Photography Business: PicScout and PhotoShelter Partner to Assure that Every Photographer’s Image Gets Its Credit
Partnership gives photographers access to PicScout technology; provides a clear path to license PhotoShelter images no matter where they reside online
February 18, 2010 - New York, New York and Silicon Valley, California - PicScout, the worldwide standard for image credit, information, and commerce, and PhotoShelter, the leader in websites and online tools for serious photographers, today announced a partnership to automatically include PhotoShelter photographers’ images in the PicScout ImageIRC™ (index, registry and connection platform). This partnership gives individual photographers access to the same powerful PicScout technology used by major image libraries worldwide, enabling them to connect with more image buyers and ensure critical metadata remains accessible to image users anywhere online.
Universal Hip-Hop Emblem Launched Under Online Picscout Protection
After 30 years, Fifty Million-Strong User Culture Adopts an Emblem that Signifies a Culture, a Generation, and an Ideal for Hip-Hop
January 28, 2010 - Atlanta, Georgia and Silicon Valley, California - Hip-Hop Emblem, Inc. has announced the inauguration of the Hip-Hop Emblem, a universal symbol connecting everything Hip-Hop around the globe.
Image Source and Picscout Close Deal to Make New Content Available Through Picscout ImageExchange™
World’s Leading Independent Producer of Premium Royalty Free Images Soon to Become Available to ImageExchange™ Users
January 14, 2010 - Silicon Valley, Calif. and London, UK - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, enabler of client image monetization activities, and standard for image credit, today announces that they have reached agreement with Image Source, the world's leading producer of premium royalty free stock imagery, to add its entire collection of images to the PicScout platform to be visible and available to ImageExchange™ users.
Picscout Browser Add-on Allows Image Users to Easily Access and License Rights Managed, Royalty Free, Microstock and User Generated Images Wherever They’re Found
PicScout Adds Essential Content, Expanding ImageExchange™ Offering for any Image Buyer
December 8, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif. - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, enabler of client image monetization activities, and the standard for image credit, today announced that the entire Dreamstime collection of microstock images now can be viewed and immediately used by anyone participating in the ImageExchange™ beta – including creative and advertising professionals, corporate communications personnel, publishers, bloggers, students, and media. The add-on equips participants to see the universally recognized 
icon associated with images that have been identified by the company’s highly scalable fingerprinting technology as images that are available for immediate, legitimate use.
Luminary Joichi Ito Joins PicScout Board of Advisors
December 8, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif. - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, enabler of client image monetization activities, and standard for image credit, today announces that Joichi Ito has joined the company’s advisory board. Joichi Ito is among the most recognized names in Web technology. A co-founder and board member of Digital Garage and the CEO of Neoteny, Joi Ito is also CEO of Creative Commons.
Picscout ImageIRC™ Momentum Builds with Renowned Clients and Millions of Images Added for ImageExchange™ Users to See Ownership and Transact for Use
December 3, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif. - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, enabler of client image monetization activities, and emerging standard for image credit, today announces more worldwide support from North America and Europe for the company's newly launched enabling services platform and technical standard for image credit, which consists of indexing, registry and connection. Thirteen additional clients have added their images to ImageIRC™ to become part of the online image index where every image gets its credit™, and image users connect with image sellers to transact for image rights at the point of the user experience. With the new collections from the renowned group of photographers and image licensors, ImageIRC adds a diversity of new images that provide ImageExchange™ users the benefit of access to more images they can quickly and legitimately use at the point of their encounter.
PicScout Recognized among Fastest Growing Companies
Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50 2009 Ranks PicScout # 4
November 25, 2009 - Update: Deloitte EMEA Technology Fast 500 Ranks PicScout #44
November 1, 2009 - Tel Aviv, Israel - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services and enabler of client image monetization activities, today announces that the company has been ranked among the top 10 fastest growing technology companies of the 2009 Deloitte Israel Technology Fast 50. To determine that PicScout is among the fastest growing companies in Israel, Deloitte reviewed and calculated revenue growth percentages for fiscal year revenues over five years (2004-2008), comparing growth across all technology companies, and ranking PicScout number 4.
PLUS Coalition Names PicScout Exclusive Provider
PicScout Technology Enables Image Recognition for the PLUS Registry
October 15, 2009 - Silicon Valley and Pasadena, Calif - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services and enabler of client image monetization and identification activities, and PLUS Coalition, the international non-profit standards body to the image licensing industries, today announce that PicScout will be the exclusive image recognition services provider to the PLUS Registry, utilizing the PicScout ImageIRC.
PicScout Launches Invitational Beta For Image Exchange™ - Offers Creative And Corporate Communication Professionals, Graphic Designers, Ad Agency Personnel And Image Buyers Significant Creativity And Productivity Enhancements
Selected Beta Users First to Wield New Firefox Add-On to Access Online Images and Rights Directly with Stock Agencies and Licensors
October 13, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services and enabler of client image monetization activities, today announced an invitation-only beta test of its newest ImageIRC™ enabled product, ImageExchange™. Creative and corporate communication professionals, designers, and those who actively buy images are encouraged to register for one of the invitation openings to be part of the landmark industry image monetization event. Participants will be equipped with a Firefox add-on to expand their creative options, improve their productivity and select images that can be legally licensed, all while connecting with the stock agencies they already have relationships with as they can now access information about images online, see image rights, and transact in real time.
