Fotolia’s top selling contributors

in Stock Agencies by Roberto Marinello — September 10, 2009 at 6:49 pm | 14 comments

What are the most popular microstock clichés? Let’s discover them through Fotolia. We can visit the Fotolia’s “from this month Best Sellers” page (here a screenshot)

: Fotolia’s Bestsellers page

or we can browse round the Top Selling contributors portfolios to know them and to see what are their most popular works. A special thanks to Amos Struck for his Microstock Photo Plugin for WordPress that let me buy and insert, in a few clicks, all the Fotolia’s pictures of this post, directly with caption, referral links, title, alternate text.

Multi-ethnic pile of hands © Yuri Arcurs #5270375

A classic pile of hands, people formally dressed, business team concept.

Full Yuri’s porfolio

: © Yuri Arcurs – Fotolia.com

business team work © Andres Rodriguez #4665940

Business work team concept with the addiction of another great cliché: jigsaw

Full Andres’ Portfolio

: © Andres Rodriguez – Fotolia.com

your empty board © ioannis kounadeas #2204090

Puppet illustration with a big copy space board for slogan personalization

Full Ioannis’ Portfolio

: © ioannis kounadeas – Fotolia.com

House under construction with energy ratings © Kirsty Pargeter #10067668

Real Estate and energy saving concepts all in one photo

Full Kirsty’s Porfolio

: © Kirsty Pargeter – Fotolia.com

Smiling pretty business woman with headset © Kurhan #6166346

Typical image used for help desk and customer care purposes, pretty girl and headset

Full Kurhan’s Portfolio

: © Kurhan – Fotolia.com

And now a couple of samples from two of the Fotolia’s Italian Top Selling contributors

fiocco oro © piumadaquila.com #8026579

One of the most popular subjects: Christmas and New Year celebration, here represented by a versatile golden ribbon

: © piumadaquila.com – Fotolia.com

Full Piumadaquila’s Porfolio

wine 50 © olly #6498369

A bit of Italian Style with a charming brunette with a glass of red wine

: © olly – Fotolia.com

Full Olly’s Porfolio

If you like to explore these kind of challenging subjects (very popular but with an high quality required due to the hard competition), I suggest to visit:

202 Challenging Subjects when Shooting for Stock by Rob “bobbigmac” Davies (picNiche’s author); <<The list is built from supply/demand metrics composited across a variety of associated search phrases and queries to picNiche>>
101 B2B Marketing Clichés, an IAS b2b production, with a critic view of the cliché concept; <<Clichés are everywhere in B2B marketing. Every trade mag, most powerpoints, hundreds of websites are jammed with cringworthy specimens>>
Don’t shoot clichés? We did…, an interesting experiment by Corepics; they prepared 16 cliché photos and after a poll session they will upload the images at Shutterstock analyzing the selling trend for a month. <<Please help us by picking the best of our cliché shoot. Select your favourite three images from the list in our poll, and leave a comment!>>

Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Shooting and Selling Stock Photos by Rob Sylvan Veteran iStockphoto Inspector and Photographer Writes the Ultimate Insider’s Guide to Shooting and Selling Stock Photos. Taking Stock: Make Money in Microstock Creating Photos That Sell by Rob Sylvan. Now...
Is the Top for Microstock contributors now behind us? After more than 4 years of microstock activities, with different efforts and directions, I’d like to start from some personal experiences trying to draw a general and current state for...

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http://microentrys.wordpress.com plrang
And what about the FOTOLIAs 'watermark'.
Also if You switch the country You'll see other 'best of' i think.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mystockphoto mystockphoto
Hi Plrang,
of course these are just samples to illustrate some microstock clichés. You can find certainly others and from different countries. In my case, for the last two pics, a small tribute to my Country, Italy.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by 'watermark' but there are not present because I bought that photos.
Cheers,
roberto

http://microentrys.wordpress.com plrang
So.. that's why i was just surprised with that 'remove watermark' plugin feature. Got the same installed (my other blog) but there was no such.;)
And the 'best of' just in case somebody didn't know.
Greetings

http://intensedebate.com/people/mystockphoto mystockphoto
…strange, because if you buy a photo, of course, is without watermark . Are you using Microstock Photo Plugin v. 1.8 http://www.microstockplugin.com/ ?
Cheers

http://microentrys.wordpress.com plrang
Yeah, V 1.8 | Author: Dima Sereda and Amos Struck. Got that installed but not used jet, thus just thought there is some bug/feature;)
http://intensedebate.com/people/mystockphoto mystockphoto
Ah OK, the preview in the box search is watermarked (same on Fotolia site, I think the API used by the plugin couldn't behave in a different way) but if you finalize the purchase is all right. Correct Amos?
Best,
roberto
http://www.microstockplugin.com Amos
Hello,
thanks for using our Plugin. The watermark gets removed once you have bought the picture. We will download the picture for you via the Fotolia API and download it to your Media Library. You can use the photo as oftern as you want.
Please contact me if you need more help!
Amos

http://www.microstockplugin.com Amos
Hello Roberto, thanks for mention the Plugin. Just for your information we will have Italian Language Set included in the next version.

http://intensedebate.com/people/mystockphoto mystockphoto
Hey Amos, great to know about Italian Language and that you and your staff are developing quickly.
Take care,
roberto

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http://microstock.org.ru/ Olya
As I see, there are no any vector illustration. it's strange.

http://www.facebook.com/rmarinello.msp Rmarinello Mystockphoto
Hi Olya,
it's my personal editorial choice among the Fotolia's top contributors.
Cheers,
roberto
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