Jupitermedia acquired a real sleeper company earlier this week - bigshotmedia.

Bigshot is the largest company in the field of producing and selling stock flash footage. Flash footage is an infant "industry" but such imagery is increasingly appearing on Web sites and this trend should enjoy rapid growth in the coming years.

There is more to the story than growth. Jupitermedia also owns the largest developer community Web site devoted to flash - flashkit. Flashkit has over 300,000 registered developers and designers and gets well over 1 million page views per day. Jupitermedia also is about to launch a site devoted to flashcomponents (late January).

Mix all these together with the other acquisition mentioned in the linked press release above - bbm.net (a small but powerful little site that is a leader in creating and delivering royalty free music via flash-now we can offer music with our photos and other images) and one can see that Jupitermedia uses community and content to gain a significant marketshare. This strategy is unfolding in a variety of ways with stock photos as we own two significant design and photo buyer-oriented magazines (Dynamic Graphics and Step Indside Design) as well as numerous community Web sites for topics such as digital cameras, clipart, stock photos and more.

Stay tuned as we build out this strategy over the remainder of this year and into next year.

NEW IMAGE COLLECTION LAUNCHED - (RE)VIEW

Our Picture Arts division this week launched a terrific new rights managed collection of "retro" images called (re)view. Right out of the box this is now one of the best in this niche area. Stock Asylum gave it a solid review. Watch for the launch and more niche collections from several of our division in the coming year.