Hi guys,

We have been approached by Payoneer to link up with them.

So if we did this, is anyone:
1. Interested?
2. Already with them?
3. Is beneficial if we had them as a payment option to you?

Thoughts?
Alex.

HOUSTON, TX, November 30, 2011 - Since its humble beginnings in 2005, 123RF.com has been accepting stock photos from photographers and licensing them to advertising agencies, graphic designers and businesses under a Royalty-Free license. Today, 123RF.com officially announces the launch of its video submission platform. Keeping in line with the growing needs and demands for video and motion graphics in the advertising & media industry, this significant evolution for 123RF.com has resoundingly solidified its position as an established player in the Royalty-Free stock photos and digital media licensing industry.

Recent research reports by Nielsen[1] and Gartner[2] shows the increasing prevalence in the use of video and video based advertisements[3] especially in mobile devices is rapidly gaining ground over traditional forms of advertising. Stephanie Sitt, C.E.O. of 123RF Limited believes that the availability of internet bandwidth that enables the streaming of videos is a key driver for the growth in demand for highly creative and yet commercially orientated stock videos.

�We�re very excited to be able to develop the platform to open yet another income channel for videographers, agencies and other producers of stock videos. We certainly have the platform, the eyeballs and the right audience from the right industry - all that�s left is the right content to meet that demand. Our traffic and internet reach according to Alexa, Compete and QuantCast has increased more than fifteen fold over the past 2 years, making 123RF.com the fastest growing Royalty-Free stock agency.� enthused Sitt.

Sitt goes on to add, �Our IT team have put together a reliable and fast video submission platform that ensures a stable upload, quick file-encoding and comes complete with a user-friendly interface for keywording and release attachment. To submit videos to 123RF.com, just create a Contributor account, and follow the instructions to start uploading. We have approximately 30,000 videos in our databases right now but would really welcome more to ensure that our clients will be spoilt for choice during the launch day, scheduled for January 2012.�

More information on uploading procedures, commissions, legal documents and end user license agreements can be found on submit.123rf.com/footage. Email [email protected] for details and inquiries on video submission.

[1] January 2011: Online Video Usage Up 45%

( http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/january-2011-online-video-usage-up-45/ )

[2] Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Advertising Revenue Forecast to Reach $3.3 Billion in 2011

( http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1726614 )

[3] Online Video Ad Spending Annual Growth Peaks In 2012

( http://www.reelseo.com/online-video-ad-spending/ )

About 123RF.com

Since 2005, 123RF.com is a royalty-free stock photo library that offers a variety of inexpensive, impressive and practical high quality stock photos, catering to clients who have a constant need of fresh images. 123RF.com hosts over 11.3 million stock photos while 20,000 images are added to the website on a daily basis. 123RF.com also gives photographers, designers and illustrators the opportunity to promote their photography and illustrations to a worldwide audience. 123RF.com operates 24-hours a day, from Mondays to Fridays. For further details, please visit www.123rf.com.

Dear 123RF Contributors:

At the moment, unless we're notified otherwise, your portfolio will be sold via our API Partner channels.

However, you may now opt out of 123RF API Partner sales if you wish to. Please email us at [email protected] and give us your 123RF.com USERID. You should email us from the email address that you use to register your account at 123RF.com. Please use this in your message title : "API Partner Sales Opt Out".

Please kindly note that at this time, you CANNOT choose to opt from specific partners. It's either ALL or NONE AT ALL.

We will implement this feature on the site at a later date to give you more control over your image distribution.

Thank you.

Alex.

Dear Contributors,

123RF.com would like to offer its sincere condolences and prayers to the victims and extends its support to those affected by the disastrous earthquake and tsunami that struck the north-eastern coast of Japan on March 11, 2011.

We are deeply saddened by the tragic images of loss of life, family and homes. We would like to offer compassion and support to the survivors and have set up 123RFCares - Tsunami Relief Fund. 123RFCares is a special account created for 123RF.com users to donate through downloading images.

