ImageSpan and Digimarc yesterday announced their partnership to integrate LicenseStream Content Tracker solution into Digimarc for Images – Professional Edition providing creative professionals a seamless solution to monetize, manage, and monitor their image assets.

Digimarc for Images – Professional Edition users that currently embed imperceptible digital watermarks in their images and receive reports of where their content is found online, will now have the ability to receive reports via a LicenseStream dashboard integrated within the Digimarc for Images solution. The dashboard empowers creative professionals to maximize the value of their image assets with efficiency and ease by providing automated remedies to license and collect payments for use of their image assets.  Targeted for a launch later this year, the solution will be bundled into Digimarc for Images – Professional and Small Business Editions.

This initiative builds on a partnership announced in November where ImageSpan and Digimarc are offering a joint enterprise solution for Stock Photography Agencies, Media Companies, Museums and Archives.

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Today ImageSpan, the creator of LicenseStream, is announcing a strategic alliance with liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of customized portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers. By teaming the market-leading LicenseStream licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media with liveBooks’ services, the companies will deliver a set of best-in-class services that will empower photographers to publish their content safely and directly to the Web and global search engines, enabling them to extend their online reach and generate new revenues. To see today’s full announcement, go to the ImageSpan Newsroom.

To  learn more about how this strategic alliance can help you more efficiently manage your photo archive, click in to the webinar liveBooks will host with ImageSpan at 2 p.m. Pacific (5 p.m. Eastern) this coming Thursday, July 30. The webinar will feature ImageSpan’s Community Agent and Strategic Relations Director Pamela Fischer. See how you can enable licensing of your photos on your liveBooks Web site using LicenseStream and turn each piece of content into its own storefront. Register for the liveBooks webinar now!

• Iain Scholnick, CEO, ImageSpan
  "Want to Open Your Content for Business? We'll Show You How"
  5 p.m.
  Solutions Showcase Theater in the Web 2.0 Expo Hall – Moscone West
  
  
• Booth Crawl – Stop by and have a beer with us!
  4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
  Web 2.0 Expo Hall, Moscone West
  
  
• Rafael Solis, Director, Marketing
  Bird of a Feather session: "Search Engines - Looking Beyond SEO and Advertising Revenues"
  8 p.m.
  Sierra Rooms, Marriott Hotel | 55 Fourth Street between Market and Mission

We had some pretty exciting news hit the wire this morning. We've now teamed up with the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations, and the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). Members of these groups will now have access to professional discounts on LicenseStream Creator, LicenseStream PRO and LicenseStream storage upgrades.

Together, these premier photographers and imaging organizations represent a reach of nearly 35,000 creative professionals. Needless to say, these relationships mean a lot to us here and we're looking forwards to growing with these professional groups.

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Iain Scholnick, CEO of ImageSpan, will be a guest on Shutterbug Magazine Radio with host Jack Warren this Friday, February 20th. This will be a great opportunity to hear Iain discuss new developments at ImageSpan and hear about innovative new features in our LicenseStream Creator service.  
 
Upcoming product enhancements build on the current features and usability.  Many improvements incorporate great supporting feedback provided by those in the photographer, videographer and creative professional communities.
 
What: Shutterbug Magazine Radio with host Jack Warren
When: Friday, February 20th 2009
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00PM Pacific Time (airs LIVE)
Where: www.wsradio.com/shutterbug

Those who listen and want to call in with questions can call the show at 1-877-474-3302.  For those unable to listen tomorrow, the archived show will be archived by late Monday on the show page at www.wsRadio.com for 24/7 listening.  We hope you can join us!