StockPodium is a microstock agency that uses visual similarity search and auto-tagging to help photographers promote and sell their images. It has over 7 million images in its catalog and does over 150,000 image sales per month. The company is seeking $1.5 million in investment to fund marketing, research and development, and operations as it expands its contributor base and direct sales channels.

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2. Team
Hristo Georgiev
Georgi Kadrev Marketing Director
CEO Sofia, Bulgaria
Sofia, Bulgaria
Pavel Andreev
Creative Director
Sofia, Bulgaria
Dr Stavri Nikolov
Technology Advisor Georgios Tziralis
Seville, Spain OF representative
Athens, Greece
Board of Advisors
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3. What is StockPodium
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Micro-stock Visual similarity Speeding-up
agency and keywords your search
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4. The Micro-stock concept
$2 Who is buying micro-stock
for an image
$ $600M
turnover 2009
creative agencies
news agencies, publishers
web agencies, freelancers
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20 000 000 bloggers, presenters
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$ sold images/month
photographers
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5. How StockPodium Works
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6. Visual Similarity Search
How does it work?
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7. Visual Similarity Search
Shape
Histogram
analysis
Composition
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8. Visual Similarity Search
Shape
Histogram
analysis
Object
Composition recognition
feature vector
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9. Visual Similarity Search
visual similarity based on feature vectors
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10. Auto Tagging
Suggested keywords
boy baby isolated red
white pencil child young
portrait eating write with on
draw education close-up
88% green beautiful yellow girl
precision colorful activity learn
powered by Taggre
paper lessons background
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11. StockPodium Roadmap
OUT NOW!
Nov 2010 Feb 2011 May 2011
Affiliate Agency
Resell
contributors beta
auto tagging
direct sales
direct sales
7m images 7m images Xm images
visual similarity visual similarity visual similarity
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12. Current Status
55 000 700 150
Monthly Unique Visitors Registered Users Photographers Signed
No marketing money spent so far!
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13. Why StockPodium
Visual
Team
Similarity
the right mix
Great Clear
technology business model
and more to come...
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14. Investment
$ $1.5M
smart money
marketing and sales
research and development
operational expenses
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15. Thank You!
Questions?
office@stockpodium.com twitter.com/stockpodium facebook.com/stockpodium
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19. Object extraction 19

20. Shape matching 20

21. 878
matching cost
Shape matching 21

22. template
picture
Template matching 22