WireImage Photography Company

WireImage was launched in 2001 as a collection of pictures of global events from the lines of sports, entertainment and worldwide news. Since their launch they have achieved recognition of photographers, photo editors, publicists, celebrities and millions of individuals around the globe.

In early 2007 WireImage was acquired by Getty Images for an astounding $200 million. The deal also included purchase of MediaVast Inc the original owner of WireImage and its sub-brands FilmMagic and Contour Photos. Today WireImage has over 2000 photographers which include acclaimed professionals who cover events around the globe.


The biggest strength of WireImage is its acclaimed photographers who have tremendous recognition in the entertainment industry and whose work get regularly published in international and national magazines and newspapers, in websites, television programs wireless application and advertisements. In any given month WireImages website has an average of 25 million views and 2.0 million unique viewers. Since November 2006 MediaVast has been uploading 5,500 images and 90 events regularly. As a top-ranking digital photo agency today WireImage captures all the major events ranging from awards ceremonies, movie and television premieres, concerts, festivals, social events, sports and much more.

WireImage also provides images and pictures to worldwide newspapers, magazines, websites, mobile publicists and PR firms. Each and every image in their website is encoded with subject, date, venue, location, and caption information. Online services are provided 24/7 so that people can search, browse and immediately download pictures in JPEG format in both high and low resolutions. The images are captured by the WireImage professionals with the help of state-of-the-art digital equipment and are delivered to clients via website, FTP, or physical media.

Besides still photography WireImage also provides high quality exclusive video clippings and celebrity footage. About 700 new video clippings are added to its website every week. WireImage also provides photography and video coverage to PR agencies, publicists, party planers and corporate events as well as awards, festivals premieres etc. WireImage assigns its photographers for such jobs based on their experience and field of specialty on assignment basis.

WireImage also provides pre-event publicity for its clients as well as post event online approval capabilities and distribution to the press and media. Besides all these WireImage also provides its clients with photo re-touching and printing facilities as well as providing the images to its clients in digital media formats through CD-ROMs. WireImage has its head office in New York and has offices in Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Atlanta within America. Besides it also has offices in various parts of the globe as in England, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia. It has about 50 corporate affiliates in various other countries of the world. Wireimage