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Innovative and feature-rich software platform for digital media management
19 May 2010. Pixamba has today launched the Pixamba Media Management platform, a powerful yet affordable digital asset management service, specifically designed to help microstock photography users to manage their portfolio of licensed stock images effectively.
Pixamba Media Management Service helps users to index, store, search, tag, retrieve and back up their images, whether purchased from photo stock agencies or edited in-house. The service also enables users to manage micro stock photography in multiple drafts and file versions.
Pixamba Media Management Service provides real-time visibility of each individual stock image, including when and how it was used and the up-to-date status of respective legal rights for further use. This allows users to ensure that set policy-based usage permissions and content security rules are adhered to.
How to edit a single stock image with Pixamba. Screenshot and caption provided by Pixamba Ltd.
Easy to use with an entry price point of $4.99 per account for 3GB space, Pixamba's service provides a unique combination of features for microstock users:
Centralized digital media storage and management accessible from anywhere
Advanced fast search functionality
Integrated search in customer's archive and in multiple stock agencies
Automated 'Buy & Stock' feature and original metadata retention
Advanced version control
Automated indexing
Media-rights tracking for maximum ROI
User friendly and intuitive interaction
Fast image uploads and media indexing
SaaS delivery requiring no initial investment and low pay-as-you-go storage costs
Accepts virtually any digital asset, most images formats supported
Media cataloging by folders, light boxes, companies and categories
David Mail, CEO and founder of Pixamba said: "With the exponential growth in the global microstock market, there has been a dramatic increase in microstock-based creative files. We believe that we are the first to market to provide a digital asset management system that puts the stock photography consumers in full control of their archives of licensed images".
The new service is aimed at purchasers of digital stock photography including web designers, graphic designers, creative and advertising agencies and media, marketing and academic users.
Pricing information: All plans include full functionality and 30-day free trial. Basic: $4.99/m - 3GB Plus: $11.99/m - 10GB - limited time sign up offer: 20% off - $9.99/m Premium: $24.99/m - 30GB Max: $49.99/m - 80 GB, Unlimited with flat $0.49/GB over 80GB
Pixamba also offers a free plan limited to 100MB storage.
About Pixamba Pixamba is a business software development and media services company providing solutions for the international microstock market. The company introduced its first product for microstock originators, the ProStockMaster desktop software solution in 2006. Pixamba's solutions and services are regularly used by leading microstock sellers and buyers worldwide.
The new Pixamba Media Management platform is based on four years of rigorous development and validation in the dynamic microstock business environment. The company has used its extensive SaaS and client-side experience and expertise in the modern stock imagery market to develop its innovative and feature-rich software platform for digital media management.
Effectively addressing key operational and business challenges associated with the microstock industry, the platform was specifically designed to provide imagery consumers of any scale and type with an affordable yet powerful media and workflow management solution that maximizes investment and avoids loss of assets and time efficiencies.
(First posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 14:52 EDT)
