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Image Integration into HubShout

Several years ago we moved to an all US-based writer staff as it became apparent that off-shore writing had lower quality and language barrier problems. Last year we implemented Quality Audits and Reliability Scores for our US-based writing team in an effort to put metrics around how well they are doing.

Today, we are working on the look-and-feel of our content marketing. We have a partnership with a large-scale stock photo provider so that we can put compelling images next to our compelling content.

Specific Features

* Each campaign now goes into a category.

* Each category has a default image library

* Resellers and end-clients can over-ride the default image library and build a custom image library for the campaign.

* Resellers and end-clients can browse images in the SEM portal using keyword searches

* Each campaign is given 5 Image credits for license purchases

* The use of images for which HubShout already owns a license is unlimited.

* All photography is legally licensed for use by HubShout. Please join our Webinar this afternoon to see a demo.

Also see the blog post on this topic.

Is there a way to upload specific images for a client? One of my clients is a professional photographer and it would obviously make sense to use his pictures rather than standard images.

Great question. Unfortunately, not currently. It's not really a technical issue, the issue here is licensing. This sounds like it would not be an issue with your client because he's a professional photographer. However, there are so many Copyright infringement issues on the Internet today, we want to make sure we keep HubShout and our clients entirely legal when it comes to copyrights. As a result, we've be reluctant to open the image library up to user-generated pictures... But I get what you're saying and generally like the idea - just not sure how we could police that? What would stop someone less scrupulous from copying images they don't have rights to from a website and uploading them into HubShout for syndication? Let me know your thoughts.

Interesting issue and obviously an important one. Having people certify that the content is their's to use would be an obvious first step, but probably not enough. Maybe not allowing people to directly upload the content but forcing them to go through their Hubshout rep might help stem off the less scrupulous. I'm not 100% sure on the logistics but, as I seem to be picking up more and artistic types, I know it would be a great feature. I can also imagine it being valuable in a lot of industries. I produce infographics sometimes that it would be great to use, I have some Realtor clients who would probably like to upload pictures of the houses they are listing, I work with a builder and an architect so they would want to use images of their work, etc. I think the list could go on and on...

Yeah.. I really like your thinking. That's obviously the direction we want to head... But first stop - get all resellers at least using the stock art to make our content marketing more effective for SEO... :-) :-) :-)