This post is intended for focusing your attention on two recent articles about some different points of view of the stock/microstock photography situation.
Todd Arena on the ArenaCreative blog tries to answer this question with a realistic vision of what is necessary in microstock to earn a full time living, a possible way of life for a few hundreds microstockers but not so easy as many are telling us… - bazillion other blogs online where you can learn “How to make a living selling stock photography” – :
Following the already published Press Release Polylooks deploys iSyndica service to provide new opportunities for microstock photographers, Norbert Weber, Head of Polylooks, has just written an article on iSyndica blog Polylooks Brings European Look & Feel to Microstock
Here some excerpts:
iSyndica has teamed up with online photo agency Polylooks, meaning that microstock photographers can further expand the reach of their images to include Polylooks’ growing customer base.
As a European stock image provider with predominantly European photo and illustration contributors, we believe we bring a much-needed European look-and-feel to the microstock market which has traditionally been dominated by North American image sites. This offers European stock photo and illustration buyers far more choice and relevance when searching for microstock imagery and we’ve now got more than half a million images on our database.
We see microstock becoming more and more central to publishing going forward. Our survey found that in the UK marketing sector alone, 44 per cent of professionals legally download between one and five pictures each month, while seven per cent buy more than 11 stock images each month. In fact, while nearly half (48 per cent) do not have a microstock image budget, five per cent spend in excess of £100 each month on images, so there is huge demand out there.
Currently, Polylooks operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and the platform is available in German and English, but the partnership with iSyndica will enable Polylooks to draw on an extended pool of creative talent by reaching contributors in new territories.
Norbert Weber, Head of Polylooks
You can read the full article: Polylooks Brings European Look & Feel to Microstock
Microstock at a glance February 10, Google translation IT–>EN
Il mese che si è appena concluso è stato dominato dalle azioni di riassetto operate da Getty Images all’interno della propria galassia. Come sospettato da molti, Stockxpert ha cessato la normale operatività, chiudendo gli uploads ed i downlods diretti, invitando contributors e clienti ad iscriversi ad iStock; questi ultimi possono trasferire i crediti residui su iStock. I fotografi invece possono mettere il proprio portafoglio “congelato” a disposizione per il rinnovato portale micro di Getty dedicato agli abbonamenti, ThinkStockPhotos. E’ il lancio di Thinkstock l’altra grossa novità, un sito che si propone di fare concorrenza al leader in ambito subscriptions, Shutterstock, proponendo formule di abbonamento “casualmente” identiche ed a pari costo: “25 immagini al giorno/750 immagini al mese” per 195$. Thinkstock distribuirà foto provenienti da iStock, da collezioni Getty, da Jupiterimages e da altre agenzie del gruppo, forzando ulteriormente la direzione verso l’indifferenzazione tra RF tradizionale e microstock. In merito a questa tendenza in atto, vi consiglio di leggere l’articolo scritto da Rahul Pathak di Lookstat del quale potete trovare una mia traduzione. Coloro che hanno aderito su iStock – Opt-in to Partner Program / Partecipa al programma partner – alla distribuzione per abbonamento delle proprie foto, possono verificare la presenza su Thinkstock ricercando per ‘Nome Cognome’. Coloro invece che hanno aderito a tale opzione sia su iStock che su SXP, in una prossima fase dovrebbero trovare anche le foto di SXP, “epurate” dai doppioni e distribuite con l’etichetta Hemera (altra agenzia del gruppo, non si vede nemmeno più la homepage, si viene rediretti a http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/home/transition).
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