Getty Images Continues to Strengthen its Footage Offering with New Appointment of Simon Samuels, Director, Footage EMEA

Getty Images has announced the appointment of Simon Samuels to the position of director, footage EMEA. Samuels’ expertise in the moving imagery sector will play an important role in helping to develop and grow Getty Images’ Footage offering into 2008.

Samuels has a background in advertising sales at Flextech-IDS, and brings over five years dedicated experience from Associated Press, where he successfully raised the company’s profile in both its Archive and Entertainment divisions.

“I’m delighted to be working for a company which is leading the way in terms of content digitisation, delivery, presentation & pricing,” said Samuels. “Getty Images’ website is an incredible one-stop content shop for producers of creative material in all global markets, in which Footage will be key factor in creating opportunities and driving revenues.”

Craig Peters, vice president, footage and multimedia, added: “As part of our ongoing strategy to drive the growth of Getty Images’ Footage offering, Simon brings invaluable expertise of the moving imagery sector. We’ve made some exciting industry-leading enhancements to our Footage site in 2007 and along with this new appointment, we anticipate being able to offer our customers an even stronger multimedia service.”

Samuel’s will be based at Getty Images’ Camden office in London and will report to Craig Peters in Los Angeles.

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Key Facts and Figures: Footage

Nearly 140,000 commercial quality film clips are available in 27 unique collections. In combination with our deep file library, Getty Images has tens of thousands of hours of footage

Getty Images’ footage collections can be searched across six different languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin

Getty Images collaborates with a large roster of well known filmmakers from leading
production companies to shoot new footage for its collection

About Getty Images

Getty Images is the world’s leading creator and distributor of visual content and the first place creative professionals turn to discover, purchase and manage imagery. The company’s award-winning photographers and imagery help customers create inspiring work which appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and Web sites. Headquartered in Seattle and serving customers in more than 100 countries, Getty Images believes in the power of imagery to drive positive change, educate, inform, and entertain. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com.

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