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Stock Photography:
Thank you for visiting my website.
Below you will find the list of the Agencies I sell my pictures
through. All the stars given are my personal opinion based on
the sales experience along with their approach to problems.
Keep in mind that I do not appeal
to the rejected images. I focus on taking more and submitting
more and more. With that said, communication is a very minimal
factor when I gave the stars.
This page is last updated on
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Click on the name of
the agency to view the details
(or you can scroll down for the info on all)
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ShutterStock
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This
is a subscription based Agency. Honestly, this is the
site I sell most number of pictures. My favourite at this
time, and it has been my favourite for the past 4 years.
There are no limits on the number of images
you can upload. Site offers, ActiveX controlled Multiple Uploads
as well as an FTP option. Or if you would like to suffer through HTTP
version, that is available as well.
Commissions on this site are $0.25
however, the price structure has changed a
bit.
Here is the breakdown
of how it works.
$0.25/image if your earnings are less than $500
$0.33/image if your earnings are between $500-$3000
$0.36/image if your earnings are between $3K-$10K
$0.38/image if your earnings are more than $10K
Those total earnings mentioned above are
for lifetime earnings which means that, from the time you
started until today.
Also, if you refer someone to the site and
if they get accepted to start selling images, you will be
given a $0.03 referral for each image they sell. (Shutterstock
has the best referral program in the industry so far)
In May 2008, Shutterstock (SS) has added
an On Demand feature where the buyers pay for each image
they purchase instead of subscriptions. And the pay
outs for this is more lucrative. How much? well, here
it is
Here is the breakdown
for SMALL and MEDIUM SIZE
$0.81/image if your earnings are less than $500
$1.07/image if your earnings are between $500-$3000
$1.17/image if your earnings are between $3K-$10K
$1.24/image if your earnings are more than $10K
Here is the breakdown
for Any Size
$1.88/image if your earnings are less than $500
$2.48/image if your earnings are between $500-$3000
$2.70/image if your earnings are between $3K-$10K
$2.85/image if your earnings are more than $10K
Also, there is another service that they
offer that is called Enhanced License which is the best
value for both the buyer and the seller. Any image you sell
with an enhanced license means that the contributor (which
is you) gets $28.00 per picture.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 4 (1 hardest, 5
easiest)
Editorial: YES
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IstockPhoto
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This
is a per picture sale agency, well it used to be :)
Currently they offer, Pay-as-you-go, subscription and
Corprate Account options.
Based on your tenure and approval rating
there are limits for the uploads. This site offers one upload at a
time. Unless you download their software that is called DEEPMETA, than
you can batch the pictures and the software takes care of it.
Either ways, this is the
only site I HATE, absolutely HATE uploading my pictures
because the upload process is tedious, and if you are not
exclusive, your sales are going to be rather Hit and Miss.
Commissions are anywhere between $0.10
(which is rare) to $3.00 depending on how .
If you are new and planning
on submitting to more than one site, my suggestion to you is
to upload here when and if you have extra time. If you
are not exclusive, it is a waste of time, unless you have
the patience to upload 10 pictures a week, until you sell
250 pictures. And then, you can upload 15 pictures a
week, and so on and so on...
FTP Upload: NO
Limited Upload: YES
Ease of Upload Process: 1 (1 hardest, 5
easiest)
Editorial: NO
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BigStockPhoto
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This
is a per picture sale agency.
You can upload your files without limits.
This site offers FTP option to upload the images.
Commissions on this site are 50% of
sales. Sales are sporadic on this site. Upload process is rather
easy so I do upload to Bigstock as much as I can.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 4 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: YES
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DreamsTime
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This
is a per picture and subscription agency.
Based on your approval rating there are
limits for the uploads.
This is the only agency that lets you
sell the full rights of your images, if you opt in. How much?
Well, it depends on what you choose. You can let the site default
which is $350 if you have no uploads for the picture, and it goes up all
the way to the thousands depending on how many sales you have on that
particular picture.
