Seattle - Getty Images, a distributor and licensor of professional photography, on Monday announced the launch of Soundtrack, a new music licensing service developed by its recently-acquired Pump Audio unit. The service offers more than 20,000 tracks available to license for use in broadcast and film production, advertising and other media projects.

Seattle - Getty Images, a photographic licensing agency, announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Pump Audio, a provider of licensed music from independent artists for use in commercial productions, for $42 million.

San Mateo, Calif. - RockYou, a developer and distributor of Web widgets, announced that it has partnered with online music firms Snocap, Fliptrack, Pump Audio and Nettwerk Records. San Mateo, Calif.-based RockYou said that it now serves over 360 million free music plays each month on existing widgets, such as Web photo slideshows added to social networks and blogs. The deals will allow users of RockYou widgets to include select tracks controlled by Snocap, Fliptrack, Pump Audio and Nettwerk as background music for slideshows and other widgets. RockYou will also allow for the creation of Snocap MyStores on its site, so users can instantly purchase songs.

San Mateo, Calif. - MixerCast, an online media network that lets allows mixing of user-generated content with professionally-produced content, announced on Tuesday that it has signed agreements with content providers including Muze, Pump Audio, National Geographic and Getty Images. The deals will give MixerCast users access to licensed audio and video clips for use in creating mash-ups that can then be posted on community sites like Flickr or YouTube.

Hudson Valley, N.Y. - Pump Audio on Monday announced a partnership with Redeye Distribution, and will make music from independent labels and artists distributed by Redeye available for licensing for commercial productions through its service. New York-based Pump Audio operates a website where producers of television and advertising can browse and license tracks for use in their productions.

Hudson Valley, N.Y. - Pump Audio, a provider of licensed independent music for use in commercial productions, said on Monday that it has partnered with Snocap, which operates a digital music registry and powers download stores for artists on sites like MySpace. Under the deal, Snocap will promote the Pump Audio service to artists who register their songs with Snocap. New York-based Pump Audio has supplied music for clients including CBS, the BBC, MTV, NBC and Comedy Central.

Hudson Valley, N.Y. - Pump Audio, a provider of licensed independent music for use in various productions, said on Tuesday that it has partnered with online video and photo hosting service Photobucket, to provide music for Photobucket users creating photo and video mixes using the free Adobe mixing software recently added to the site. Photobucket's 35 million users may now add any of hundreds of licensed songs from Pump Audio's catalog of over 70,000 tracks to their mashup creations.