US based Dreamstime.com have joined forces with Korean based ImageClick to produce a new source of photo images available to the Korean market through a newly established website.
www.i22.com
From the Press Release:
(BRENTWOOD, Tennessee)--Dreamstime.com, a global community-based stock photography distributor and prominent leader in the microstock industry, has announced yet another pioneering venture that will prove further enhance international exposure for its gallery of nearly 3 Million stock photos and illustrations. Dreamstime has entered into an exclusive partnership with the Korean agency ImageClick
(http://www.imageclick.com) to make professional quality photo images readily available to the Korean market.
To introduce and acquaint the Korean public to the advantages of the Dreamstime microstock community, ImageClick will launch its own exclusive brand (exhibiting the entire Dreamstime library) through a newly established website--www.i22.com.
Designed specifically to make Dreamstime images and services available to its users in Korea, www.i22.com visitors will be able to quickly and efficiently navigate and search Dreamstime content, for the first time, in their native language. Making the photo shopping experience simplistic, ImageClick will effectively apply its extensive industry knowledge and research to ensure a productive search function with desirable results to assist in the client’s creativity.
This partnership will enable Dreamstime to gain additional traction in Korea thus broadening its service range and overall content while enhancing ImageClick’s opportunities to cater to an ever-changing and growing market.
"This is a rich target market for microstock," said Serban Enache, CEO and co-creator of Dreamstime. “Partnering with ImageClick provides us access to a clientele that might not otherwise have been extended the opportunity to take advantage of this easy and accommodating service at an affordable price.”
Established in 2000, ImageClick was Korea's very first online stock library. Voted the favorite image library just seven short years later (by Koren graphic designers--2007), ImageClick is now one of the country’s top three image libraries today. The site features images from more than 200 local photographers including carefully composed in-studio sessions and distinguished collections as provided by various creative partners across the globe.
“We believe that ImageClick's experience combined with Dreamstime's technical savvy, support and content will lead to superlative success in expanding the image market to the microstock community,” says Sungsoo Kim, CEO, ImageClick. “As one of leading image stock libraries in Korea, our goal is to keep the momentum and continue to broaden our services overall while providing unequalled images at affordable prices. Working with Dreamstime to branch into the microstock market will do just that thus creating more opportunities for new and existing clients as well as photographers. I am confident this joint venture will be fortuitous.”
“ImageClick’s experience and vast local knowledge is paramount in Korea and it is for that very reason, Dreamstime partners with elite agencies such as ImageClick,” adds Enache. “Now, not only will Dreamstime introduce its services to a new audience, this alliance will enable us to better serve the existing client base in the Korean market. This affiliation is revolutionary for an established microstock agency such as ours."
Revolutionizing the relationship between the traditional distributors and microstock collections, the alliance with ImageClick follows Dreamstime's strategic positioning efforts with similar online portals and localized world-class providers such as Brightqube, Stockvault, Openphoto and Picfindr. Through these established and profitable ventures, Dreamstime's contributors (who already earn the best revenue per image in the microstock industry) receive optimum exposure for their stock imagery.
With the success of this contributor-level and outside-the-box alliance strategies, Dreamstime has experienced its most notable growth rate to date. Within the last six months, the increased collection exposure has nearly doubled its own traffic of more than 160,000 unique visitors who browse the site daily.
Dreamstime is one of the most popular stock photography agencies in the world. With now just over 2.7 million images and a current growth rate of two million images per year, Dreamstime has the distinction of offering the best-edited collection of images in the microstock industry, and some are ABSOLUTELY FREE! Make photo shopping a virtual and visual experience, visit www.dreamstime.com.
Posted by Will Carleton