PantherMedia Now With Rights Managed And New Platform PantherStock

Panthermedia send out today an email to their contributors with the two top topics:

- New Rights-Managed Licenses
- Introducing our new international platform PantherStock

PantherMedia is on the move! 

New Rights-Managed Licenses

As you know, PantherMedia is already working with a lot of partners with new business models, e.g. printing poster on demand.
 

This part of our business (special licenses) has increased tremendously over the last months. Hence, we introduce "Rights-Managed Licenses". This enables us to licenses and fees on a case-to-case basis to expand our huge network of partners. 

You can read further info on this license model and what it means for you as a photographer on our RM overview page.

RM Licenses are optional. You can activate or deactivate these licenses in the contributor portal at "Policy Management". Per definition, rights managed licenses are activated. Please decide within the coming 14 days.

We expect further growth be selling RM images within our network of distributors and by winning new partners for exciting new ways to use images.

Your commission per downloaded image is analogue to your commission scheme at PantherMedia single image purchase.

• Read more in RM Overview page!
• Activate RM in Policy Management!
• See commission overview!

Introducing our new international platform PantherStock

Focused on customers with a regular need for images, we proudly introduce our new subscription platform: pantherstock.com.

This platform is currently in Beta and available in 4 languages – German, English, Spanish and Portugese. The terms and conditions for customers as well as for contributors are the same on panthermedia.net and pantherstock.com.

PantherStock impresses with a simple way to buy images, sleek design. Professional search filters and a broad selection of high-class imagery. All images opted-in for the PantherMedia subscription are integrated into pantherstock.com.

• Discover PantherStock!
• See commission overview!

Image Packages

Also new and in beta on pantherstock.com: image packages. This new product works like this: Customers puchase a package of images in Web or XXL resolution for a fixed price and can download these images with in one year. 

Your commission per downloaded image is analogue to your commission scheme at PantherMedia single image purchase.

• See commission overview!

Storage online

Hurray, we have now implemented our new storage. All images are online again: reliable, infinitely scalable and much faster! There is plenty of space for your new images. Start to upload all of your images now!

• Upload now!

Tax adjustment for international photographers

We had to modify the payout for our international photographers. PantherMedia has to deduct a general income tax at 15% for all international photographers outside of Germany (§15a German Income Tax Act). Based upon the Double Tax Treaty between Germany and your respective country, you do not have to pay additional income tax in your country. 

Please note: This income tax has nothing to do with VAT. All private people, as well as companies have to pay this tax in Germany. For additional info, please have a look at the Double Tax Treaty between Germany and your country or refer to your tax consultant.

• See Commission overview!

Leading German stockagency PantherMedia launches its Italian website with more than 15 million royalty free images

•    Sales team based in Milan office
•    More than 300.000 new images per month from more than 40.000 photographers
•    Three easy ways to buy: on invoice, prepaid-credits or subscription
•    Extended licences for additional licence rights
•    PantherMedia gives away 1.000 free images

Munich, 09th March 2012 – PantherMedia launches its Italian website with an own sales team in the office based in Milan. With 8 years of experience and an archive exceeding 15 million images, including vector graphics and illustrations, PantherMedia is one of the leading European royalty free agencies. Image search has never been easier with a comprehensive search function.

Compared to traditional agencies, PantherMedia sources images directly from stock photographers and can therefore offer high quality images at a very competitive price starting at 0,17 Euro per image. With an average of 300.000 new images every month PantherMedia is the best way to keep up with every lifestyle trend. More then 40.000 photographers from 120 countries give an unique international touch to the PantherMedia archive.

PantherMedia is like no other company in Italy offering three flexible ways to licence images. Purchase on invoice, per Credits or within a subscription.

Purchase on Invoice: Just like in every online shop, customers can put images in the shopping cart and can download images immediately. Payment can be done via bank transfer, credit card or paypal. Prices start at 1,90 Euro net per image.

