WireImage.com - Celebrity Imagery

Looking for images and videos of your favorite celebrities and athletes? Then you’ve definitely come to the right place. WireImage is a digital photo agency and wire service for entertainment that provides newspapers, magazines, websites, mobile, publicists, and PR firms with immediate access to photo coverage of entertainment (celebrity, film, music, fashion), sports, and news. Images are captured by professional photographers and delivered to clients via website, FTP, or physical media. You can search, browse and immediately download JPEG images in both low and high resolutions. All photos come with subject, date, venue, location, and caption information. WireImage adds approximately 90 new events (5,500 images) per day. It captures all the major events, ranging from awards ceremonies, movie and television premieres, concerts, festivals, social events and much more. The video library offers high-quality and often exclusive material from the world of entertainment. New content is added at the rate of over 700 new clips per week. WireImage also provides PR agencies, publicists, party planners, and corporate communications departments with photography and video coverage for all events (premieres, parties, awards, festivals, and corporate). Additional services include: pre-event publicity support, post-event online photo approval capabilities, customized push and distribution to the press, as well as ancillary production services, such as digital image processing and re-touching, and print and CD-ROM fulfillment.

“Launched in 2001, WireImage has become an authority for celebrity imagery by bringing together a first-class delivery platform and a premier photographic service team. Our roster of photographers includes acclaimed professionals and industry veterans who have tremendous clout within the entertainment industry. WireImage also provides up-to-the-minute entertainment footage to leading broadcast and mobile carriers, and online properties worldwide. The footage division specializes in licensing wholly owned and represented entertainment content, in both raw and packaged forms. Headquartered in New York, WireImage provides worldwide image syndication through its international offices and a global network of affiliates. WireImage is a division of Getty Images, Inc., a leading creator and distributor of visual content. Visit Getty Images at www.gettyimages.com.”

People love images of celebrities, entertainers and athletes. In fact, it has become one of the fastest growing categories in the visual content business. The demand for entertainment, event and celebrity imagery is growing fast. WireImage has a promising future as it has been recently acquired by Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content.

Will WireImage become the world leader in providing photos of celebrities and major events to the media? How will they deal with an increasing number of stock photo agencies entering the market?