Showing posts with label YAY Micro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YAY Micro. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
YAY Images announced new partners
Monday, December 17, 2012
YAY Images Releases iPad App
The app features an advanced search, including color search, making it easy for users to find the perfect image for their project. Images can be added to a project folder, and the folders syncs automatically with the main site yaymicro.com. The app also supports in-app purchases, allowing users to download images directly to their iPad. The images are downloaded to your photo folder and ready to be used in your Keynote presentation, design or other document.
“It’s never been easier to use images in your iPad-projects. One click and the image is ready for your presentation or design project,” says YAY’s CTO Bjorn Sjogren.
Key Features:
- Keyword Search
- Color Search
- Made for Retina Display
- Project Folders / Lightboxes
- In-App Purchase
- Direct Download
- Royalty Free License
- Low Prices from XYZXYZ
- Works with Keynotes and other apps
To develop innovative mobile platform solutions YAY has partnered with PGS Software, and their first collaborative release is this iPad app. Several other releases are planned in the future. YAY is one of the world’s leading image agencies, with over three million royalty free images. Located in Oslo, Norway, YAY aims to be a world-leading provider of images and image technology.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
YAY Micro Newsletter Update
YAY Micro has recently launched their new API! An API makes it possible for other image agencies to sell YAY's images on their own site. YAY Micro is working on an opt-out option, and it should be in place in app. two weeks.
Currently two partners are in the process of implementing YAY Micro's API. The commission is as it is on their site - you get 50% of what YAY Micro is getting on all single image sales! Currently they don't offer subscription on Their API.
Color Search (beta)
Now you can search by color at YAY! Using their advanced search options you can now search by color, and combine this search with other search features. Click one time on a color to search for it, click two times to exclude a color.
Try it yourself – ex. Spring and color “green”.
New Strategic Affiliate Partner
YAY Micro is happy to announce a new strategic affiliate partnership with EuroCreon in South Korea!
EuroCreon will sell and promote YAY’s images in South Korea. Commission will be the same as for sales done on yaymicro.com: 50% commission on all single sales and €1 (app. $1.3) for subscription downloads.
Affiliate: 20% commission – forever
YAY Micro's new affiliate program gives you a 20% commission on all direct referrals – forever. In addition you’ll get a 5% commission on all your referred people’s referrals.
YAY Micro offers individual bonus code, ready-made referral links on all pages, tracking and much more!
Read more and get started!
Like to Boost!
Promote your images on Facebook – and get a boost in YAY Micro's search!
They have added a “Like” button under each preview image. If somebody likes your image - others might as well! Therefore all images with “likes” will be boosted in YAY Micro's search. The more “likes” your image get, the more it gets boosted. Get your friends to help you promote your images!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Open Source Microstock Agency: How Stock Photo Agency YayMicro.com was Created Using Only Open Source Technology
Oslo (PRWEB) September 6, 2010 - With little resources, but lot’s of faith, energy and a common belief in how a microstock agency should be made, three entrepreneurs all quit their job at a leading stock agency, and started creating low price photo agency http://yaymicro.com from scratch.
They literally had nothing: No founding, no code, no stock photos. Today http://yaymicro.com features more than one million stock photos and is commonly regarded as the easiest to use microstock agency. This is a fairy tale story showing how far the open source community has come, and how you can create something out of nothing if you just believe.
Microstock photography is an offshoot of traditional stock photo agencies. Microstock companies source their images via the Internet from a wide range of photographers, and customers can buy the stock photos at a very low price compared to traditional stock photo agencies. At YayMicro.com anyone can register as a photographer, upload their pictures and, if the photos are approved by YayMicro’s reviewers, sell them to customers around the world. When an image is bought through the website, the photographer receives 50% in commission. In contrast to traditional stock agencies, licensing rights at YayMicro is super simple. YayMicro offers a Royalty Free license that gives the customer permission to use an image on anything the customer want, as many times as he wants, for as long as he wants. The only limitation is on reselling rights, which can also be bought, but at a higher price.
Since resources were scarce, and software is expensive, the people at YayMicro were pretty much forced to look at free alternatives for anything they did. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Apple were out the window. Instead, every piece of technology was chosen from the open source community.
Here is the technology http://yaymicro.com was built on:
Operating System - CentOS
The enterprise-class linux distribution was chosen because it has proven to be one of the most reliable and stable distributions. It’s one of the most popular server distributions, meaning it is easy to find solutions and support online. YayMicro is currently running CentOS release 5.5 (Final) that was released in May this year.
CentOS was an easy choice for Yay, since the developers had experience from RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). The community around CentOS provides the support needed, and the functionality is just as good as RHEL. In fact, CentOS can be regarded as the free edition of the same software that makes Red Hat an enterprise solution. It is incredibly stable, efficient, and secure. It provides the same level of security as other enterprise Linux versions. All updates also coincides with a release of RH, ensuring consistent compatibility.
Database Management System - PostgresSQL
Obviously, for a microstock agency with millions of images, selecting the right DBMS is crucial. There were two clear alternatives YayMicro had to choose between; mySQL and PostgresSQL. Traditionally mySQL has been assumed to be faster, but less full-featured than PostgresSQL. However, this assumption is to a high extent based on history and old stereotypes, and for the most part outdated. PostgresSQL has become much faster recent years, while mySQL has implemented many functionalities in its last releases.
Both PostgresSQL and mySQL have their own loyal supporters, focusing on advantages in their system while talking mostly about faults and problems with the other. In the end both systems are excellent systems, and both would probably have been good choices for Yay. The choice might have come down to two factors that might or might not have been correct.
