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Substantial growth of age fotostock and THP Photo Services portfolio of images in 2008

age fotostock, the well known stock photo agency based in Barcelona, with sales offices in Madrid, New York, and Paris, has announced that it has closed 2008 with 8.6 million images in its portfolio, all of which are available through age fotostock's website, www.agefotostock.com, and to all the members of the THP Photo Services hosting platform.

In 2008, age fotostock has signed representation agreements with hundreds of new providers of images, both photographers and agencies from around the world. Through this effort, the company has added a total of 2.612.089 million new images to the portfolio from 334 different collections. This represents a 67.66% increase of the quantity of images compared with 2007 figures.

age fotostock's efforts have focused conscientiously on adding content in identified areas of high demand, such as images of travel, food, ethnicity, lifestyle, and specialized historical collections, to serve the needs of a very diverse customer base.

However, age fotostock efforts are not only focused on distributing collections from other stock agencies. The agency is also working diligently to enrich its own Rights Managed (RM) age fotostock and Royalty Free (RF) Pixtal collections. In addition to the large number of photographic productions the agency has done during 2008 with a number of different photographers, the volume of pictures the company received to be selected by contributing photographers reached a peak of 1,078,072 images, representing 19.42% more images than those received in 2007. However, after the strict edition process, only 11.87% (127.730 images) were finally accepted.