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Which are the best microstock agencies for the contributors?
The total earning coming from an agency is not the only thing to consider but it’s certainly one of the main driver to pick up your list. Then you can deal with the upload/submission procedure, the fairness of the agency, the review policy and timing, the support quality, the project liking.

Here my top eight list graphed in a pie with the percentage earning per agency, from the beginning of the year to October 21st, about a ten month period.

moodboard will be suspending all uploads to its microstock collection from 15th October 2010 to focus their efforts on the Premium content collections.

Zoonar presents with AGE/THP another heavyweight in the global picture market as a new content partner. You can now activate all of your photos for AGE/THP. The price level of your pictures is not important, i.e. you can activate your images whether they have a microstock, standard or premium price level.

isignstock offers contributors bonus: Ingram Publishing opens iSignStock site to contributers and offer some cash for uploading

PantherMedia, the largest German Microstockagency for royalty free images, celebrates its sixth anniversary on October, 18th.
PantherMedia offers 6-year-anniversary special offers for its customers and newsletter subscribers

otolia and deviantART announced today their plans to blend the international microstock business of Fotolia.com with deviantART’s worldwide social network of artists by launching the “deviantART Stock Project with Fotolia.”

Graphic Leftovers values all of our contributing vector artists and photographers. We understand how much time and dedication our contributors invest into each image, so we feel they should be compensated fairly for their efforts. Each of GL’s contributors earns 52% of each sale including all extended licenses

As we’ve learned to say “Another one bites the dust…”, Deutsche Telekom announced the closure of the microstock agency Polylooks that was probably not able to reach the desired position in the market. The “European Style” wasn’t enough…
This is the announcement via mail

Zoonar, a German Stock Photo Agency, will implement by 2010 a number of new content partners to gradually build up a worldwide distribution network. As the first new partner, we have now unlocked Alamy. Alamy is one of the most profitable agencies.

Let’s give space and voice to different microstock approaches, fairer policies, such as YAY Micro. Yaymicro is an online marketplace located in Oslo, Norway, where photographers around the world can sell their images directly to customers. The commission is 50 % to contributors on all single image sales. For subscriptions the commission is 1 euro per download, new affiliation program ready.