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To humanize your brand and truly make a site your own, you need to have access to the highest quality visual assets available. Images are an essential, powerful and indispensable storytelling tool. Audiences are much more likely to engage with and share content that features vibrant imagery. Brightspot has partnered with the world’s leading image providers to ensure you can find the right image for the right story, every time.
With the Brightspot AP Images integration you can:
- Use federated search to find images to use within articles, galleries and more.
- Import the photos from AP Images in a more flexible, fast and reliable way within your own interface.
For more information, see our full documentation.
Want to see the Brightspot AP Images integration in action? Set up a demo with our team today.
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Inside Brightspot: Integrated search
The AP plugins enable federated searches of Associated Press images directly from the Brightspot search panel. External content retrieved from a third-party repository can optionally be imported into Brightspot and used as any other asset.