| To: REH who wrote (33) | 6/23/1999 10:23:00 AM | | From: REH | | | |
Getty Images' Art.com Joins Amazon.com Auctions
PR Newswire, Wednesday, June 23, 1999 at 10:14
Online Buyers Can Now Place Bids & Buy Framed Art
in Web's Leading Online Auction
SEATTLE, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Getty Images' consumer art brand,
Art.com(SM), one of the world's most inviting places to discover and buy art,
today announced it has joined Amazon.com's Auctions. Amazon.com
(NASDAQ:AMZN), the leading online retailer, offers almost 1,000 categories on
its customer-friendly, secure, innovative auction site. Now, the more than 10
million customers who are pre-registered on the Amazon.com Auction(s) site can
bid on top quality framed and matted art from Art.com, a subsidiary of Getty
Images, Inc. (NASDAQ:GETY), a leading, global provider of visual content.
"Teaming up with Amazon.com Auctions will allow us to bring our high
quality art prints to millions of experienced online buyers, at great bidding
prices," said Bill Lederer, Chief Executive Officer of Art.com. "Participants
in this dynamic online auction marketplace will be able to affordably enrich
their lives with the great works of master artists."
Staking a Claim with Art
Amazon.com Auctions is helping consumers find, discover, buy and sell
virtually anything online. Participants can find Art.com merchandise easily,
by searching for "Collectables" and then "Art & Photography" in the auction
environment or by typing Art.com in the seller search box.
"We are excited to add Art.com's top quality art prints to our
professional retail auctioneers," said Jeff Blackburn of Amazon.com. "Art.com
provides exactly the kind of product that our consumer audience wants and will
place bids to acquire. We fully expect Art.com to contribute to the bidding
volume on the site."
A few of the art pieces currently placed on auction by Art.com include
matted and framed art prints such as:
-- Michelangelo's Ignudo
-- Paul Klee's Arab Song
-- Norman Rockwell's The Gift
-- Kandinsky's Bright Lucidity
-- Ansel Adams' Mount McKinley Range
-- Hal Morey's Grand Central Light
About Art.com
Art.com(SM) (http://www.art.com), the consumer brand of Getty Images,
Inc., is an inviting and engaging e-commerce destination that makes buying art
accessible, personal and fun by offering valuable information consumers need
to learn about and purchase art. The site is an enriching and convenient
source for art, offering many of the world's great prints in one place.
Art.com's expansive galleries feature master works by world-famous artists, as
well as original pop culture artists. In addition to everyday discounts,
personalized product choices and a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee, Art.com
offers three distinguishing features -- framing visualization software,
seasonal and featured galleries, and the ArtClique(SM) Saver's Club. Art.com
is the recipient of the respected Pinnacle Award for Overall Excellence and
the eMarketer Web recognition Award. Art.com is the consumer brand of Getty
Images, Inc. (NASDAQ:GETY), the leading, global provider of visual content.
More information about Getty Images and its visual content brands can be found
on the company's Web site at getty-images.com.
About Getty Images, Inc.
Getty Images, Inc., with 30 million photographs and more than 13,000 hours
of film, is a leading international provider of visual content to both the
professional and the consumer markets. The company's business-to-business
image brands provide imagery to a diverse range of creative professionals in
advertising and graphic design, magazine, book and newspaper publishing,
broadcasting, production, and web and new media publishing. The company's
consumer brand, Art.com, offers framed and unframed art and art related items
to the $9 billion consumer art marketplace.
Getty Images markets rights to images and footage through its websites,
its international network of wholly owned offices in 17 countries, and agents
in more than 50 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, the company has
approximately 1,450 employees worldwide, and had revenues of $52.2 million in
the first quarter of 1999. The company's 1998 revenues were approximately $185
million.
