedia.net is an enterprise of PantherMedia GmbH, located in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in October of 2004.

About Pixamba
Pixamba is a business software development and media services company providing solutions for the international microstock market. The company introduced its first product for microstock originators, the ProStockMaster desktop software solution in 2006. Pixamba’s solutions and services are regularly used by leading microstock sellers and buyers worldwide.
The new Pixamba Media Management platform is based on four years of rigorous development and validation in the dynamic microstock business environment.  The company has used its extensive SaaS and client-side experience and expertise in the modern stock imagery market to develop its innovative and feature-rich software platform for digital media management.
Effectively addressing key operational and business challenges associated with the microstock industry, the platform was specifically designed to provide imagery consumers of any scale and type with an affordable yet powerful media and workflow management solution that maximizes investment and avoids loss of assets and time efficiencies.