Credits: PantherMedia also offers Credits. They work like a prepaid account. It’s possible to download images until the account runs out. Purchased credits do not expire. Prices are starting from 0,80 Euro net per image.

Subscription: The third possibility to buy is the subscription. It is possible to choose between 100 and 750 images per month, without a daily download limit! Prices starting from 0,17 Euro net per image.

All images are unlimited in time, print-run and geographical distribution and can be used in all different kind of media at the same time. For additional rights, e.g. the right to print images on merchandising products like calendars, PantherMedia offers extended licence rights starting at 20 Euro per image.

Furthermore, there is a special offer for all new members of PantherMedia Italy in the first month: All Italian users who register in March take part in the raffle to win 10 images for free. PantherMedia gives away a total of 1.000 free images.

Starting on the first of March, a sales team will support all customers free of charge at +39 392 9974033.

About PantherMedia
panthermedia.net is one of the leading microstock agencies worldwide. More than 40.000 photographers add more than 15.000 images to the portfolio of currently more than 15 million royalty free images. The customers can license and download images in one of the following ways: purchase on invoice, purchase with credits and image subscription. Licenses are charged from less than one Euro. PantherMedia.net is an enterprise of PantherMedia GmbH with headquarters in Munich, Germany and was founded in October 2004.

PantherMedia Stockagency: Re-Launch with 13 million royalty free images, fresh design and new products

• More than 10 million royalty free images added, as single images and within subscriptions
• Additional offer of vectors and illustrations in eps-format
• New extended rights for templates and merchandising products
• Redesign of the homepage, image preview and the navigation to improve usability

Munich, 21st November 2011 – The microstock agency PantherMedia unveils its new platform with more than 13 million images and a completely new face. All new images can be purchased on invoice, per credits or within a subscription. Thus, PantherMedia becomes one of the largest providers of royalty free images and image subscriptions worldwide.

In addition to this massive image upgrade, PantherMedia adds vectors and illustrations in eps-format to the product portfolio.

The extended licence model has been rebuilt. The customer can now pick & mix from four extended rights instead of paying too much for rights he does not need, or simply buy the all-in-one package for all extended rights. These four different extended rights are: the right to distribute images as part of press releases, the right to use the images in multiple, but affiliated companies of a corporation, the right to use images on commercial merchandising products and finally the right to use images within templates, such as web- or email-templates.

The website of PantherMedia got a complete facelift and new functions to find the perfect image faster in an even greater archive. Therefore, the navigation has been completely restructured, giving the customer an clear overview of his account, including the purchased credits, the subscription downloads and the amount of images in his shopping cart and in the lightboxes. The image preview has been restructured helping the customer to proceed his search or downloading the image instantly.

All in all, PantherMedia not only added 10 million new images to the portfolio of 13 million images, but also managed to faciliate and speed-up the search and the download of royalty free images at the same time.

About PantherMedia
panthermedia.net is one of the leading microstock agencies worldwide. More than 40.000 photographers add more than 15.000 images to the portfolio of currently more than 13 million royalty free images. The customers can license and download images in one of the following ways: purchase on invoice, purchase with credits and image subscription. Licenses are charged from less than one Euro. PantherMedia.net is an enterprise of PantherMedia GmbH with headquarters in Munich, Germany and was founded in October 2004.

PantherMedia launches a new contributor portal that sets a new standard for the image submission process

The microstock agency PantherMedia offers a new standard in image submission, allowing for multiple image submissions simultaneously and time savings to the busy photographer


Munich, February 21, 2011
Today, PantherMedia (http://www.panthermedia.net) launches its new contributor portal for photographers. It features a brand new image submission system featuring easy administration for portfolios and accounts. 

Photographers, who want to sell their photos online, can now upload their photographs fast and easy using PantherMedia’s new contributor portal. One of the key features of this new system is batch processing which allows the photographer to upload and submit multiple images at the same time. Contributors are offered the choice between web-upload or FTP.


