The licensing desk behind the images you publish.
Fast Media is one library for everything your organisation publishes: the media you own, the images you license, and the visuals you create. Store, find and create visual content, through one account, on one proper invoice.
The problem we exist to fix
Most organisations manage images badly without knowing it. Teams re-buy photos the company already owns. Five supplier accounts mean five logins, five invoices and no overview. Licensing terms live in inboxes, and when it matters, nobody can prove the rights to anything. Finance fights consumer checkouts, and the people responsible for publishing carry the risk.
Fast Media replaces that with one desk: your own media, every commercial source and the free libraries searched together, licensed clearly, stored in one library, and billed on one proper VAT invoice.
Store, find and create
Store. Everything your organisation owns, has licensed or has created lives in one library, the Media Hub. Your own media sits in the same search as every commercial source, so before you spend a cent, you see what you already have. No agency will ever build this for you: their revenue depends on you forgetting what you own. Ours doesn't.
Find. What you don't have, you find across every source under one desk: editorial wire, creative stock, specialist and archive collections, and free imagery. Searched together, licensed with the rights, territory and print-run terms stated clearly, and documented with a license certificate behind every download.
Create. And when nothing exists and nothing licensable fits, you create it: custom imagery, generated and edited with professional tools, saved straight into your library alongside everything else.
Independent by design
The image market is consolidating. Agencies are merging, suites are locking buyers in, and consumer platforms are racing to the bottom. Fast Media is deliberately none of those things. We aggregate the agencies, the wire services, the archives and the free libraries, and we answer only to the buyer. Independence is not a slogan here; it is the structure of the business.
We work with editorial wire services, leading stock libraries, specialist collections such as Avalon, Belga, Robert Harding, Heritage and UIG, and a network of more than twenty-five content partners, all behind one desk.
What we do for your field
The same platform, tuned to how different teams actually work with visual content.
Newsrooms & magazines
A live editorial wire updated all day, deep agency archives, and commercial imagery side by side. Clear editorial licensing, a certificate on every download: find the frame, clear the rights, publish with confidence.
Books & educational publishers
Source, license and organise imagery across long projects, with territory, reprint and print-run terms stated clearly, and an archive you actually keep. Rights you can prove, years later.
Marketing & brand teams
Stop re-buying images you already own. Your brand library and every stock source in one place, the whole team on one account, and AI generation for on-brand concepts when stock won't do.
Government & public bodies
Image licensing your procurement and audit can sign off: proper EUR VAT invoicing, transparent terms, a clear trail of who downloaded what and under which license.
Education
One image account for the whole institution. Clear educational-use rights, teams and budgets per faculty, and a shared library that ends duplicate buying across departments.
Print & retail producers
High-volume licensing with print rights that are actually clear. Creative, archive and specialist sources at volume prices, with terms that survive a retail product.
Powered by AI, built with AI
Powered by AI
Generation, upscaling, background removal, editing, keywording and alt-text are built into the platform, not bolted on. When nothing exists and nothing licensable fits, you create it, and everything you already have becomes easier to find and reuse.
Built with AI
Fast Media is run by a small, independent team that uses AI as leverage: a platform that would once have needed a whole department, built and operated without one. That keeps us fast, modern and free of legacy baggage, and it keeps our pricing fair.
The Studio
Our office in the heart of Amsterdam is an exciting, flexible and unique place. We use it to work and to organise events for our clients and the wider industry — and it is bookable for events, so please get in touch if you are planning one in Amsterdam.
Company information
Fast Media is founder-run. It was built, and is operated, by its founder Marco: years inside the image licensing trade, on both sides of the counter. When you talk to Fast Media, you talk to the person who built the platform and owns the company, backed by the network of wire services, agencies, archives and partners that does the heavy lifting. Founder-run, partner-powered.
Fast Media BV is based in Amsterdam, and is also the official 123RF agent for the Benelux and Latin America: a partnership that grounds the platform in long-standing working relationships across the licensing industry.
The service provider on fastmediahouse.com is Fast Media BV, registered at the Chamber of Commerce in Amsterdam with KvK number 84820233, VAT number NL863390079B01, Vestigingsnummer 000050913484 and RSIN 863390079. Registered office: Tussen de Bogen 29, 1013 JB Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
See what one library feels like
Search every source, free. Bring your own media. License when you're ready.