Image licensing for government and the public sector

Fast Media licenses editorial and creative photography to government bodies, municipalities and public agencies in the Netherlands and Belgium, and the administration is built for how public organisations buy. You can order against a quote and a purchase order rather than an ad hoc card payment, and you receive EUR VAT invoices from an EU supplier established in Amsterdam. That keeps the procurement route, the supplier record and the accounting treatment consistent with the rest of your spend.

Every download carries a licence certificate stating the rights granted, the territory and the print run. That means each image can be justified per publication, whether it appears in a printed leaflet, a campaign site, an annual report or a regional newspaper placement. When a question comes back months later about how a photo was cleared, the certificate is on file with the image rather than in an email thread, so the answer does not depend on who happened to place the order.

Activity reporting gives a full download trail across seats, teams and groups. You can show who licensed what and when, per department or per project, without asking colleagues to reconstruct their own history. Seats and groups can be arranged to match how your organisation is structured, so a press office, a policy directorate and an external communications agency each work in their own space while the record stays central and readable for whoever has to account for it.

Your own archive is stored and searched alongside every commercial source, so departments see what the organisation already owns before spending public money again. Photography commissioned for one campaign stays findable for the next team that needs it, in the same grid as licensed and created media. Team libraries, projects and share links let colleagues work from the same set of approved images instead of each starting a fresh search from scratch.

One desk covers our suppliers — Solwee and Newscom for editorial wire, Dreamstime and DepositPhotos for creative stock, Pexels, Unsplash and Pixabay for free sources — and the archives and collections licensed through them, such as Avalon, Belga, Robert Harding, Heritage and Universal Images Group. That is seven supplier integrations and around 27 archives and collections behind them, independent of any one agency, so you do not need a separate contract or invoice per source. Creation tools are available where an image does not exist: AI generation, background removal and extension, keywording and compression.

Plans, seats and renewals are managed centrally, so budget holders keep one line item instead of scattered card payments across departments. Adding or removing a seat, moving a colleague between teams and handling renewal dates all happen in the same place as the licences themselves. Combined with quotes, purchase orders and EUR VAT invoicing, that gives finance a single predictable supplier relationship and gives communications teams immediate access to the images they need.

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