One Million Free Images And Counting Sees fOTOGLIF Among Leading Image Resources For Bloggers

Jan. 27, 2009 - PRLog -- Toronto, ON - With figures from blog authority Technorati showing there are almost 200 million blogs in the US alone, fOTOGLIF is increasing blog legitimacy with their free-to-use image resource application. Using images from leading photo agencies and freelance photographers, fOTOGLIF has published their one-millionth copyright-free photograph.

"Blogging is a serious and influential business," says Mike Betts, founder of the Canadian company. “Large brands are increasingly using blog partners to get their message across. A real stumbling block has been copyright concerns regarding image use. fOTOGLIF removes that barrier by giving bloggers access to free and instant news-breaking images from around the globe.”

fOTOGLIF has partnerships with Thomson Reuters, Getty Images, Splash News and NewsCom. These agencies deliver more than 10,000 new images per day to the fOTOGLIF news feed, as they happen. This allows bloggers to retrieve images for a breaking news story and publish them on their blog before many other media outlets have updated their own websites.

“Take the inauguration of Barack Obama as an example,” states Paul Vice, VP of Business Development. “A blogger can be watching the event live on television while writing his or her blog. They can then access our database for images minutes after they happen on-screen and add them to their blog. In essence, they’re reporting in just as live a manner as more traditional media. That kind of authority is where blogging is headed.”    

fOTOGLIF’s database will offer images across all forms of digital media. Celebrity images will mix with technology as well as the latest local and international news stories. With fOTOGLIF’s RSS syndication platform, bloggers will be able to access images instantly and easily. .

Simple access to the fOTOGLIF website enables bloggers to select the size and alignment of their required image. An embed code then places the image into the blog ready for publication.

"fOTOGLIF’s strength is that it not only allows bloggers access to over 1 million instant and newsworthy images – it rewards the photographer as well,” adds Vice. “The free ad-supported images let the photographer’s earn 50% of the revenue. This really is a win-win situation all round and will help establish blogging’s increasingly key place in the media today, while ensuring the image-makers are suitably recognized.”

For more information please visit http://www.fotoglif.com

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About fOTOGLIF:
fOTOGLIF is an advertising-supported stock and editorial photography licensing solution to online image use. It offers free copyright-protected photographs from respected media sources for the distribution and sharing of image content online. Using advertising as the financial vehicle, viewers and publishers are offered content free of charge and creators are paid 50% of revenues earned by the use of their content online.