Pixoto need Designers and Artists!

Designers, Artists and Illustrators can now get feedback, win awards and sell their creative works through Pixoto with their new content categories that launched today. Please take a moment to tell any creative types that you know about this great new feature.




New Content Types

• Illustration & Design: includes Illustration, Web & Apps, Print & Grapics, Logos and Typography
• Traditional Art: includes Painting, Drawing, Calligraphy, Street Art, Mixed Media and Sculpture

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Pixoto Launches Ground Breaking Stock Photo Service

Pixoto announced today the launch of the Pixoto Stock Photo Marketplace, the first such service to use community votes to rank every image.

BODY: Boulder, CO Pixoto,Inc. announced today the launch of a ground breaking new stock photo service as an add-on to it’s wildly successful photo contest and community. Pixoto claims this is the first stock photo service where every image is ranked by community votes. Pixoto uses a proprietary voting algorithm called “ImageDuel” to find the best photos from the thousands submitted each day from over 100,000 members around the world. Already over 1.5 million photos have been ranked and 75 million votes cast. The marketplace can be accessed at www.pixoto.com/stock

Pixoto simultaneously launched a revolutionary free image tool for bloggers. Bloggers can search for images at www.pixoto.com/stock/search?options=embeddable to find community-ranked images to use on their blog pages completely FREE of charge.

Jason B. Kiefer, the Company’s CEO, says there are four main reasons why Pixoto Stock provides a better experience than competing stock service.

1. Quality and speed: Every photo is rated by the Pixoto Community -- with the best showing up first
2. Fresh: New images can rise to the top in a matter of hours
3. Validated: Hundreds of people vote on each image
4. Unique: These aren’t your typical stock shots. Pixoto photographs are submitted by a community of over 100,000 professional and hobby photographers from around the world

Pixoto’s photography contest system is completely innovative, leveling the playing field between participants who can sign-up for free. Photographers submit images in preset categories such as wildlife, travel, architecture, and specific themes, etc., which are then matched against one another in side by side votes called ImageDuels. The results of the ImageDuels, which are completed by Pixoto members, are used to generate a proprietary ImageScore. The higher the ImageScore, the more people like the photo. The average image on Pixoto collects votes from 80 unique people.

ABOUT PIXOTO

Founded in 2011 in Boulder, CO, Pixoto has quickly become the web’s leading photo contest site with more than 100,000 members in more than 150 counties and over 1.5 million images submitted. Pixoto’s revolutionary ImageDuel voting system aggregates millions of individual voter preferences to create “leaderboards” of the best images in the world. For additional information, please visit www.pixoto.com.

Pixoto announce the official launch of the Pixoto Stock Marketplace

Pixoto is proud to announce the official launch of the Pixoto Stock Marketplace. Designers, editors, webmasters, bloggers, marketers, etc., will now have easy access to buy YOUR stock images by using our cutting-edge search technology.

As a launch special, we are offering 50% off all stock photo purchases (though payments to our contributors will remain at 100%). This offer is for a limited time only! Please tell your friends that Pixoto is THE PLACE to buy stock photography and the time is NOW! Just direct them to www.pixoto.com/stock

Why is the Pixoto Stock Marketplace better than other services?

• High quality: Every photo is rated by the Pixoto Community -- with the best showing up first
• Fresh: New images can rise to the top in a matter of hours
• Validated: Hundreds of people vote on each image
• Unique: These aren’t your typical stock shots. Pixoto photographs are submitted by a community of over 100,000 professional and hobby photographers from around the world 

Happy Shooting!

Team Pixoto

Pixoto To Add Stock Photo Sales

After experiencing dramatic growth through their increasingly popular photography contest platform, Pixoto.com announces plans to add stock photo sales to their website.

 Boulder, CO (PRWEB) September 24, 2012 - Pixoto, the innovative online photography community, recently added the ability for its photographer members to add their photos to the upcoming Pixoto Stock Photo Service. The company has experienced explosive growth since its inception in 2011 and has attracted over 100,000 members due to its proprietary image ranking and voting system called ImageDuel. Pixoto is the first photo contest site that ranks every image submitted by an unbiased quality score.

Pixoto members now have the potential of earning money from their photos by simply checking a “License for Stock” box when uploading them to Pixoto. Pixoto members will earn a fee when designers, editors and marketers purchase and download their photos for use in their editorial and commercial works.

Pixoto Stock, through the use of its ImageDuel voting system, hopes to revolutionize micro-stock licensing for images. Pixoto believes that its ability to rank every image submitted gives them, and their members, several key advantages over traditional stock photo sites:

1. Crowd Validated: With the average top ranked image on Pixoto being voted on by over 100 unique people, buyers can be 100% confident that people love the photo
2. Faster Search: With Pixoto the best images show up first in every search result eliminating hours of paging through mediocre images
3. Fresher Images: An amazing stock photo submitted today will be on the top of the search results tomorrow
4. More variety: Anybody can be a stock photographer with Pixoto because the best images will always rise to the top so they will be able to source stock photos from a much broader audience

Pixoto’s photography contest system is completely innovative, leveling the playing field between participants, who can sign-up for free. Photographers submit images in preset categories such as wildlife, travel, architecture, and specific themes, etc., which are then matched against one another in side by side votes called ImageDuels. The results of the ImageDuels, which are completed by Pixoto members, are used to generate a proprietary ImageScore. The average image on Pixoto collects votes from 100 unique people.

Pixoto gives awards for the best photos in each category every day and its weekly contests have cash prizes. So far, the company has realized astonishing participation from players with over 1 million images already submitted and over 56 million votes cast to date. Pixoto’s ImageDuel system is particularly advantageous for photographers looking for artistic feedback from their peers, as well as the capacity to earn awards, enhancing their own business’s marketing potential.

With the addition of their upcoming stock photo sales to their photography contest arm, Pixoto will add yet another dimension to their increasingly robust presence as an online photography community. Serving artists and photographers alike, the expanded sales presence will reach the public at large, allowing for cross-fertilization of the company’s entire enterprise.

About Pixoto:
Founded in 2011 in Boulder, CO, Pixoto has quickly become the web’s leading photo contest site with more than 100,000 members in more than 150 counties and over 1 million images submitted. Pixoto’s revolutionary ImageDuel voting system aggregates millions of individual voter preferences to create “leaderboards” of the best images in the world. For additional information, please visit http://www.pixoto.com.