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London - August 2009: Britain on View, the image library of the UK's National Tourist Board, Visit Britain, today announces the launch of its brand new website at www.britainonview.com . The new site is created and operated by Photolibrary Group, the worlds leading independent global distributor and producer of stills, music and footage.

This brand new site contains significant enhancements including utilising the latest technology to allow users to search for images using primary colours as a filter. The new website also offers full ecommerce functionality, new exclusive content, high resolution download facility for key clients and is available in multi territories/currencies. The Britain on View collection is made up of thousands of images produced by VisitBritain's shoot management team and boosted with third party contributors such as Joe Cornish, National Trust Library and David Noton.

Glenn Parker, Photolibrary Group CEO says "cementing its position as the natural place to search for British content, www.britainonview.com now offers the modern image buyer all necessary functionality to find that perfect image. With the worlds eyes focused firmly on the UK in the coming years with the London Olympics, there really is no other place to search for that quintessential British shot"

Jasmine Teer, Photographic Manager for Visit Britain says "The all new Britain on View site created by Photolibrary Group has improved functionality. Increased support in UK and internationally, on territory makes searching for images so much easier and VisitBritain will continue to refresh its collection in the lead up to 2012".

About The The Photolibrary Group

The Photolibrary Group represents over 250 of the world's leading brands and 2,000+ photographers from around the world, to bring memorable, workable content to the creative communities in Europe, America, Asia and The Pacific. We provide customers with access to over 6 million images and over 2,000 hours of footage.

The Photolibrary Group is comprised of www.photolibrary.com (General Rights managed and royalty free images), www.photostogo.com (royalty free subscription service) and the specialist agencies www.osfimages.com and www.osffootage.com (natural world images and footage) , www.gardenpicture.com (horticultural and botanical), www.monsoonimages.com (fine art), and, www.freshfoodimages.com (food and drink).

The Photolibrary Group has offices in the United Kingdom (London and Leeds), the USA (New York, San Francisco and Chicago), Australia (Sydney and Melbourne), New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, India, and the United Arab Emirates.

Contact

Glenn Parker, CEO, Photolibrary Group
Email: glenn.parker@photolibrary.com
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