Your Photo Content
is our passion
FRST MEDIA IS AN AGENCY AND INVESTMENT GROUP WHICH CARES ABOUT PROJECTS WORKING PRIMARILY WITH DIGITAL PHOTO CONTENT.
Our goal was to build an open online media agency that is based on visual content and at the same time on an open liberal approach, protects authorship, and legality while limiting fakes and not being discredited by artificial intelligence forgeries.
Photos and photo documents inspired us as a universal means of expressing native communication, which does not need to have long demanding texts and captions. Photo content is also an important item for B2B online media and marketing partners.
“5 billion new photos are created every day”.
Our vision was to generalize the idea of an open platform such as “open, global Reuters” or “YouTube for authorized photo content”. For now, we wanted to target the area of the domestic market, i.e. Europe.
Formerly European project frsthand.com was operated by a U.S.-based company, Yournal Inc., since 2017. During this time, FrstHand established itself in 140 countries worldwide and attracted tens of thousands of professional and amateur photojournalists.
When the operation of FrstHand ceased in the U.S. and the project returned to Europe, we have gotten an opportunity to continue with it with possibly providing a strong capital source to achieve global goals. FrstMedia now covers the frsthand.com platform.
“Frst things frst.”
Why do we think
Photgraphy
IS RIGHT?
For millennia, the image has been the best source of communication between people and storing information. It’s easier to absorb and easier to remember. And it doesn’t require sophisticated education.
In today’s fast-paced world, more and more people are just skimming information content and focusing only on visual subjects. Quality and authentic content therefore play a vital role in conveying information in a fast and natural way without the barrier of language and linguistic skills or professional knowledge. “Content is the king and an image is his Queen.”
Everbody can take a picture
“Worshipers of Shiva” by Santanu Bose
frsthand.com/@santanubose003
Photos give voice to stories better than words
“A bright moment amont the flames” by logan Hannigandowns
frsthand.com/@logan.hannigandowns
There is no language needed
“Azohra” by Nigtly
frsthand.com/@nt
Photography is an eyewitness
“Set Us Free” by Chinmoy Biswas
frsthand.com/@careofchinmoy
Photography enables creators to a new career
“Burma Fishermen” by Kyaw Soe Hlaing
frsthand.com/@kyawsoehlaing251185
What services DO we
offer Busineses
and Creators?
We run an open publishing platform (Frsthand.com) that allows the professionals, experienced, less experienced, ambitious, and primarily active publishers to benefit from their photo content by choosing different monetization options.
We can provide a scale of services for businesses such as “On-Demand” Content Solutions, Ready-made content, Sponsored Calls for Content, and Sponsored Online Stories.
In our production pipeline, we are working on other advanced features for content seekers and content marketers which will be introduced in the near future.
Last but not least, we see our domain as a top-technical and legal content protection which can be offered as an advance service soon.
We can work closely with businesses daily in a B2B relationship or offer them a simple SaaS which is open 24/7 and accessible worldwide.
Our values these we are bringing to the business are:
Autonomy
Authenticity
Originality
Uniqueness
Trust
Verification
Real People Behind the Scenes
Free Of Plagiarism
Free Of AI Modification
/ Meet our team
Not only the team, but also a large family scattered globally …
Our headquarters is located in the Czech capital of Prague, situated in the heart of Europe.
OUR NUMBERS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES
$2.5M
Invested in DEV & Partnership
138
Countries we are in
11
languages
Our mission is to provide a special global, open platform solution for media, which provides original content not published anywhere else while simultaneously being a global, social medium for ordinary users.
With synergy between content creators and consumers, we created a business model, which is based on the marketing of sponsored content. Unlike other media platforms, we seek to simplify the publishing framework to the level of visual content (photo story), thus significantly opening up market space for professionals and amateurs, as well as all burgeoning content creators.
The user-generated content (UGC) that is created is trustworthy and personalized. UGC is the fastest-growing field of global content marketing andmarketers know this content has intrinsic value.
The potential is enormous because 8 trillion digital photos are captured worldwide annually. In the digital age, users seek simplicity amid overwhelming information. With shortening attention spans, the consumers of content easily succumb to banner blindness. The market needs a new solution.
We intend to capitalize on this long-term shift in the human psyche. We are focused on easy-to-consume, visual content that can be shared with and by brands. Our talent pool of creators is a growing fraction of the 600 million bloggers in the world.
We offer all our creators an opportunity to generate profit where globally only 1-2% can successfully monetize their content. Content marketing in the US makes up a market of approximately $32 billion (2023) at a growth rate of over 20%. Expenses for firms in this sphere of marketing are 10-12% per year.
Our share of the market is significantly enhanced by our ability to capture traditional customers who are abandoning mainstream media due to a lack of trust, privacy, fake news, and illegal content.
We stand behind the values that define our brand from the outside, including the freedom to express an idea, a focus on authenticity and originality, the search for uniqueness, building trust with the creator and customer, enabling verification of sources and users, working with real people, combating plagiarism and last but not least, avoiding AI modified content.
We want to be a place that builds 100% trust between the content creator and their customer, where the content readers will know that this is a place that they can fully trust and return to.
WHAT BRANDS WE DID WORK FOR
WHAT OUR CREATORS SAID
“Thanks to Frsthand, I can freely express my voice through photo essays and feel that I am not only sharing my art, but also bearing witness to my time.”
-Alessia Piscopo , Italy
“I really enjoy all the calls, I think they are great ideas and great stories too from all the Frsthanders.”
–Lia Mageira, Greece
“I love entering my photo stories, taking part in your photo contests and see other members pictures too!”
–Ritu Sindhu, Canada
“FrstHand gave me a chance to become a profession.”
–Mark Levitin, Israel