Getty Images' market leading visual content brands are:
Business-to-business
Tony Stone Images tonystone.com
Energy Film Library digital-energy.com
PhotoDisc photodisc.com
Hulton Getty hultongetty.com
Allsport allsport.com
Liaison Agency liaisonphoto.com
Consumer
Art.com art.com
For more information on Getty Images and its product brands please visit
the company's website at getty-images.com.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks
and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating
history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential
fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, intense competition,
risks associated with system interruption, management of potential growth,
high leverage, and risks of new business areas, international expansion,
business combinations, and strategic alliances. More information about
factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is
included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998.
NOTE: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Internet Movie Database, PlanetAll,
Earth's Biggest Bookstore, and 1-Click are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All other names mentioned
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE Art.com
-0- 06/23/99
/CONTACT: Coleman Smith of Alexander Ogilvy Public Relations,
404-897-2300, csmith@alexanderogilvy.com, for Art.com; Laurie McEachron,
206-269-1769, laurie.mceachron@seattle.getty-images.com, or Mary Waters Sayer,
011-44-171-544-2973, mary.waters.sayer@getty-images.com, both of Getty Images;
or Mark Fox of Hill & Knowlton, 212-885-0642, mfox@hillandknowlton.com, for
Art.com/
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| To: REH who wrote (34) | 6/24/1999 8:50:00 AM | | From: REH | | | |
Getty Images Signs Deal With Amazon.com To Auction Off Art
Dow Jones Online News, Wednesday, June 23, 1999 at 14:06
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A unit of photo archiving company Getty Images
Inc. Wednesday said it will list products on Amazon.com Inc.'s auction
Web site.
Financial terms weren't disclosed.
Getty Images (GETY), based in Chicago, said under the agreement,
customers who are pre-registered at Amazon.com's site can bid on framed
and matted art from its Art.com unit.
Amazon.com, (AMZN) the Seattle online bookseller, lately has been
making forays into the Web auction realm in order to compete with
succesful online auctioneers such as Ebay Inc. Last week Amazon.com paid
$45 million for a 1.7% stake in the Sotheby's auction house. The two
companies plan to create an online auction for art and antiques.
Copyright (c) 1999 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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| To: REH who wrote (35) | 8/15/1999 6:54:00 PM | | From: Moahiat | | | |
Let me give you one, DBPG - Deerbook Publishing Group and ArtUp.com. Artup.com is launching in about 10 days. This one will be the winner in the online art game. Art.com has about 5 images in the online auctions, artup.com will have over 5,000. Artup.com has recieved over 1 million dollars in orders pre-launch.
Stock could run in the next week to new highs. |
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| To: Billy Barooo who wrote () | 8/25/1999 7:34:00 PM | | From: Axxel | | | |
From the newsletter...FYI:
Getty Images [GETY-18.1875] Let's go back to accumulate under $20?This looks pretty good at this point. 8/3/99: acting very well and remains accumulate. 8/22/99: The accumulate rating is holding well and the VTAR? stuff is improving. Let's move to Buy. Digital sales in the quarter, consisting of e-commerce and CD-ROM sales, amounted to $23.5 million or approximately 43 percent of sales, an increase of nearly 54 percent over the second quarter of 1998. E-commerce sales for the quarter reached new record levels, increasing 115 percent to $13.8 million, compared to $6.4 million in the second quarter of 1998. E-commerce sales as a percentage of total sales increased by 89 percent to approximately 25 percent from 13 percent in the second quarter of 1998. Year- to-date e-commerce sales are $24.1 million, representing approximately 22.5
percent of total sales.
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| To: Axxel who wrote (37) | 8/30/1999 1:29:00 PM | | From: Moahiat | | | |
If you like GETY then you would love DBPG, artup.com. Artup.com is launching tomorrow with a huge ecommerce site. Getty ownes art.com which is a joke.
