Over the last few months we've been working on landing a licensing deal for Zoto in the professional and college sports arenas.

On June 1st, Zoto entered into an agreement with the Charlotte Bobcats to provide a photo management system that will allow them to upload, store, organize, publish and print the photos in their repository. The project is to be deployed by the time the NBA pre-season starts at the beginning of October, and will provide facilities for taking photos from fans, and republishing the photos into media-rich albums hosted on the NBA servers. Zoto will be relying on printing from it's partner Qoop, who provides quality, user-customizable printed products.

It's an exciting prospect for us here at Zoto, and marks significant shift away from our consumer based business model.

While we have enjoyed moderate success in the consumer sector, there are simply too many companies competing in this space for us to make a noticeable dent in market share. By going vertical in the photo market we have been able to find a niche where there are very few competitors, a definite need for a better product, and a large demand by users for the images we will be storing. In short, the licensing model makes better sense for us than continuing to compete in the consumer market.

Zoto will continue to run the Zoto.com site for consumers, and the great news is that Zoto.com users will continue to get advanced features for managing their photos as we develop them for our licensing customers. Many of the features needed by this new model relate to features already desired by the individual consumers, and we will be integrating these features into Zoto.com where appropriate, and once they become available.

We would like to thank all of our users (free and paid) for using our software over the last few years! As Zoto.com remains our showcase for most of the features we provide, be assured that we will continue to prioritize feature requests and bug reports by the users.