Boom! client and leading popular factual content producer and distributor Barcroft Media has launched a new content licensing division, Barcroft Images in a move that also sees the company selling its renowned content directly to media clients in the USA for the first time.

Justin Smith has joined Barcroft Images from FameFlynet Pictures in the newly created role of Director of Sales and Business Development (Americas). He will lead a sales team working from the company’s New York City office and is tasked with selling Barcroft words, pictures, footage and videos to the company’s clients based in the USA, Canada, Central and Latin America.

The company has also launched the new website barcroftimages.com where registered clients will be able to search, view and download millions of exclusive pictures and thousands of high resolution videos.