One billion is a big number.
Take a moment and think of making one small step around your home or office. Now, multiply that by one billion, and you will have walked fifteen times around the earth. To think of it another way, a 32-year-old is also one-billion seconds old.
This year, PhotoShelter turns 18–or half a billion seconds old. That means we’ve processed the equivalent of two visual media files per second, every second of every day for the past 18 years to reach one billion media files under management. Innovating upon a dependable platform for a lifetime—that’s something to celebrate!
The media assets we manage for brands, teams, organizations, and photographers shape the world as we know it. The visual stories impact our culture–from the World Series to the Olympics, Presidential Inaugurations to college graduations, moments of global conflict to the hottest new fashion campaigns – all live inside the PhotoShelter cloud platform.
From there, these visual assets travel through our system to your newsfeeds, social media accounts, ad campaigns, newsletters, and your favorite glossy magazines at an unrivaled scale.
There is simply no other platform that is relied on by more creative people to store, manage and share their visual storytelling with the world.
PhotoShelter works with over 2,000 industry-leading brands across almost every industry, including professional sports teams and leagues, universities, nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies, travel destinations, retail and merchandising, and tens of thousands of professional photographers who document and shape how we see the world.
We take this obligation with the seriousness it deserves. PhotoShelter pioneered creative media management in 2005, building our proprietary cloud technology infrastructure that enables effortless storage and management of visual media at scale.
The PhotoShelter for Brands platform provides lightning-fast uploads, wireless FTP transfers, secure sharing of media assets with stakeholders, mobile apps to work on the go, workflow tools for team collaboration, and integrations into adjacent systems to deploy media campaigns in real-time. Plus, everything is backed up in multiple locations with the highest level of data protection possible to ensure all files are accessible and actionable whenever and wherever they are needed.
We’ve never lost a single file since our founding and we hold sacred our obligation to the brands and image-makers that place their trust in us. This trust guides every decision we make at PhotoShelter, one billion times over.
As PhotoShelter embarks on an innovative new phase, the relationship we have with you – our growing community of creative professionals – will continue to evolve and scale to meet your needs while you tell the visual stories of our times.
Thank you for trusting PhotoShelter as we drive toward powering the next billion brand stories!
