IStockphoto: One-Stop Shop for Royalty-Free Sights & Sounds

User-Generated Content Pioneer iStockphoto Adds Audio Tracks to World's Leading Destination for Stock Images, Videos and Sounds

iStockphoto, the world's leading stock multimedia destination, announced its new audio collection today at the SXSW Music Festival. iStock's Standard Audio collection includes over 11,000 royalty-free, user-generated sound effects and music tracks. iStock also debuted a new Pump Audio collection of over 18,000 single-production music tracks. iStock is now the first company to offer stock imagery, video footage, vector illustrations, Flash files and audio for purchase under a single payment model, on one convenient site.

iStock is a pioneer in monetizing user-generated content, with contributing artists and customers from nearly every country in the world. iStock shares royalties with its contributing artists currently pays out close to $1.1 million weekly.

iStock's Standard Audio tracks start as low as $2 each with Pump Audio tracks as low as $29. Music and sound effects tracks can be used in a variety of creative projects, from Web video to TV shows, movies, commercials, public performances and even games.

Chad Anderson of eyeidea(tm) raves, "iStockaudio is really the last piece of the puzzle for iStock. Now producers have one place they can go on the web...they can find photographs, illustrations, videos, and now audio. They can find everything they need, all the elements, download them and put their project together."

"The iStock model extends purchasing power to masses of people, many of whom are already devouring our image and video content," said Kelly Thompson, COO of iStockphoto. "We are truly the Web's easiest solution to buying all types of multimedia content in one place and under a single account."

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Source: iStockphoto