Fast Uploads, Fast Tagging and Multi-Image Processing
Mandatory information like keywords, model releases and legal information is usually tagged image by image with most uploads to microstock agencies. PantherMedia has now simplified this task with the capability to apply these tags to multiple images at the same time with just one click. This saves a lot of time, especially when uploading a series of images. This new batch uploading and editing feature reduces this otherwise tedious task to only one to two minutes for a single image and less than a minute per image for a whole series.

“By working very closely with international top contributors, we have identified the needs of our contributors and the weaknesses of current systems. We have set a new standard with our new contributor portal,” said Peter Ammel, PantherMedia’s CTO.

Additionally, PantherMedia introduces new functions to its image management system for easier and faster administration. Contributors can sort and filter images by date, submission and approval status. These features supplement a new model and property release interface. That interface allows users to add age, gender and ethnicity information for each model, improving submission time while improving the search function for international customers.

Photographer Endorsed
Yuri Arcurs, the world's top-selling microstock photographer, enthuses, "good job Panthers! Excellent new features, fresh design and highly user-friendly. I especially like the filters option."

Uploading thousands of images at one time, top photographer Sean Prior was enthusiastic: “The new PantherMedia submission portal is really quick and easy to use. The selection process is really fast as you can batch a select number of items at the same time, making batch submissions very manageable.” “The interface is quick and easy for anyone to learn. We are saving a huge amount of time in submitting which allows us to get out and shoot more,“ he said.

Main new features - Overview:

• Batch processing allows the upload and submission of multiple images in one simple step.
• IPTC-import of titles and keywords through HTML- and FTP-upload.
• Less mandatory fields allow a faster upload process.
• Import of all or only selected images from the photographers´ FTP-directory into the contributor portal.
• Upload of up to five images simultaneously per HTML-Upload and unlimited images per FTP.
• New and easier model release and property release management area for editing property and model details (name, age, ethnicity, etc.).
• Many innovative search- and filter functions allow a better management of the portfolio: search for pending, accepted, resubmitted and rejected images.
• Optional presets to enable easy assignment of rights.
• Overview of up to 100 images per page possible, optional with different thumb sizes.
• More support for web browsers of the major operating systems with the look-and-feel of a local application, and a faster performance.
• All main administrative functions on one portal (upload, administration, accounting, payout, statistics, etc.)

Testimonials:

• Lee Torrens, owner of microstockdiaries: "PantherMedia's new submission process is super-quick and well structured. It's exactly what serious microstock contributors need to minimize their distribution costs. It's now among the best in the industry."
• Tyler Olsen, owner of the microstockgroup: "The new tool looks great and makes processing and submitting your images very speedy. Their batch edit function is a very welcomed (and essential) feature."
• Robert Kneschke, microstock-author and photographer: "The submission of new images, especially series of images, is very fast and intuitive".

Links:

• Contributor Portal: http://contributor.panthermedia.net
• Information for photographers: http://www.panthermedia.net?contributor

About PantherMedia
Panthermedia.net is an online marketplace for royalty-free photography, bringing buyers and sellers together on a common platform divided into a photocommunity for photographers and a stock agency for art 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, image reviewers choose adequate images for the stock agency. Agencies, publishing houses and enterprises that need images can license images 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 40,000 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 1.5 million images worldwide directly and via an international network of over 90 distribution partners in 40 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.

Microstock Agency PantherMedia Launches Video Competition 2010

Photo- and videographers of the stock agency and free photocommunity PantherMedia can contribute online-videos to the video contest “moving images” and can win great prizes until end of October 2010. 

