5Under the agreement, Allsport’s live photographic wire and archival image services will be available across AOL, CompuServe, Netscape and other America Online brands. This will allow the more than 32 million AOL and CompuServe members, and the tens of millions of additional users of America Online’s Web-based brands to see up-to-the-minute images of their favorite sporting events and players, direct from Allsport’s team of award-winning photographers, alongside their preferred editorial content.
People across the world experience our imagery in many different ways – through advertising, design and film, in news magazines and newspapers, in business presentations and marketing materials, and in high-profile online destinations such as America Online’s brands, said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and chief executive officer of Getty Images. Our Allsport photos are a perfect match for the immediacy of the Internet, and we are excited to deliver a front-row seat on the world’s sporting stage to the tens of millions of users of the AOL brands, who expect the highest quality, most up-to-date information and imagery.
We are happy to have this agreement with Getty Images’ Allsport brand, one of the most respected names in sports photography, said Ray Oglethorpe, president of America Online, Inc. Sports areas are some of the most popular across our brands, and I believe our members and users of our Web-based properties will appreciate access to Allsport’s world-class imagery.
