New York, NY – August 26, 2008 – Fotolia, one of the world’s leading sources for legal, low-cost imagery welcomes its four millionth image, titled “Hot Air Balloon” and uploaded by Christopher Völlmya, a Fotolia contributor from Switzerland.

New York/London, August 6, 2008 – Fotolia, the largest global online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images (www.fotolia.co.uk), launches a corporate subscription-based offering that will give users four tiers of Subscription access to its image library of nearly 4 million stock images. Image prices now start from 9p.

Corporations wishing to enroll in the Subscription service will be able to tie unlimited user IDs to a central account, which will make media purchases and itemisation much more efficient. Through a central account, multiple users will also be able to access a central bank of Credits for media purchases, without the need for an accounting department to monitor remaining Credits on multiple accounts.

New York/London, June 18th, 2008. – Fotolia, the largest online marketplace for micro-priced digital stock images, is offering a new Application Programming Interface (API), allowing a closer integration of its affiliates. Using the new Reseller API everyone can operate their own microstock agency in the country and language of their choice, selling Fotolia images under their own name.

New York/Berlin, June 3rd, 2008. Fotolia, the world´s biggest microstock agency (www.fotolia.co.uk) launches a simple and inexpensive Subscription service that allows members to download up to 25 images (size L) each day, with no Credit purchases required.

New York/London, May 14th, 2008. – Fotolia, the largest online marketplace for micro-priced stock images, is improving their services for the customers in the press and public relations sector. It is now possible when sending out press releases, to attach high resolution images purchased on the Fotolia website; all that's required, is to purchase the Extended License for that image.

Berlin, 18th March 2008 — Quark Inc., manufacturer of prize-winning layout and design software QuarkXPress®, and Fotolia, operator of the international stock photography agency of the same name, are making - within the framework of the QuarkAlliance™ Technology Providers Program - the FotoliaXT QuarkXPress 7 XTensions® available free of charge.

With the aid of the Fotolia XTensions software, QuarkXPress 7 users will now be able to access the Fotolia community’s royalty-free images and illustrations — currently more than three million of them — straight from QuarkXPress 7, pull selected images using simple Drag&Drop, and position them into their print, Web, or interactive layouts.

Today we proudly present the winner of our 3 000 000th image competition. The contributor who uploaded most images in the 3 million seconds after our image 3 million is Mrs. Ana Liza S. Steiert from Berlin with the impressive number of 3,719 images. With Ana we found a particularly typical Fotolian who perfectly reflects what Fotolia is about. She was born 1965 in the Philippines. Following a career in the hotel and catering sector she has lived and worked in Macau, New Delhi, Dubai, Cairo and Berlin. Ana’s husband Oliver is a famous chef granting her access to the knowledge and ingredients necessary for food photography. Most of her images are actual co-productions with Oliver. Ana sent us a very private and interesting letter describing her photographic career and illustrating her story with images from her private album. Ana writes:

In response to both customer and photographer demands Fotolia has released two new licenses. The first license is called the eXtra Small standard license corresponding with the XS abbreviation. The license is designed for blogs and web applications (thumbnails and small images on websites). The license will start at just 1 credit for a 300*400 pixel image.

At the opposite end of the license scale, Fotolia has introduced an XXXL standard license, offering extremely large images. This license is available starting at 7 credits for 4800*6400 pixel images (30.7 MP) perfect for large printing projects.

With the introduction of these two new licenses we adjusted our price structure. Here is a link to the new pricing structure

Three years ago Fotolia launched with nothing, zero images and no customers. Now we have over 3 million images online, each week 40,000 new images are added, and the new registrations keep coming.

All of this is thanks to you, our 80,000 contributors. In order to celebrate this milestone, we are organizing a special contest.

3,000 Credits will be awarded to the contributor with the largest number images submitted and accepted in the next 3,000,000 seconds. This means if you want to carry home those 3,000 Credits you have about 34 days to pump those images onto our servers.

The winner of the contest and the 3,000 Fotolia Credits will be announced on this blog.

Again we thank all of our contributors for their hard work and support.

Photo: Paul Buceta (one of our earliest contributors)