TurboSquid and Autodesk Seek

This is going to be an interesting partnership, because it reinforces our strategy of not only making it easier to find content, but also establishing new standards for creating and storing that content. Instead of just a bunch of data, our goal is to provide you with data in a conformed fashion with metadata that is relevant. This basically means much "smarter" data. This is just one piece of a larger strategy that might take awhile to pay off, but we're doing things right by building the foundation first.

From press release

(New Orleans, LA – September 30, 2009) – TurboSquid, the world's largest online marketplace for stock 3D models, has been named the exclusive marketplace provider of user-generated 3D product models on the Autodesk Seek web service. TurboSquid provides marketplace services for Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Maya, Softimage, AutoCAD, Autodesk Mudbox and other Autodesk formats.

The agreement with Autodesk reinforces TurboSquid’s commitment to provide design professionals with a variety of options for finding and selecting user-generated product models. With the launch of Revit Market in December 2008, TurboSquid, in collaboration with Autodesk Seek, has become the largest marketplace for user-generated Revit content. Revit Market’s for-fee offering of design files complements the free manufacturer-approved content available through Autodesk Seek, the online source of manufacturer-specific product information accessible by design professionals working in Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD software.