microstock photography stock footage founded 2005 2005 founder oleg tscheltzoff thibaud elziere headquarters new york city united states of america key people oleg tscheltzoff former ceo parent adobe systems website http www.fotolia.com fotolia by adobe is europe s leading microstock agency . it currently offers over 57 million high res royalty free images and videos available to license via subscription or credit purchase methods . fotolia was founded by thibaud elziere oleg tscheltzoff and patrick chassany 1 in november 2005 . 2 fotolia by adobe provides means for worldwide distribution of royalty free photographs vector graphics illustrations and videos through paypal in the countries that use it and moneybookers another internet payment system offered in more countries than paypal amongst other payment methods . photographers receive a commission for each image licensed via fotolia by adobe . as of october 2008 update fotolia had more than 800 000 members who had uploaded more than 4.2 million photographs and graphic illustrations . by the end of july 2010 those numbers had more than doubled to over 1 967 000 members and 9.8 million images vector graphics and hd videos . by may 2012 the member count climbed to more than 3 000 000 registered members and the database to 17 million digital images . 3 in may 2010 fotolia by adobe raised 150 million in growth equity from buyout firm kohlberg kravis roberts in exchange for a 50 % stake . 4 on december 11 2014 adobe announced it was buying fotolia by adobe for 800 million in cash aiming at integrating the service to its creative cloud solution . the purchase was completed in january 2015 . 5 fotolia by adobe is run as a stand alone website . see also edit photography portal image hosting service list of online image archives list of photo sharing websites references edit andy goetze interview with fotolia s ceo thibaud elziere stockphototalk.com november 28 2005 accessed april 29 2007 techcrunch fotolia s p2p photo sales april 29 2007 noah advisors case study fotolia techcrunch stock photos site fotolia launches fotolia instant an app for selling your smartphone photos adobe completes acquisition of fotolia press release . adobe systems inc. january 28 2015 . retrieved march 17 2015 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fotolia & oldid 739422198 categories companies based in new york city2005 establishments in new yorkcompanies established in 2005stock photographyhidden categories use mdy dates from january 2015articles containing potentially dated statements from october 2008all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages e tinadeutschespa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 14 september 2016 at 15 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view