Commissions on this site are 50%.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: YES
Ease of Upload Process: 3 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: YES
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StockXpert
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This
sire started as pay per image, however now they offer subscriptions
where it is $0.30 per image through StockXpert, Photos.com or
Jupiterimages. In 2008 Jupiter Images bought out this site.
You can upload your files without limits.
This site offers FTP option to upload the images.
Commissions on this site are 50% of the
sales prices. you can make anywhere between $0.50 to $5.00 per
images depending on the size. However all subscriptions are $0.30
per iamge
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 4 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: NO
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FotoMedia
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This
is a per picture sale agency.
You can upload your files without limits.
This site offers multiple uploads (12 maximum at one time.)
You can contact the site admins for FTP access.
Commissions on this site are 35% for
small images, 45% for medium images, 55% for large images. Images are
€2.00 for small images, €4.00 for medium images, €6.00 for large images
FTP Upload: YES (if you ask for it)
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 3 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: NO
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Can Stock Photo
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This
is a per picture sale agency, but they recently offered subscription.
Since the beginning of 2008, the sales are extremely down, well if you
get any :)
However this is the only site that automatically chooses your categories
for your images if you have the EXIF data. I wish the other sites would
have brought the same algorithm to their upload process.
You can upload your files without limits.
This site offers FTP option to upload the images.
Commisions are based on two criterias.
- If it is a Member Download, then you
receive $0.50 for small, $0.75 for medium, and $1.00 for large.
- If it is a Guest Download, then you
receive $1.00 for small, $1.50 for medium, and $2.00 for large.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 5 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: NO
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FotoLia
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This
site started out as per picture sales, however they offer subscriptions
at this time, too.
You can upload your files without limits.
This site offers FTP option to upload the images, as well as HTTP and
Flash upload which is similar to the ActiveX upload process, which means
EASY EASY process.
Commissions on this site are based on how
many downloads you have, which determines your rank and your rank
determines what you can charge for your photos. However the
subscription sales are $0.32, and each subscription sale counts as 1/4
of a sales when it comes to ranking. In other words, if you sell
10 pictures via pay-as-you-go, and 16 subscription sales, your sold
files that affect your ranking is 14 (10 + 4). 4 comes from the 16
subscription sales
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 3 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: NO
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123RoyaltyFree
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This is a
site that has more sales options than anything that I can think of.
They have subscription, pay-as-you-go, enhanced license, and few others
that I read once and i wanted to forget what I learned. And, as they
say "Be careful what you wish for!", I did, forget what those options
were :)
You can upload your files without limits.
This site offers multiple uploads via HTTP, ActiveX, etc as well as FTP.
My motto is, if they have FTP option, then anything else is just a waste
of time.
Commissions on this site are $0.36 per
subscription sales, and higher commission if you sell pay-as-you-go, but
as I mentioned before, it is a bit too complicated.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 4 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: NO
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Crestock |
I absolutely need to stop uploading here, and I did
stop uploading here.
This site is the worst one to accept pictures. They are on
some high horse, but it is definitely not for their own
good. Their sales are awful, they very seldom sell
something and it is almost always $0.25 subscription sale,
and this site is an absolute waste of time.
Whether you are new or a veteran, I would not recommend this
site. Not even to my enemy. Well, actually to my enemy, I
would probably recommend this site but only this site.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 4 (1 hardest, 5
easiest)
Editorial: NO
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Scan Stock Photo |
I like this site... you can have multi upload, the
comissions are 1 EURO...
Once you submit, there is
no categorizing... Sales do not happen too often but I like
the upload process. I use the FTP and then I am done.
This site doesn't generate much income, but while I am
sleeping I upload so I'm not really wasting my time.
FTP Upload: YES
Limited Upload: NO
Ease of Upload Process: 5 (1 hardest, 5 easiest)
Editorial: YES
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