NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ — Fotolia (http://www.fotolia.com), the largest online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images, announced today a partnership agreement with pingg.com, a new online invitation and event management Web site.
The partnership integrates Fotolia’s collection of nearly 4 million images directly into the pingg platform and seamlessly powers the pingg Plus+ application. The API is integrated into the site allowing users to license an image from the Fotolia database for a fee directly through the pingg site.
pingg Plus+ provides consumers a truly unique opportunity to design fully customized online and print invitations. Hosts can search for then select a unique image from the Fotolia collection. Once an image is chosen, a host can utilize cropping and layout tools to further customize their online and/or print invitations.
“This partnership grants pingg’s users on-demand access to our database of high-quality stock images and gives Fotolia the ability to further expand our offerings through strategic partnerships with innovative Web companies,” says Oleg Tscheltzoff, co-founder and president of Fotolia, LLC. “Fotolia’s image collection will give pingg users deeply integrated access to images for use in their custom invitations.”
Our Business API allows partners to integrate and offer Fotolia services to their customers. This is an ideal solution for companies who want to produce customized on demand items for their clients in an automated fashion.
“Fotolia has built an incredible collection of high-quality images. Partnering with them,” stated Lorien Gabel, Co-Founder/CEO of pingg, “enables us to offer the pingg consumer the widest selection of images anywhere for designing and personalizing their online and print invitations.”
About Fotolia
Fotolia, LLC, based in New York, with offices in nine countries around the globe and offering Web sites in eight languages, is the world’s largest provider of micro-priced stock images. Launched in early November, 2005, Fotolia’s image marketplace has acquired more than 3.7 million images in its database and nearly 700,000 international members. In December, 2007, Fotolia became the first independent microstock agency to enter the traditional stock marketplace, with the launch of Fotolia Infinite Collections. For more information about the company or to access the Fotolia Web site, visit http://www.fotolia.com
About Pingg.com
Based in New York, pingg.com was launched in March ’08 by brothers Lorien Gabel and Matt Harrop. Lorien and Matt are CEO and CTO respectively. Their third business venture together, pingg.com is a new, free online invitation and event management platform that lets image conscious hosts seamlessly create, send and manage stylish online and print invitations from one platform and then follow-up via email, SMS, web and Facebook. The platform also features advanced list management and reporting tools, gift/charity registries and more. For additional information, visit pingg.com.
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Fotolia is NOT the world’s largest provider of micro-priced stock images. I believe Shutterstock is trumping Fotolia by over a million images. I have notice Fotolia loves to toot its own horn in this way. They have no problem stating “Simply the best deal for stock photos, EVER!” on their web site home page. A classic example of a companies wishful thinking. They are notorious around the world for being lousy to their paying customers and a bum deal with their photographers. Chose them at your own risk.