(openPR) - Munich, May 28th, 2009. PantherMedia (panthermedia.net), the biggest original German mid- and microstock agency with over one million royalty-free images, today announced its new microstock offering: besides reducing the prices for single images by more than 80%, images can now be purchased using the new credit-payment system or an image subscription plan.

The outstanding feature of the new image subscription plan from PantherMedia: it is not based on the „Images-per-Day“ model like elsewhere, but on the new „Subscription Points-per-Day“ model. This allows picture buyers to scale the subscription plan due to their individual needs.

Besides the image purchase with credits or via the new subscription plan, the purchase of single images on invoice for web and print usage will still remain.

Acquiring Single Images with Credits
With its superlow prices PantherMedia´s new microstock offering is an attractive way for SOHOs, designers, bloggers and private customers to buy affordable imagery with credits.
Single images can be bought for as low as $0.80 with credits. Credits can be bought in different packages and sizes and start at $13.90 for 10 credits up to $3,990.90 for 5,000 credits (all prices excluding VAT).
Besides lower prices than purchasing images on invoice, this new credit payment system enables the image buyer to instantly download images without using the shopping cart or paying single invoices any longer. A comprehensive overview about PantherMedia´s new microstock offering for image buyers can be found here:

www.panthermedia.net?productoverview

New Subscription Points-per-Day Based Image Subscription
Single images can be downloaded starting at one Subscription Point (as low as $0.20) in PantherMedia´s new Subscription Points-per-Day image subscription plans.
Image subscriptions can be acquired in various packages with a 3, 6 or 12 months period and with 10, 30, 60 or 120 Subscription Points-per-Day and start at $75.00/month (all prices excluding VAT).
Image buyers can now configure individual packages which fit their needs. A complete overview on PantherMedia´s new Subscription Points-per-Day model can be found here:

www.panthermedia.net?imagesubscription

About PantherMedia
PantherMedia is a marketplace for royalty free (RF) photography. Suppliers as well as buyers of commercial and editorial imagery meet on one shared platform consisting of a photocommunity for photographers and a stock agency for image buyers.
The photocommunity serves as the creative heart of the image marketplace. Professional photographers and shutterbugs from all over the world can upload, rate and comment on images. They can share their experience, further develop their photographic skills and showcase their artistic potential.
After a legal and qualitative check through PantherMedia, picture editors chose adequate images for the stock agency. Agencies, publishing houses and enterprises which need images can licence photographs for their individual purposes - either as single images or through a flexible subscription plan.
The revenues will be shared with photographers. This novel business model allows through so-called „User Generated Content“, provided by over 20,000 photographers worldwide, to keep the offer of RF-images far below the average market price.
PanterMedia.net is an enterprise of PantherMedia GmbH with headquarters in Munich, Germany and was founded in October 2004. At present, PantherMedia offers more than 1 million images worldwide directly and via an international network of over 90 distribution partners in 36 countries. Twelve employees are working on the success of this business. During the FounderChampions competition of the 25th German Days of Founders and Entrepreneurs PantherMedia represented the Federal State of Bavaria as the best Bavarian Start-up.

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Robert Walters
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