We wish to invite you to donate an image (or several) for the Japan Tsunami relief efforts. 123RF.com pledges to match dollar for dollar for every image downloaded from the 123RFCares account throughout the campaign period. We are going to route all proceeds to the Hong Kong Red Cross society and we also have their support of our campaign.

For more information please visit: http://www.123rf.com/blog/blog.php?idblog=b1000179

Here are some information which you should know if you�re interested to contribute your works to the 123RFCares account:

• A credit line will be given - �This work was donated by <name> ( <userid> ) for the Tsunami Relief Fund - proceeds from all downloads will donated to the Hong Kong Red Cross.� in the Content description.
• The owner of the Content can request the removal of the Content at any time by writing in to [email protected]. Kindly allow 3 working days to perform the content deletion thereafter.
• No commissions or royalties will be paid, this is a voluntary donation.
• Please email your donated content to [email protected] with title "123RFCares Content Donation".
• The review team will ascertain its suitability as we need to abide by some guidelines as set by the Red Cross.
• We will voluntarily Describe and Keyword the image for you if you have not described or keyworded the image via IPTC.

A simple act of contributing an image can make a big difference. Every contribution will provide services and comfort to those in need and in distress. Let's do our part for the affected communities. I wish to personally thank you in advance if you do indeed join us in this special donation drive.

Alex
for 123RF.com

Hey folks!

A Happy New Year to everyone and speaking of the new year, we would like to start off the year with new and exciting ideas plus ways to improve the overall performance of 123RF.com

So, we would like you, yes....you, our dear contributors to share with us on your thoughts and opinions on how we can improve 123RF.com's affiliate programs.

Here's the link to the survey and this would just take a couple of minutes or so for you to complete it. A couple of minutes of your time would certainly make a big difference in things to come.

Survey link : http://bit.ly/i27PlS

Go ahead and have your say...because we really love to hear from all our contributors!

Additionally, we have altered our Contributor's Agreement to cover Distribution activities and Account Termination effects more comprehensively. We urge you to visit the updated agreement here http://www.123rf.com/submit/agreement.php.

Thank you for your participation and stay tuned for more exciting ideas and announcements coming your way soon!

Best Regards,
123RF.com

Dear 123RF.com Contributors,

Kindly note that we're migrating to a new FTP server this entire weekend. As a result, we will not be enabling any FTP processing or uploads. The system is scheduled to be installed and running on Monday, June 14, 2010.

We regret if this has caused you any inconvenience. We should have a more responsive, spacious and stable FTP server to suit your uploading requirements soon.

Thanks for your kind understanding!

Alex
for 123RF.com

Hi Everyone,

Great news! We've introduced another value added service to our clients - 123RF Image Enlargement Service. And you can now see this as being available on the website if you look at your file sizes, we now have the following:

Size            Credits   Your share
S                  1         50%   
M                  2         50%   
L                  3         50%   
XL                 4         50%   
XXL                5         50%   
100 MB TIFF       150     20 credits
200 MB TIFF       300     40 credits
300 MB TIFF       450     60 credits


We are employing an external party to provide this service to our clients. We are using your 5 credit version of the image to enlarge it to 100, 200, 300 MB TIFFs with some minor touch up, removal of noise, etc.  Don't worry about your original images, we do make sure that we keep everything cataloged and our external service provider will not distribute this version without first consulting 123RF.

The good news is, you're now getting approximately 13.3% of the FULL VALUE (not 50% as in the case of the S-XXL size images) of the credits for each image enlarged, while we share the remaining amount with the image enlargement service provider.

We hope that this will prove to be a good and profitable business model for you and our clients as it will increase the earning capacity for everyone. We will promote this service to all our clients and soon you should see some heavy hitting sales coming your way!

Thank you very much.

Alex.
for 123RF.com