Overview
ZUMA \'zü-mä\ n 1 : a really amazing picture agency 2 : Mayan for new day, solution, new vision 3 : Scott Mc Kiernan's loveable black lab.
Started in the early 1990s by photojournalists for photojournalists - not shareholders or billionaires - ZUMA Press is now the world's largest independent press agency and wire service.
ZUMA Press, produces award-winning news, sports and entertainment content and represents some of the greatest photojournalists, media groups, newspapers and picture agencies around the globe. ZUMA's staff of 50+ represents over 3,000 photographers worldwide and over 60 of the world's best picture agencies spanning the planet, as well as over 100 newspapers and the daily feed and archive of 33 publishing giants. ZUMA's photographers have won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer, World Press, BOP and POYi. ZUMA features a diverse library of over 8.5 million original pictures online, with upwards of 5,000 new images posted daily. Get the full picture. Get ZUMA.
ZUMA leads the way, with exclusive after exclusive and day-to-day coverage bar none. ZUMA wrote the book on citizen journalism before it was called that. In the last decade, ZUMA has had a credit in every major story in every major publication around the globe. ZUMA has unbeatable packages of recoup exclusives, in-depth current news, entertainment with pizzazz, sports spectaculars, music, fashion, heart-stopping, award-winning reportage and so much more. With such outstanding content, ZUMA's images regularly appear in media around the world.
The New York Times' cover on July 30, 2005, which reported the amazing arrest
of London Bombers, was ZUMA's. The ZUMA image of the 18 Coffins in Time magazine made the world stop and re-evaluate the Iraq war. When Elizabeth Smart
was found, the only image of her and her abductor was ZUMA's. When the DC
Snipers were caught, the image (in MSNBC) that tied all the pieces together was ZUMA's. On the 10th anniversary of the first big terrorist attack on U.S. soil, ZUMA's picture of a Fireman Carrying Injured Infant Baylee Amnon captured the emotion of the day. These photos are just a small sample of why ZUMA is your number-one source for images that tell the story--the whole story.
ZUMA features a diverse library of over three million original pictures. The collection is supplemented daily by 1,500 more images from a global network of sources. Currently, close to two million images are digitized, fully captioned and available for immediate download via ZUMA's industry-acclaimed e-commerce Website, ZUMApress.com.
Scott Mc Kiernan, CEO/Founder of ZUMA, created the first downloadable editorial picture Website in 1992. As a B-to-B Internet pioneer in digital-image transmission--even before Net usage became widespread--ZUMA soon became a leader. The pursuit of innovation continues as ZUMA develops cutting-edge technology. This has allowed the agency to set the standard in transferring and receiving volumes of high-quality, metadata-rich images in a fraction of the time and cost that it takes others in the industry.
ZUMA's commitment to technology extends beyond that of any other photo agency: ZUMA actually customizes and licenses its digital-image processing and storage system for other companies with large picture collections.
Powered by Z Solutions (ZUMA's, ZUMA's data-management division), media giants all over the world use ZUMA?s revolutionary database solutions including: MediaNews, EFE Spain, Oregon State University, GreenPeace and Keystone Picture Agency. The latest product is the next generation database: Zeus. Created from scratch and launched in 2006, it is already changing standards. It can handle unlimited size collections. It has been tested and worked with no loss in speed, with 30 million images. Accompanying this is our Broadcaster for image transfer at lightening speed and complex exceptions and inclusions, down to a single image among millions.
Other ZUMA properties include: The Pictures Of The Day, the best pictures in the world; DOUBLEtruck Magazine, the POYi, BOP, and NPPA award winning, ultimate showcase of cutting-edge photojournalism; Bearing Witness Picture Book Series; The KONA Gallery, The Place for Photojournalism; zReportage.com, the high-end, elite photojournalism service; and Keystone Pictures USA, the original wire service (started in the 1870s) with the best visual history of the 20th century and beyond.
Founded in 1993 and incorporated in 1995, ZUMA Press remains independent and photographer-owned. ZUMA is headquartered in San Clemente, California, with major bureaus in Hollywood, London and New York, as well as other locations worldwide.
Credit Images: © Annibale Greco/ZUMAPRESS.com, Pete Marovich/ZUMAPRESS.com, Gene Blevins/ZUMAPRESS.com, Nancy Kaszerman/ZUMAPRESS.com, Philip Poupin/ZUMAPRESS.com, Leonardo Balovinos/ZUMAPRESS.com, Grant Hindsley/ ZUMAPRESS.com, Roshan Norouzi/ZUMAPRESS.com
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