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Infographics platform Visually has launched a

marketplace

to connect designers with those needing infographics, such as news outlets.

The platform will also provide opportunities for journalists and storytellers, as they can be commissioned work on a data visualisation that requires journalistic research, Stew Langille co-founder and chief executive of Visually told Journalism.co.uk.

News outlets, or those who want to commission an infographic, do so by using the marketplace , paying from $1,495 for a design or requesting a "design and storytelling" package for $2,995.

The launch of the ecommerce and project management part of the platform taps into "Visually’s vibrant community of more than 45,000 designers," the company said in a release. It links up those requiring a visualisation with its community of designers, data journalists and analysts, Langille said.

He added: "We built the marketplace in order to enable collaboration among the various parties that are needed to make infographics and data visualisations.

"There is a great need for storytelling in the visual realm and the skills that a journalist brings to the table are extremely valuable. One of our goals with the marketplace is to provide people with storytelling skills and journalism expertise a platform that they can use to exercise this." Visually launched in July 2011 as a platform to enable users to explore and share data visualisations. This July it repositioned as a "social network for infographics" .

Visually also offers a few free tools that enable anyone to create an infographic, such as this one for comparing Twitter accounts (here we have compared our @journalismnews channel and @journalismjobs channel ), and this one for tracking the "life of a hashtag" .

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Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)

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