“BrightQube is not only providing creative professionals with innovative technology, we are providing access to a collection of over two million images including leading brands of royalty-free and a selection of high quality, lower priced microstock imagery for everyday.”

With two ex VP’s of DigitalRailroad under its hood, and an undisclosed series A funding, BrightQube just launched a very web 2.0 RF portal mixing microstock and pro photographers. Offering already more than 2 million images, BrightQube offers a new approach to search results as it displays hundreds of very small thumbnails on one page, a bit like the old electrical traditional lightboxes used to, in order to rapidly zoom in the appropriate image.

This is the first time, to my knowledge, that traditional RF and microstock find themselves together on the same platform. 17 RF companies are listed, including Corbis and ImageSource, but no microstock agencies are officially present. A quick search with main microstock companies name only made Dreamstime content appear.

The engine is extremely fast, very appealing and seems to return the right content. Some of the functonalities are still a little buggy, at least on a Mac Firefox platform.

[1] You can play around with it here.