SuperStock

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SuperStock is a stock image provider which represents thousands of photographers, artists, archives, museums, and special collections from around the world. The images are licensed on a royalty-free, rights-managed, and subscription basis and are typically used in advertisements, annual reports, book covers, brochures, CD covers, greeting cards, posters, magazine covers, web sites and as wall art. SuperStock offers over a million images broken down into three distinct collections; Contemporary, Vintage and Fine Art. They also license royalty-free images under the brand name Purestock and on a subscription basis under the name PurestockX. In early 2008 they launched a new website named MediaMagnet which licenses images under the midstock pricing model.

SuperStock was established in New York City in 1973 and was originally know as FourbyFive. They later relocated their headquarters to Jacksonville, FL where they built a state-of-the-art digital facility. Although they were originally one of the leading providers of stock images, the company was hurt by their slow response to the emerging royalty-free licensing model and by competition from agencies such as Getty Images and Corbis, who quickly dominated the market through consolidation of other agencies. In March 2004 SuperStock was acquired by a21, Inc., which also owns the companies Ingram Publishing and ArtSelect. SuperStock maintains their headquarters in Jacksonville, FL with smaller offices in New York, NY and London, UK.