DBPG is undiscovered. |
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| To: Moahiat who wrote (38) | 8/30/1999 11:25:00 PM | | From: Axxel | | | |
Undiscovered? Deerbrook Publishing Group Inc ( DBPG)moved from 20 cents to almost 4 bucks in about 30 days, so I would not say that it is "undiscovered." Maybe it is undiscovered by some people, but this stock has way too much hype and hope associated with it...note the following PR release:
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PHOENIX, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Deerbrook Publishing Group (OTC Bulletin Board: DBPG - news), Deerbrook Publishing Group announced today that a
large block of stock that was traded today at a price below recent prices that the company believes removes a substantial block of stock which has been overhanging
the market and that may have been artificially depressing, or will artificially depress, the trading price of the company's stock. The buyer now owns over 4% of the
stock of Deerbrook Publishing Group. The individual that sold his position was a long time shareholder and the sale was unrelated to any negative perception of
Deerbrook current position. In fact, Keith Chesser, Deerbrook's chairman and CEO, noted that: Deerbrook's online e-commerce site artup.com and the artup.com
networks (www.artup.com) will launch later this month. Artup.com is modeled for a high revenue and high profit Internet company. Chesser also noted that the
company is expected to earn .30 per share next year with over 15 million in revenues. None of these revenues include sales directly to the retail market. Artup.com
should give Deerbrook the ability to achieve higher margins for the company and increase shareholder value. Chesser also expressed that it is his belief that
Deerbrook and artup.com will be a significant player in the art industry, an industry that is generates over 20 billion in sales per year. For these reasons Chesser
expressed that it is his belief that the stock is undervalued."
I will watch, thank however...
AXXel
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| To: Axxel who wrote (39) | 8/31/1999 1:43:00 PM | | From: Moahiat | | | | |
The fund that purchased the stock had to announce that because they are more than a 10% shareholder. This is very positive. |
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| To: Axxel who wrote (39) | 8/31/1999 1:51:00 PM | | From: Moahiat | | | |
Bull Run Picks
BullRun Members,
We want to alert our members of a stock we have been researching for
awhile now. The stock is DBPG, Deerbrook Publishing. The reason we are
giving a headsup alert on this stock instead of alerting our members of a
coming pick first is because we have just learned of the website grand
opening of Artup.com possible today. So we wanted to get as much info.
out as possible before any PR was announced. The following dd was put
together rather quickly today and will be elaborated on further later.
DBPG is a longterm pick that should have some great short term gains with
the small float and many PR's coming soon.
We also want to reiterate our long position on HSNS and remind our members
of a PR expected on HSNS this week. THE PICK: DBPG ( DEERBROOK PUBLISHING )
FLOAT 1.1 MILLION SHARES CURRENT PRICE $2.50-$3.00
* Artup.com website grand opening this week- possibly today
* Artup.com is an online art site within the market of $500-$2000
* DBPG plans on spinning off Artup.com through an IPO later this fall.
biz.yahoo.com
* Deal with AOL with preferential treatment under the keyword: ART ( PR
will be released soon )
* Rumored spinoff shares of Artup.com to DBPG shareholders
* DBPG marketing blitz to begin this week
* Revenues are expected to be 15-20 million fully diluted next year with
.30 earnings expected-with a 30 PE that makes DBPG shares worth $8-$12 a
share. These numbers do not include revenue or profit from Artup.com or
any retail. Only sales to wholesalers.
biz.yahoo.com
* DBPG is currently talking to underwriters for the IPO
* DBPG currently making other acquisitions of other art sites.
biz.yahoo.com
biz.yahoo.com
* DBPG also plans on unveiling a new technology to revolutionize the
internet and solve ecommerce problems.
biz.yahoo.com
* Art is a 20 billion dollar industry
* DBPG plans to apply for a Nasdaq small cap listing later this year.
biz.yahoo.com
* Artup.com will be featured under Go2Net and Lycos.
biz.yahoo.com
biz.yahoo.com
* Titan Capital Partners is acquiring 1.6 million shares of DBPG
biz.yahoo.com
* DBPG plans to announce a new President soon who is a large player in
the art industry- they currently have an interim President
* All recent PR's on DBPG can be found athttp://biz.yahoo.com/n/d/dbpg.ob.html
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| To: Moahiat who wrote (41) | 8/31/1999 2:37:00 PM | | From: Axxel | | | |
This is not my kind of stock...way too much hype...I want no involvement in it whatever.
AXXel |
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