A quick recap of the past few months at Wemark

Just a few hours before closing deposits, we’ve compiled a list highlighting our major achievements from the past few months. Working fast and lean, we’ve on-boarded influential advisors and partners, launched the Alpha version of our marketplace with a collection of over 1 million curated images, and made remarkable progress towards turning our vision to a reality.

Our list of influential content partners continues to grow — this month with 6 new image producers and libraries taking Wemark’s collection to new heights. Carefully curated premium commercial imagery from Image Source, Tetra Images, Plainpicture, Maskot, Robert Harding and West End 61 shatter expectations of stock photography, and look more like custom work than the boring clichés of traditional stock agencies.

After an unexpectedly high volume of early contributions, we decided to immediately end the first stage of deposits. These came in at an extraordinarily higher rate than we expected — we were surprised, humbled and excited beyond belief.

After anticipation, sweat, and very little sleep, we launched Wemark’s marketplace to the public with an initial collection of 130,000 searchable images from the world’s most inspiring photographers and content producers. This will expand to millions of photos in the coming months as we’ve already received over 1 million submitted images from content partners and individual photographers.

In early July, we sowed the early seeds of a partnership that will enable hundreds of thousands of video creators and marketers to access Wemark images for their marketing videos.

Months before launching our marketplace, partnerships and token sale, we were already getting great press on our plans to use the blockchain to dramatically change stock photography. Forbes writer Monty Munford digs in with details on our platform and what it means for photographers worldwide.

Wemark’s CEO & co-founder, Tai Kaish participated in three of the conference’s main events: an interactive discussion on blockchain as the future of the content industry, a pitch presentation during Cepic Innovation Day, and a panel on alternative models for licensing photography.

As momentum continued to build for our token sale, we were thrilled to have Miguel Forbes join our advisory board. Forbes brings decades of financial and media expertise, and his experience with publishing, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy makes him a great fit.

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