In case you missed it, ImageSpan this week with arvato finance services Limited announced their platform collaboration. This collaboration enables LicenseStream to deliver a global content clearinghouse that unifies, drives and accelerates the trade of digital content, including video, images, audio and text.

What does this mean? That we’re rolling out the first global solution to monetize content – ever!

The new global content clearinghouse combines ImageSpan’s automated content licensing, publishing and tracking platform, called LicenseStream, with arvato finance’s PaymentLounge premium merchant services consisting of global billing, accounting and payment components. 

This may all sound a little lofty, but it solves the real-world problem facing many owners of large stores of content: how to monetize content efficiently on a global basis. As a result, the thousands of individual photographers and illustrators who’ve chosen LicenseStream to help them make money with their content now are being joined by marquee publishers and media companies. The Chicago Tribune and The McEvoy Group – a publisher whose brand media properties include SPIN magazine and Chronicle Books – already are beginning to develop new markets, direct customer relationships and drive incremental revenues via the joint solution.

To learn more about this new global content clearinghouse and what it delivers, check out this week’s ImageSpan announcement.