We’re pleased to announce several new features now available!  We’ve received a lot of great feedback from many you over the last couple months and the LicenseStream team has been hard at work developing some of your requested features. There are 6 new features we‘ve highlighted in our newsletter and that we’d like to highlight in our LicenseStream Insight blog as well.

1. Customize your LicenseStream Store:  You can now customize the look of your store by including your logo in the top-left corner.  With this new feature,  you can keep the continuity of your brand throughout your LicenseStream store.  Simply go into your “Store Manager” and click on the “Logo” tab to upload your own business logo.
   

   



2. Showcase Your Galleries:  This addition lets you display Galleries as the top level of content within a store.  It’s a great way to showcase your galleries so buyers can instantly see a wider sampling of your work.  Be sure to sort your content in the order that you want it displayed.   You can easily refer back to our blog on how to easily sort and display your images in your galleries.


3. Give Your Gallery a Unique URL:  Give your Gallery a unique URL so that you can promote it via your website, blog, or e-mail to your clients.  We’ve made it easy to add one. Simply click on the Manage Gallery link inside of your Gallery and start promoting your Galleries now!  Stay tuned -- soon we’ll post information on this blog about promoting your work through social media outlets.


4. Link to you Store from Google Search:  We’ve also added a link to your store from the Licensing page.  Now when a buyer finds your image, video, or other digital content via Google Search, your LicenseStream store or published elsewhere on the Web, they will be directed to the Licensing page and will see a link to your store, where they can view your other works as well.  With this addition, LicenseStream offers buyers another way to discover more of your work!
   

   



5. Improve Your Metadata:  We think keywording and other search engine optimization (SEO) practices are very important for promoting your images and video content.  After all, if you put content onto the Web without good keywording, potential customers are less likely to find your content.  As you may have read in our previous blog posts, we have some great tips about the Dos and Don’ts of SEO Practices, including keywording.  When adding or updating metadata from your ‘Prepare’ page or the ‘Edit’ option on your thumbnails, you can now opt to have your updated metadata embedded in your content.  What this means is that changes made to your keywords and metadata to refine and improve your search results will be attached to your image. Follow as many of the SEO tips as you can and make a practice of implementing them in your LicenseStream Store.


6. Delete a Pending Invoice:  Before we added this feature, if you had a pending invoice for a specific image, and you wanted to delete the image from your gallery or store, you wouldn’t be able to delete it.  Now you can delete a pending invoice and then delete the image from your gallery or store.

We’d love to hear your ideas for new features to help your LicenseStream business. Click here to send us your ideas.