First, PostgresSQL have a rumor for scaling better with large amounts of data. This was hard to test initially, but with millions of millions of records, the database is still super responsive, even at high concurrency levels. Secondly it might have factored in that YayMicro felt PostgresSQL was the more “open” of the two open source systems, a belief that was somewhat “confirmed” in 2009 when Oracle bought mySQL.
Search Engine - Apache Solr
One of the most important aspects of a successful stock photo agency is a good search engine. If users can’t find their picture in seconds, they’ll go somewhere else. Technically, searches could be done straight to the PostgresSQL database, but even though it’s super fast, it’s nowhere near what YayMicro needed. Consider this; each image is tagged with 50 keywords, the database holds more than a million images. Each search should take into account the relevancy of search phrase, orientation of images, how many people is in the picture, country of image, explicit images and categories. It should return a ranked list of a search, giving you exactly result from 350 to 400 if that is what you ask for. Consider thousands of people searching the website for images at the same time. Apache Solr is up for it.
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Background Information:
http://yaymicro.com is an online stock photo marketplace where photographers around the world can sell their stock photos, and customers can buy stock photos. YayMicro offer over 1 million Royalty Free stock photos and illustrations in their image base. The low prices starts at $1.50. The low price list: http://yaymicro.com/view.action?page=prices_images_subscriptions_american
The site is available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch and Norwegian. Japanese, German, French, Danish and Swedish are available as search languages.
YayMicro is located in Oslo, Norway. Jan Ole Kjellesvig and Linda Johannessen, both former employees Scandinavia’s largest image agency, founded YAY in 2008; Bjorn Sjogren joined the team as partner and CTO in January 2009
Friday, August 20, 2010
New Options for Buying Stock Photos - Now You Can Buy Stock Photos from Image Agency YayMicro.com in Spanish and Dutch
Oslo Norway (PRWEB) August 19, 2010 - "Manage globally, sell locally" is a well-known and popular business philosophy adapted by the low price stock photo agency YayMicro.com.
"Our goal is to make it as easy as possible to buy low price stock photos. You don't want to translate words or spend time figuring out how to buy a stock photo. At our stock photo agency you can buy images in 1-2-3 using your native tongue."
A crucial localization goal for stock photo agency YayMicro has been to reach people in their native tongue.
“We are proud to have the top three languages: Chinese, Spanish and English at our stock photo agency. In addition we have smaller languages as Dutch and Norwegian". Research and experience suggest that people prefer to use a stock photo site in their own language. YayMicro.com will release several more languages the next year, continuing the global expansion, but keeping the stock photo buying experience localized for the end-user.
At YaYMicro the focus is on usability for the customers. "You don't want to spend your time translating search terms for stock photos, as a customer all you want is for it to be easy and cheap buy high quality stock photos.
YayMicro.com is an online stock photo marketplace where photographers around the world can sell their stock photos directly to stock photo customers. YAY offer over 1 million Royalty Free stock photos and illustrations. Prices start at $1.50. The site is available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch and Norwegian. Japanese, German, French, Danish and Swedish are available as search languages.
YAY is located in Oslo, Norway. Jan Ole Kjellesvig and Linda Johannessen, both former employees Scandinavia’s largest image agency, founded YAY in 2008; Bjorn Sjogren joined the team as partner and CTO in January 2009
Friday, August 6, 2010
Image Agency YayMicro.com Reaches 1 Million Royalty Free Images; Take a Look at no. 1 Million!
Image: © Stephanie Frey / yaymicro.com
Oslo, Norway. August 6, 2010 - Congratulations to Image No. 1 million taken by the American photographer Stephanie Frey! As you can see it’s an image of a beautiful young girl.
"We are proud and excited that our photographers have 1 million images for sale at yaymicro.com. Combined with our low prices this is something our customers appreciate when buying photos and illustrations”, says CEO Linda L. Johannessen.
Although photographers retain ownership rights to their images, there are huge advantages in a large image base. It is common for agencies to rely on other agencies to supply them with the main bulk of images. Few agencies have their own large image database, making YAY one of the largest image agencies in the world. This provides customers with a good and varied selection of high quality images. The variation in the images attracts a wide range of customers – such as newspapers, magazines, blogs, printing, publishing, advertising agencies and other image agencies.
When http://yaymicro.com opened, it did so with a strong focus on user-friendly technology and a positive attitude and interest in social media. "We have joined in on so many interesting and helpful discussions! The people we work with are very knowledgeable; we have received lots of suggestions, tips, advice and resources from the photographer community. There is a professional and friendly network available to anyone interested in buying, selling and usage of Royalty Free and editorial images. We also have our own image blog," says co-founder Jan Ole Kjellesvig.
"Easy to use technology is a cornerstone for us and, together with social media, has given us a head start on many of our competitors," adds CTO Oddbjørn Sjøgren.
YAY is experiencing a strong growth in new customers and expects to multiply sales in 2010.
Take a look at more photos from Stephanie, or visit our Category page for the other 999.999 images.
About YAY Micro
YayMicro.com is an online marketplace where photographers around the world can sell their images directly to customers. YAY offer over 1 million Royalty Free images and illustrations, prices start at $1.50. The site is available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch and Norwegian. Japanese, German, French, Danish and Swedish are available as search languages.
YAY is located in Oslo, Norway. Jan Ole Kjellesvig and Linda Johannessen, both former employees at Scanpix- Scandinavia’s largest image agency, founded YAY in 2008; Oddbhjørn Sjøgren joined the team as partner and CTO in January 2009.
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About YAY YAY Media AS, Malmogata 7, N-0556 OSLO, NORWAY
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