Corbis Launches New Professional Licensing Web Site.

Business Editors

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001

Online Licensing and Download, Access to More Corbis Sources are

Major Steps On the Road to an "All-Digital" Workflow 

Corbis(R) (www.corbis.com) today formally announced the launch of its new professional licensing web site, making Corbis the place online for professionals to easily find, license and download commercial and editorial imagery.

For the first time, commercial image buyers can search, license and download content online from virtually all of Corbis' sources, including Corbis traditional licensing, Corbis Royalty Free, Corbis Stock Market and Corbis Outline for commercial content; and Corbis Sygma, Corbis Saba, and Tempsport for real-time news.

By incorporating so many image sources online in one place, and by providing many new features such as instant license and download capabilities, and interactive folder management, the new site is a concrete example of how Corbis is acting on its vision of providing tools that fit with an "all digital" client workflow.

"Our goal is to provide clients with a single, unified web site that provides immediate access to the entire spectrum of content that Corbis represents," said Bruce Chesebrough, vice president for Corbis' professional licensing business. "With our new site, we give both editorial and commercial image buyers an online experience that enables them to search, license, save and share images from Corbis easier and quicker than ever before."

Key new elements of the Corbis site include:

-- A time-saving "intelligent" search capability with customized search filters
such as color, perspective, media type, concept, download ability, timeframe,
photographer and others to help users find just the right image for a specific
use or requirement.

-- The ability to view images and their prices for various uses, see the
license, confirm orders and in many instances download orders immediately.

-- A folder management feature enabling customers to save and share projects
and images securely with colleagues, clients or vendors.

Another important element of the site is an entirely new area for "real time" searching and licensing editorial content called Corbis Newsroom. In Corbis Newsroom, editorial image buyers, for the first time, have online search, licensing and download ability for breaking news imagery within minutes of its creation. Contributing agencies include Corbis Sygma, Corbis Saba and Tempsport.

The look and design of the entire new Corbis professional licensing web site has also been updated to speed navigation, establish similarity with Corbis' other web sites and to accommodate online licensing.

The launch of the new professional site is the third such site launch for Corbis in the past six months. In September, Corbis launched BizPresenter(TM) (www.bizpresenter.com) to license images for business projects such as Power Point presentations. In November, Corbis expanded and re-launched its consumer web site to be the largest online print and poster gallery.

About Corbis(R)

Corbis Corporation--The Place for Pictures Online(TM)--is the definitive destination for photography and fine art in the digital age. With 65 million images--2.1 million on line--it is the leading provider of digital images to the creative professional, commercial, business and consumer markets. Corbis is also the world's leading news photography agency. The company uses its extensive Internet technology to allow customers to quickly and conveniently access and purchase images. Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong, Germany and Malaysia the privately owned company has approximately 1,300 employees worldwide. For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 1-800-260-0444, 425/641-4505, fax [phone], or visit the Web site at www.corbis.com.