iStockphoto has announced a partnership with iGoogle to provide users a new selection of beautiful and immersive full-page themes. Initially, there are more than 30 themes in the
iGoogle Themes library.
In addition, iGoogle users interested in using images from iGoogle themes for other purposes outside of iGoogle will receive a 20-percent iStockphoto discount when they visit
www.istockphoto.com/igoogle.php.
In addition to adding gadgets including for Gmail, news, photos, weather, and more, users can now further personalize their iGoogle pages with background themes featuring images from iStockphoto. So far more than 200,000 iGoogle users have chosen iStockphotos most popular “Mountains Album” theme for their home page.
“iGoogle provides tens of millions of people around the world with a personalized Google experience, and the new themes featuring iStock imagery will help users make their pages more engaging,” said Rebecca Rockafellar, Senior Vice President of E-Commerce at Getty Images and General Manager of iStockphoto. “Since Google began incorporating our imagery into template designs for Blogger.com and most recently, themes for Gmail, we’ve received more than 10 million new visitors to iStock. We are thrilled about this next phase and making our content available to the vast iGoogle audience base.”
The collection of new themes featuring iStock imagery is available globally and can be seen in the
iGoogle theme directory. Favorite themes and gadgets can be shared on Google+ by clicking the +1 button.