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SnapVillage, the innovative microstock website empowered by Corbis, today announced that it is now open for business worldwide. Customers in most countries around the world can now license images from SnapVillage´s simple and intuitive English-language website, which has a rapidly growing collection of more than 160,000 lifestyle, business, travel and other images.

“We´re excited to bring SnapVillage´s fresh, simple, affordable approach to stock photography to image users in countries around the world”,

said Adam Brotman, senior vice president of Corbis.com & SnapVillage.com.

“This dramatically broadens the number of customers we can reach and will help drive continued rapid growth of SnapVillage.”

SnapVillage´s simple, clean website was designed to be easier to use for all types of creative people including small businesses, web and graphic design firms and consumers looking to create fun visual projects of their own.

People around the world will now have access to SnapVillage´s straightforward and user-friendly image licensing process, including licensing images via a monthly subscription, and innovative interactivity features such as community image tagging, saving pictures as favorites, commenting on images, sharing images with others and “Snappyness” image ratings.

“Snappyness” is a proprietary, dynamic rating that is driven by multiple measures of a picture´s popularity, including the number of times it has been viewed, downloaded, “favorited”, commented upon, shared and purchased. The “Snappyness” rating ensures that customers around the world will have access to the freshest and best images.

Currently, SnapVillage receives more than 10,000 images each week in categories ranging from animals and architecture to landscapes, food and recreation. SnapVillage continues its commitment to actively listen and incorporate customer feedback while accelerating enhancements to the website.

About SnapVillage

SnapVillage, empowered by Corbis, combines the best features of consumer photo-sharing websites with an online marketplace to create a distinctly better place to buy and sell affordable royalty-free photography. SnapVillage is a fresh approach to microstock with a clean, intuitive website, straightforward pricing and purchasing as well as innovative interactivity features that generate its proprietary “Snappyness” picture ratings.

SnapVillage features the revolutionary Pick Your Own Price model that gives photographers control and flexibility so they can maximize their income. To join the growing community at SnapVillage.com or bring fresh ideas to creative projects, go to snapvillage