Microstock Subjects: Seniors in Action Inspired by John Lund’s post “A suggestion for earning more money in Stock Photography”, always a precious source, I’ve decided to publish this post about a range of activities related to senior people that could be microstock / stock photo subject. John suggests to: “Shoot seniors. Shoot mature adults living active, vital lives… Shoot ETHNIC seniors! Shoot seniors at work, at play, running there own businesses, enjoying their grandchildren…” Seniors and renewable energy The first analysis tries to merge two strong concepts, active seniors and the hot theme “Renewable Energy”. I can mention, to underline…
Author: Amos Struck
Amos Struck
I write about the stock photo and microstock industry since 2006 on my several online-magazines. My goal for MyStockPhoto is to teach photographers and stock photographers how to sell more photos and earn money with their photography hobby.
Press Release iStockphoto Celebrates 10th Anniversary and A Decade of Creating a Profitable Community April 7, 2010 CALGARY, Alberta, April 7, 2010 – iStockphoto®, the micropayment pioneer in stock imagery, which first made great royalty-free images affordable and accessible to everyone, today kicks off a celebration of its first decade in business with cash and more than $20,000 USD in prizes at http://www.iStock10.com. iStock is globally known as one of the first social networks in the world and remains one of the few community-oriented sites to sell user-generated content, allowing its member artists to share in the profits. iStock currently…
Trying to increase the quality and the range of the themes of my blog, I’ve asked Jim Pickerell, an authentic stock photography guru, to start a cooperation with mystockphoto.org. The first article is Use Pricing Could Benefit Microstock (original posted on PhotoLicensingOptions, all the references at the bottom of the page). Con la speranza di allargare gli orizzonti di questo blog, sono lieto di annunciare l’inizio di una collaborazione con un autentico guru della fotografia stock, Jim Pickerell (trovate in calce i riferimenti), ospitando su mystockphoto.org l’articolo Use Pricing Could Benefit Microstock che affronta la questione prezzi in ambito microstock…
Microstock News started Pang! We are happy to announce our newest website about Stock Photography – Microstock News! Microstock News is a RSS Based News Aggregator for Microstock and Stock Photography related News, Blogs, Articles, Tips & Tricks and Tools. Why Microstock News? You are asking why we are doing all this work to just show the last 5 posts of some websites? If you don’t want to crunch a hundred feeds, we are giving you a one-stop-reading experience – only with the best hand picked Blogs, Magazines, Tools, Software and News Pages regarding Microstock, Stock Photography and all related…
© Miss X – Photocase.com Last year on August I published a post about the use of social networks by the microstock agencies. In the meanwhile other initiatives have been implemented so I’ve decided to reprise that post and update it here. Microstock agencies are progressively entering in the social network arena to enhance their online business, spread the word, improve branding and for direct customer care. The biggest agencies are active, with different effort, on Twitter and Facebook. The first Facebook Applications and Twitter services have been launched. Let’s see a list of the Twitter accounts, Facebook pages and…
I’ve recently discovered a website that has been started to sell stock photos. It’s Graphic Leftovers, “a microstock site for designers by designers” with a good 52% commission and a nice look. I decided to upload there all my portfolio also because they have a gorgeous iSyndica API feature that let you distribute, from the iSyndica Syndicate tab, all your images with just a couple of clicks, after the definition of the channel with the API Key provided by the GraphicLeftovers account. Nothing else, no categories, no unfinished files to review, no other actions on the GraphicLeftovers site: you will…
Shutterstock Image Library Hits 10 Million Images With over 125 million image downloads since 2003, Shutterstock is the leader in subscription royalty-free imagery February 15, 2009, New York – Today Shutterstock® announced the addition of its 10 millionth image, a milestone that underscores the company’s rapid growth and commitment to high quality, crowdsourced visual media. In a typical week, Shutterstock adds 80,000 new images – a rate of nearly eight images every minute – and provides designers, bloggers, advertisers, publications and marketers with a continuous stream of fresh new content. Shutterstock crowdsources the talents of more than 200,000 digital photographers…
Photaki is a stock photo agency where you can buy and sell photos, illustrations and vectors. Created by photographers and designers, now is one of the fastest growing archives of the Web. The origins In 2001, a group of Spanish photographers decided to pool their photos and create a collection of their region. The fast growing of the project led to www.andaluciaimagen.com. In 2009 the project exceeded all expectations and the company has begun a new stage of internationalization, with the launch of Photaki.com. Nowadays Photaki.com is a powerful tool for visual content distribution that every month incorporates over 10,000…
After a few months since the launch, Depositphotos is continuing its fast growing with a strong campaign of advertising on the net and with the introduction of a boosting affiliation program… you can find Depositphotos’ affiliation link everywhere, here too 🙂 Here an Alexa graph useful to compare the reference, iStock, with the two fast growing agency among the newcomers, Pixmac and Depositphotos (as I wrote many times, I use these data to see trends and relative market positions, they are not necessarily representing the business volumes). Just some personal statistics: 3 files sold at lower price this year, payout…
StockXpert is ceasing regular operations It was in the air… StockXpert is going to close. Here a short summary of the last Getty Images actions in the micro/RF field that are intended to drive traffic, buyers and contributors to the strongest microstock brand, iStockphoto: stock.xchng promotes iStockphoto collection as result of the searches (no longer StockXpert) The Photos.com and JIUnlimited licensing program was canceled from the StockXpert contribution StockXpert has been encouraging to become an iStock contributor The new subscription site ThinkStock is focalized on Getty and iStock imagery © OzgurGudersoy | iStockphoto.com