PicScout ImageIRC™ and ImageExchange™ Gain Industry-wide Support to Credit Images and Connect Owners and Users for Digital Rights
Tens of Millions of Images Indexed, Registered with Metadata, and Ready to Connect for Legitimate Transactions between Image Owners and Buyers
October 13, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services and enabler of client image monetization activities, today announces worldwide support from North America, Asia, and Europe for the company’s newly launched enabling services platform and suite of products to credit images and facilitate real-time transactions between buyers and sellers of images. The first group of agencies representing many thousands of photographers from around the world, leading trade organizations, and digital image rights groups acclaim and support PicScout ImageIRC™ and ImageExchange™ in a show of solidarity to assure that every image gets its credit.
Picscout Technology Supports Ubiquitous Online Image Accreditation And Transaction
OFFERS INDUSTRY-WIDE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPOSE EVERY LICENSABLE IMAGE WITH LICENSOR INFORMATION AT REAL-TIME POINT OF ENCOUNTER
Every Image Credited with Visible Source and Connected for Legitimate Use and/or Purchase
October 7, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services, today launched a services platform and a new product that enables client image monetization opportunities across the global landscape of the internet. For the first time, users of web-viewed images will be made immediately aware of images’ rightful owners or licensors and afforded an easy connection with them. PicScout is bringing both users and purveyors of images together online and on-the-fly to contract for legitimate image downloads for authorized usage on or offline.
Picscout Unveils Services Platform And Suite Of Products To Enable Online Image Transactions For Users And Licensors
PicScout ImageIRC™ Services Platform Equips ImageExchange™ to Identify, Credit and Connect for immediate Legitimate Use of Every Image
October 7, 2009 - Silicon Valley, Calif - PicScout, the market leader in worldwide image services and enabler of client image monetization activities, today announced a strategic shift from a single source product company to a services company based upon the PicScout ImageIRC™. ImageIRC serves as a fingerprinting index, metadata registry and API connection platform for agencies and image license holders. The services platform further positions the company to announce the launch of a new product, ImageExchange™, which provides the connection between buyers of images and licensors. Specifically, the ImageExchange allows web-viewed images to be identified, credited for use and/or purchase, and routed to the licensor for immediate transaction, launching a ubiquitous connection between buyers and licensors.
PicScout Appoints Boaz Levin as Head of Product
September 10, 2009 - Silicon Valley, CA, and Herzliya, Israel - PicScout™, the market leader in worldwide image services, has appointed Boaz Levin as Head of Product. Mr. Levin will assume global responsibilities for the company’s product management with specific focus on the company’s expanding suite of services and products to meet the needs of the company’s expanding customer base.
PicScout Appoints Amy Love as VP of Marketing and Business Development
September 2, 2009 - Silicon Valley, CA - PicScout™, the market leader in worldwide image services, has appointed Amy Love as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Ms Love will assume global responsibilities and oversee all US operations. Ms Love brings a wealth of functional marketing, business development, operations and strategic leadership experience to the swiftly growing company.
ImageSpan and PicScout Team to Deliver Best-in-Class Image Licensing and Tracking Solutions Creating Improved Revenues for LicenseStream Subscribers
Joint ImageSpan-PicScout Service Allows LicenseStream Subscribers to Immediately Monetize Their Content, and Gain Incremental Value from Content Distributed across the Web.
April 2, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media , and PicScout, a market-leading image copyright service provider to the digital content industry, today announced that they are partnering to deliver a best-in-class image licensing and tracking service to help LicenseStream subscribers immediately monetize content found by PicScout and obtain more value from that content as it gets published across the Web. The announcement was made at the Web 2.0 Expo.
SuperStock Chooses PicScout’s Image Tracker Solution
March 24, 2009 - Herzeliya, Israel - SuperStock, under the new ownership of RGB Ventures LLC., a collaboration of Rubberball, Glow Images, and Blend Images, has chosen PicScout's market leading image tracking solution, Image Tracker, to protect their artists rights and to be part of PicScout's Image Registry solution.
Offir Gutelzon to speak at ABA Conference
March 5, 2009 - Herzeliya, Israel - Offir Gutelzon has been invited to speak at the American Bar Association's Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on April 1st in Arlington, VA, USA.
Offir Gutelzon is Invited to Speak at Digital Innovators Summit
February 19, 2009 - Herzeliya, Israel - Offir Gutelzon, CEO of PicScout has been invited to speak at the Digital Innovators Summit in Berlin Germany on March 3rd, 2009 as an innovative company in the area of Content and Search. Offir will talk about how PicScout's Image Tracking Solution: Image Tracker helps image owners protect their copyrighted images on the web and in print media.
PicScout’s Offir Gutelzon Promoted to CEO
February 16, 2009 - Herzliya, Israel - Offir Gutelzon was appointed to be PicScout’s CEO. Gutelzon is a co-founder of PicScout and in his previous position as General Manager led the company’s development and implementation of the leading image recognition solution Image Tracker™.
PicScout Announces Their First New Customer for 2009
NordicPhotos, one of the largest photo agencies in the Nordics
February 5, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PicScout announced their first new customer for 2009, NordicPhotos of Stockholm, Sweden. NordicPhotos is an online photo agency that sells rights based photography from the Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
PicScout Appoints Jeff Downey to Head up Sales and Business Development
January 1, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - Jeff Downey, a 20 year veteran of the photo industry, has joined the PicScout team as the Director of Sales and Business Development.
PicScout Chosen to Testify before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property at a Hearing on Orphan Works Legislation
March 30, 2008 - Herzeliya, Israel - PicScout Chosen to Testify before the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property at a Hearing on Orphan Works Legislation