Crestock has been struggling for some time with backlogged submissions and poor response times to both contributors and image buyers, so for all concerned this should be good news. The scale of the microstock sector is making it difficult for small operations to continue to offer the levels of service required for continued success. It [...]
March 2, 2010
I’ve written about DepositPhotos previously so here’s a quick update to report that I have started to see sales from the modest one hundred and thirty odd images I currently have on sale. DepositPhotos made an impressive late entry into the microstock market with their contributor incentives so I’d hope their pursuit of buyers will [...]
November 24, 2009
Bandwagons keep on rolling long after there is really any room left to jump aboard. I’m really quite surprised to find there are still new microstock agencies popping up. Sure it is relatively cheap and easy to throw a site up. However, it takes a lot more effort to build a worthwhile collection of images [...]
October 20, 2009
Following on from my previous post on the current opportunities to make money selling photos through microstock agencies here are a couple of observations that I think are worth both new and exisitng contributors pondering. A few years ago early adopters of the microstock model could pretty much throw their shovel in the air, dig [...]
October 14, 2009
Let me start by making it clear it has never been easy to make any significant money in microstock photography. The contributors making good money have worked hard to build successful collections over time that bring them the rewards for their efforts. However, a few years ago it was realistic for many “Mom and Pop” [...]
October 13, 2009
Is the blogosphere the next big battleground in stock photography? Newspapers and print media are like walking wounded staggering from the cruel sucker punch the global financial crisis has dealt them. Old media companies that survive will look a lot different in whatever guise they manage to make work and there will be far fewer [...]
October 8, 2009
Despite the number of easy money and get rich quick type articles on microstock photography floating around the web I can tell you it isn’t an easy gig. Yes you can make money selling your photos on microstock sites but it does take a fair amount effort, in addition to photography skills, creativity and some [...]
September 11, 2009
I almost titled this post “extended licences and the microstock myth” just to fling a cat amongst some pigeons! After checking some stats across some of my stock photography outlets I’m again noting how microstock is becoming more and more important as part of my photography business. A couple of new sales really highlight this. [...]
April 9, 2009
The usually heated debate about the merits vs inherent evilness of micro stock photography is really tired and, frankly, academic by now. Like it or not micro pricing is a reality and the only real question for stock photographers is if and how they want to be active in this section of the market. It’s [...]
July 2, 2010