Photrade: the Fair Social Image Bank

[DEMOFall 08] Most image banks sites do not give an important share of the pictures sales to the photographers, Photrade gives them 80%! In addition, this interesting photo site has a social networking component and some unique features: an easy to use protection system that allows the photo owners to custom-watermark their work, a link management feature that monitors who is linking to the photos with a LinkBlock option, a simple money management interface, an events section where users can invite people to share the photos they have taken at events, and a neat contest section that can be branded by the organizer and advertised on the web with badges. The contextual in-picture text ad is also pretty clever, it generates additional revenues in a non-intrusive way by displaying relevant sponsored information inside a photo: publishers and bloggers can use photos for free and the photographers get paid on every click. I got a detailed demo by the co-founder Andrew Paradies.and Krista Neher, VP of marketing. Andrew has been involved in photography since age 12 and it makes sense that he created a great tool for photographers, whether they are amateurs or professionals.

Eliane Fiolet
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