Technical Storage and Access

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

AI Keywording Services

Get AI keywording enhanced to the standard needed to boost sales and comply with industry standards for Getty, Alamy, Adobe or your bespoke standard.

Major image keywording standards are catered for, including Getty and Alamy. We can also help with ranking and editing large collections to maximize sales.

Editorial Image Keywording

Editorial image keywording is its own special skill. Years of experience working with celebrity, news and reportage images and videos give our team the edge.

About Picsell Media

Picsell Media was started as an off-shoot of an image library and photo agency in 2005. Today we specialize in image keywording alone, working with major names from the stock photo library and archive sectors.

We have a policy of hiring native English speakers with a background in media and photography. No crowdsourcing or piece workers. Our main team is based in Cape Town SA, with admin in Auckland NZ.

We’ve developed keywording vocabularies and systems to handle the major standards, including Getty and Alamy. We also have extensive experience with Orange Logic’s Cortex system.

Our Team

With more than 30 years of experience running image libraries, Kevin knows the difference good metadata can make to searchability and sales.

Shane has a background in journalism, and now manages our workflow and the Cape Town team.

With a background in photography, Crystal is in charge of training and keywording for key clients.