Is it time to give Crestock another try?
Acquisitions of microstock agencies by more traditional stock agencies have been a common trend over the past few years. Both micro and macro..
Category: Agencies
Zoonar and Polylooks Upload Bonus Offer (Offer Expired)
The stock agency Zoonar announced earlier this month that they will pay contributors 0.15€ (20 Cents) per image for the first 200,000 images accepted by one of their partners Polylooks…
Apr 28, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post
Microstock Sites Spring Clean
This month two well established microstock sites, Bigstockphoto and 123rf released their revamped looks. Both sites have focused on ease of use and simplicity, which I mentioned in “Shutterstock gets bigger” was desperately…
Mar 21, 2010 | 5 comments | View Post
100 Dollars to Upload Ain’t Bad!
Putting your images online and trying to sell them can be rewarding, frustrating, profitable, disappointing, thrilling, tedious etc. Often people have the misconceived idea…
Dec 17, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Shutterstock gets bigger
In my last post I predicted that it was only a matter of time before BigStockPhoto introduces subscription packages to it’s site. Well, today the most successful subscription based microstock agency announced that it has purchased BigStockPhoto. However, before you contact me asking about how much I charge for clairvoyant sessions. I’m happy to tell [...]
Sep 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Well, at least the weather was nice!
Summer is a wonderful season, good weather always helps to put a smile on peoples faces. However, summer doesn’t tend to do wonders for microstock sales. And this summer, in my opinion, there was extra negativity going around due to the dictate of fairly new circumstances. Shutterstock is predominantly a subscription based microstock site, for [...]
Sep 12, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
And Remember, Don’t Send Us Your Shots Taken From a Plane
I’ve counted 17 countries that I’ve been to in all, which on the brag scale isn’t a massive amount. However, I’ve flown in a lot of planes and virtually the only thing I enjoy about this form of travel is..
Aug 18, 2009 | 3 comments | View Post
Super Gaffes
We all make mistakes. God knows I make plenty and before you all shout in chorus “Your blog, it’s a mistake!” I would just like to point out some larger gaffes. There was an article on Smartmoney recently called “Small Business: How to Beat a Goliath“. It focused on how a microstock company was the [...]
Mar 24, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post
What? Keywording? I thought I was a photographer!
So you’ve done your shoot and if like me, you’ve toiled with Photoshop. Right, lets send those amazing pics to the world. Wait, you can’t. You have to keyword your images, using words that you think a potential buyer will use in their search. What if spent my youth bunking off school and my spelling [...]
Jan 09, 2009 | 6 comments | View Post
It’s official – Dreamstime is the BEST agency!
Ok this might not be entirely accurate. As the officialness is derived from a poll, which a grand total of 109 people took part in, including myself and I chose the winner. Woohoo! Wish I had more luck choosing horses.
These are the results of the poll which was taken in the Microstock group.
Poll
Question:
For Independent Submitters [...]
Jan 07, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
They said, “turn photos sitting on your hard drive into cash!”
Having teething problems, but staying resilient none the less. I’m new to all this and a little surprised, at how difficult it is to get images accepted on these sites. Wasn’t the Microstock industry a way of turning photos, sitting on your hard drive into cash? It’s not as easy as they make it sound. [...]
Jan 03, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post