Munich, July 15th, 2010 - Panther Media, the largest original German microstock agency with millions of royalty-free - images, illustrations and a lively photo community, launches the video contest "moving images". With that contest, PantherMedia picks up a future trend in the stock and advertising market towards online videos. The community is looking for the most creative, interesting, funny or reflective videos that are based on the common interest of the community members: photography.
Panther Media users are invited to contribute their videos until the end of October. The videos are published on the PantherMedia-YouTube-Channel. Selected clips are also published in the company's blog. The winners are voted in early November. The score is based upon the views and the clicked “like”-buttons per video.

More than twenty great prizes can be won: photo equipment by Enjoy Your Camera, professional software by NIK Software and vouchers by FineArtPrint.de.

"Photo- and videographers of our community can now express their creativity based on the new medium videography", explains Robert Walters, co-founder and CEO of Panther Media. "Stock photography is now entering a new phase with the demand for online videos. This way, we prepare our business for this new trend. However, this video contest is all about fun! The videos are not sold."

Links
Blog: http://www.panthermedia.net?video
PantherMedia YouTube-Channel: http://www.panthermedia.net/?youtube
Homepage: http://www.panthermedia.net

About Panther Media / media data:
PantherMedia is a marketplace for royalty free (RF) photography. Suppliers as well as buyers of commercial and editorial imagery meet on one platform separated in a photocommunity for photographers and a stock agency for image buyers. Agencies, publishing houses, designers, bloggers and enterprises can license stock photos easily and flexible for less than one Euro. The purchase of images is possible on invoice, via credits or within a subscription model. PantherMedia.net is an enterprise of PantherMedia GmbH with headquarters in Munich, Germany and was founded in October 2004. At present, PantherMedia offers millions of images produced by more than 30,000 photographers.

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.

Microstock Agency PantherMedia introduces New Website with Fresh Ideas

Image buyers and designers can now choose their favorite background design

Munich, January 26, 2010. PantherMedia, the leading and rapidly growing marketplace for Royalty-Free photography with over one million images, illustrations and a vibrant photocommunity, today introduces its new website with innovative design and many new features, creating an
unique shopping experience for image buyers. The innovations are:

• Design:
o An optimized design und harmonized fonts for a higher clearness enabling customers, image buyers and designers to find quickly and easy the images they need.
o New clearly arranged start page showing all price models at a glance.
o Unique in the market: image buyers can now switch between a white-grey and a more dark background design of the website to create their own favored design for their working purposes.

• Improved Navigation:
o The new site navigation supports an optimized usability, reduces the daily workload and saves the valuable time of images buyers and designers. They can now use the new enlarged and centered search box in a separate menu bar for their image searches.
o The new site navigation to further information can be found at the bottom of the website, together with links to Facebook, Twitter, etc.; daily used menu items (shopping cart, lightbox, MyPanther) are right at the top of the website.

• Improved Search:
o Faster Search and page-flipping thanks to cache technology.
o The Extended Search and the Category Search can be displayed according to requirements of image buyers and designers.
o When searching for images customers can select how many information about and around the images will be displayed in search results (thumbnails only/thumbnails together with few information/thumbnails together with all information) for further customizing the design of search results according to their requirements.

• More Display Options:
o The number of images displayed in search results can easily be customized. Flipping through the pages is way faster for a quick overview on images than scrolling up and down.
o The mouse-over-image feature displays all desired image-relevant information and buttons.
o In the preview modus of an image similar images from the same photographer are displayed automatically under the specific image for a full overview on the series of images resp. similar images from other photographers. Image buyers can also start a search for images with similar colors and for images with the same model.

• New Features:
o Image buyers can now distribute their lightboxes for sharing purposes via a link ("public URL") to other recipients which do not need to be logged in for viewing these images. Simply the best way to quickly show their own customers which images were selected for the assignment.

Starting in spring 2010 the new feature Search History will be availabe. Customers will be able to see on which images they have clicked and which they have enlarged during their past searches to find their desired images more easily.

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.

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 (GERMANY), 24th NOVEMBER 2009 - (CEPIC) - PantherMedia, 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 (http://bit.ly/6ArRYE).


About PantherMedia:

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. 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."