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  • Reuters acquires Action Images Reuters acquires Action Images

    MUMBAI: Global news agency Reuters has acquired Action Images, the specialist sports photography agency in a deal designed to continue the expansion of Reuters global picture business.

    The deal brings together Reuters global sports coverage with Action Images’ archive of more than fifty years of sports photography and a highly successful editorial and commercial photography business.

    The London based Action Images has been in the sports photography business for the past two decades. Its clients include major sports clubs and governing bodies, international media publishers and sponsors. It has a team of photographers working on editorial and commercial assignments, and has developed an archive of more than seven million sports images stretching back over 50 years with more than 1.5 million available online. The deal enables Reuters to expand the sale of its pictures beyond its traditional media client base into the commercial market, and to build the Action Images brand in markets outside the UK. Action Images will also have access to Reuters world class sports news text and graphics, and will use these to create multi-media products for its clients.

    Reuters has acquired Image Group the holding company of the Action Images group. The gross assets of Image Group Limited as of December 2004 amounted to ?1,821,494. Reuters will retain the Action Images brand and its founder David Jacobs is remaining as MD of the Action Images business. Reuters global head of news and pictures Monique Villa, becomes Action Images chairman and Phillip Kelly will be its CEO.

    Villa said, “Bringing together Reuters world class sports photography with Action Images position in the editorial and commercial market is a really powerful combination. It is an important part of the ongoing investment and expansion of our picture business, allowing us to reach new market places and cement our position in existing ones.”

    Jacobs said, “This is a huge opportunity for Action Images. It allows us to take our business to the next level creating multi-media packages for our clients and reaching out to a truly global audience. It really opens up the sports photography marketplace, creating a new alternative for publishers, sponsors and sports bodies.”

  • Visage to licence Getty images in India

    MUMBAI: Getty Images, one of the leading imagery companies, has signed an agreement with Hyderabad-headquartered Visage Media Services to enable them to license Getty Images film collections to creative agencies across the India region from 1 July.

    Creative professionals across India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives will now be able to purchase film material from Visage Media Services, based in Hyderabad, India, where before this material was only available through Getty’s Singapore office, stated an official release.

    The move is designed to provide clients with more choice from Visage Media Services, which previously only provided still images, and to open up Getty Images’ extensive film collection to the India region. India is home to the world’s largest film industry, Bollywood, and as one of the top 20 countries worldwide by advertising expenditure and one of the top 10 highest growth countries worldwide, the potential for growth is tremendous, the release added.

    “India’s thriving film industry and increasing population spell an excellent opportunity for Getty Images,” said VP Agent and Emerging Markets Andrew Booth said. “India’s film, advertising and corporate industries have an enormous demand for film footage, and as a leading provider of both rights-managed and royalty-free film footage on the web, Getty Images is establishing itself as the most comprehensive provider of high quality film to creative agencies in the region”.

    This move follows Getty Images’ agreement with Visage Media Services in May this year for Visage to exclusively represent their creative stills collections across the region. “Visage have done a great job so far in managing our creative stills across the India region,” Booth said, “So we are extending our agreement to film in confidence that our presence in the region will continue to grow”

    “Visage is delighted to offer the range of Getty Images film to our customers in the India region,” Visage Media Services CEO Srini Kilambi said. “We feel there is great potential for this product in India, and we are certain that the film and creative industries will appreciate having access to such a powerful and diverse collection of pre-shot footage.”

    Getty Images’ film collection includes The Image Bank film, Photodisc film and Digital Vision film.

  • UK viewers want tougher controls on sexual images in children’s content

    UK viewers want tougher controls on sexual images in children’s content

    MUMBAI: UK viewers want stricter controls over the amount of sex that children are exposed to on television.

    In a BBC survey, 86 per cent of respondents felt the government should impose tougher restrictions on sexual images on children’s television and in magazines aimed at children. The aim is to discourage under-16s from having sex.

    The BBC’s Healthy Britain survey questioned more than 1000 people on a number of issues including free contraception, sex education and screening services.

    As many as 92 per cent of 55 to 64 year olds, and 78 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds backed the idea that the government should be firmer on the issue of sex on children’s content.

    While 89 per cent of the respondents supported television campaigns and publicity to promote safer sex and highlight the inherent risks of unprotected sex. 10 per cent were not in favour of such a move.

    Meanwhile, 78 per cent of those polled supported spending government funds on free condoms to discourage unprotected sex. The figure rises to 91 per cent in the 18 to 24 age group

    The phone poll was conducted for the BBC by ICM between 20 and 22 August across England, Scotland and Wales.

  • BBC chooses Intelliseek to power research portal

    BBC chooses Intelliseek to power research portal

    LONDON: The BBC has chosen Intelliseek’s Enterprise Search Server (ESS) technology to power a research portal for BBC journalists, producers and researchers who need single-point access to vast amounts of information currently stored in numerous, disparate sources.
     

    An official release informs that instead of searching separately for background information the BBC’s communications professionals can now use a single desktop interface to gain access to news clippings, broadcast and recording archives, images, internal or specialty databases; and subscription content sources.

    The Cincinnati based Intelliseek specialises in federated search technologies that capture, track and analyse information from thousands of disparate sources and in multiple formats to provide real-time research and intelligence.

    By pooling disparate sources into a single interface with built-in relevance and continuous updates, ESS technology helps organisations cut the time necessary for research, decision-making, planning, sales, marketing and product development.

    The ESS implementation is accessible to more than 5,000 BBC users worldwide. The research portal can be used by producers, journalists and researchers as they develop and create news, comedy and entertainment programmes the release states.

    The ESS deployment for the BBC provides single-point desktop access to a variety of sources, including subscription sources, reference works and research services; the BBC’s archive of TV, radio and music (some dating 50 years or more); the BBC’s photograph and music libraries (CD/LP/cassette/digital); and other content, such as specialty databases, maps and services used to identify and locate expert sources for news stories or interviews.