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BlogHer and PicApp Announce Partnership to Provide Images to Network Publishers

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Posted by Niran Amir on July 23, 2009 – 10:21 am
Filed under Announcements, General

Contributors and members of BlogHer, the leading community hub for women, can now access millions of premium images from PicApp to include alongside editorial and creative content on their posts.

BlogHer is the leading participatory news, entertainment and information network for women online. It includes BlogHer.com, a community hub for bloggers with more than 54,000 members and 60 editors covering topics from politics, entertainment to food health and family, and the BlogHer Publishing Network of more than 2,500 qualified, contextually targeted sites reaching more than 15 million unique visitors per month. PicApp was selected as the only partner to be fully integrated into BlogHer in order to provide full size, premium and legal images to BlogHer publishers.

Read the full press announcement.

We are happy to announce the partnership and to have our application and images available to the BlogHer community.

The PicApp Team
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PicApp Announces Partnership with Daum Communication

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Posted by Niran Amir on May 30, 2009 – 1:03 am
Filed under Announcements, General

PicApp is proud to announce its partnership with Daum Communication, the largest ISP in Korea and to offer its Blog Platform, Tistory and its publishers with access to millions of images.
Tistory blog Platform launched in May 2006 is experiencing rapid growth and with over 250,000 users it keeping growing while attracting opinion leaders and trendsetters.

Accessing PicApp images will be done through the Tistory platform.
Read the official Press Announcement

We are very excited to launch the relationship, this is a first step in expending PicApp into Asia.
To meet with the anticipated demand for local content PicApp is and will be adding additional images in the next couple of weeks.

Read more- Daum’s press announcement.

Special thanks for the team at Daum Communication for their ongoing support and commitment.

To welcome our new partners and its publishers we have created this short introduction demo which walk thru the process of embedding a PicApp image in the Tistory Platform. Enjoy!

PicApp at WordCamp Toronto

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Posted by Niran Amir on May 15, 2009 – 11:06 am
Filed under Announcements, General

WordCamps are growing events surrounding the popularity of WordPress. People from all experience levels with the blogging platform get together and interact with each other. For some WordCamp attendees, it is the only conference they attend, and with that, one of their few changes to interact with people that share a common interest.

This year, at WordCamp Toronto, PicApp was proud to not only sponsor, but also to have a representative at the event. David Peralty, whom you all might remember as the former Community Manager of PicApp stepped in and presented on our behalf. David is a well known blogger, and WordPress fanatic.

The presentation was entitled, “The Image Problem - Creating Captivating Blog Posts”, where he went through the issues with most methods bloggers use to add images to their blogs, and why it is important to have multi-media content embedded within your blog posts to drive attraction, page views, and focus.

“I went in there not knowing what the skill level would be of the audience, nor what they would be using WordPress for, but I assumed everyone would be publishing content, and with that text content, they should have some sort of images to help attract people to what they were publishing” - David Peralty (brandingdavid.com)

After David’s presentation, he fielded questions, not only about PicApp and finding free, legal images online, but about the blogging industry as a whole.

Over the course of the three day event, there were numerous talks on blogging, social media, building traffic, branding, and revenue to blogs being powered by WordPress.

Brendan Sera-Shriar, the lead organizer of the event did an amazing job. Logistically, these sorts of events are very complicated to put on, but in the end, everything worked out well.

We are looking forward to WordCamp Toronto 2010, and hope to see even more WordPress fans in attendance.

Toronto skyline

Picture of PicApp schwag:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitallifenews/3513299731/in/set-72157617789520543/

Our star publishers

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Posted by Niran Amir on March 31, 2009 – 3:31 pm
Filed under Announcements, General

Few more loyal, creative publishers I wanted to highlight this week,

The first is rPulse, the site follows and reports on Hollywood and celebrity news while making it its mission to shy away from damaging gossip and rumors. To read more visit rpulse.com (previously known as perezrevenge.com)

Liz and her business partner are doing such a great job, we love your site!

Hollywood sign

The second is Forum Blue and Gold, I may be a bit biased here (living in LA for a couple of years and being a Lakers fan), but this is a great site, the site takes a straight forward approach and deals with what happens on the court, nothing else, you gotta love that focus- pure basketball.  Check it out at Forum Blue and Gold. Beyond great content I also got an interesting story on- why blue.

Thunder vs. Lakers

Keeping up with so many exciting sports events in March it just makes sense that our third publisher is another great sports site- The Ghostwriter, covering everything NFL and Football, check it our at Ghostwriter.com

2009 Capital One Bowl - Michigan State Spartans v Georgia Bulldogs

Nicely done! it’s great to see such diverse and creative sites.

China Fashion Week

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Posted by Niran Amir on March 26, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Filed under Current Events, General

With so many sports related events happening in March and April, I decided to take a short break and showcase different images- Fashion Shows ones.
China Fashion Week, March 25-31, is evolving from a small scale show to an influential event featuring 30 fashion shows, interestingly, critics say the fashion show has never been so “Chinese” with Chinese elements becoming more chic and popular in the fashion scene around the world.

China Fashion Week A/W 09
China Fashion Week A/W 09

Picapp’s innovation on JPost

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Posted by Niran Amir on March 4, 2009 – 2:25 pm
Filed under General

Eyal and I recently talked with Meredith Price Levitt from the Jerusalem Post about Picapp, its origin, value and how we see it developing further.
“… How does Picapp provide more than 20 million high-end copyrighted files from companies like Getty Images and Corbis and license them at no cost to themselves or bloggers?
Therein lies the revolutionary part. By exchanging content for advertising space, they are essentially paying for the images through on-line advertising. Instead of giving publishers and bloggers an image that can be stolen or misused, Picapp provides a link that allows users to paste the image of their choice - (with an advertisement underneath) - into their page or blog. Through this link, Picapp tracks images that are being used on-line and receives revenue from the advertising rather than the bloggers or publishers having to pay for expensive rights.”

Click to read the rest of the article.

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