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Thanks for the invite.

I'd just like to say that I'm not sure if all these new sites is all that great and I personally will not be submitting to more sites.  I find it a waste of time to submit in hopes of success.  The only new site I'm looking to get into is Corbis - and thats even a question mark because I don't know their terms - but you know that they will try and make a good splash.

I received an invite as well - they offered to pay me $250 if I uploaded 1000 images (to be a member of their "elite 100 club"). I briefly checked it out - looks to me to be far too early to make it worth my time to join: apart from a few of anomalies, their top selling images have been DLed only once!

... still, I'm tempted by the $250. I'm suspicious that they'll become inordinately picky about accepting images once people near the 1000 mark, so I'll pass on this for now.

Here's the link for those curious about it.

I understand it this way: you upload a 1000 images and then you are in the club. After that for every image you upload you get 10 cents. In this way cou can earn max $250. But that also means you have to upload 2500 images in addition to the 1000, equals 3500 images.


Well thats a step in the right direction for an agency to start, but for me the deal is not good enaugh yet..

I like to join new sites, I give them a year and if they haven't taken off I am gone. So I joined Albumo today, my short experience so far: US based site, registration is easy, they don't ask for copies of documents etc, choice of three upload methods: web-based (5 images), java (max 150mb) and ftp (max 1GB), min requirement 800px and a max limit per image of 150mb (brilliant for some of my fractals), approval time was around 6h (love it!) and my approval ratio so far is 100% (love it even more!). They pay for uploading: 250-999 images uploaded $25 and then for each image 10cents. No categories (there are optional ones, but I ignored them), java and ftp work smoothly and fast and it reads meta data. From upload queue you have the possibility to batch edited things if you want and push all images at once into the approval queue, pretty straightforward and easy. So, tonight I will set Filezilla to work and upload my whole portfolio  Here the link to my Portfolio SY

Well, i try to join to this new site, and i like it!
Very nice, clean look, easy and fast...

And i already have a sold...
http://www.albumo.com/affiliate-referral/320/home

Fotolia requiered one year=364 days as they paid for submitted images.  I think it is only just. SY

Things that called my attention in the agreement:

By uploading content, intended for sale, such as images, photographs, illustrations files, Member agreement to give Albumo.com and all members of Website, through the direct use of Website, perpetual, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use Content for any purpose including publication, displaying, modification, and creation of derivative works. (Other members can use my images for free???)

By uploading photographs, illustrations, video files, animations, data files, and other material (“Content”) to Albumo.com, Member gives Albumo.com, a perpetual, world-wide, non-exclusive privilege and license to use, reproduce, publish, market, sublicense and sell to third parties any Content uploaded or moved by Member to the sale folder in accordance with our Content Upload Rules and accepted by Albumo.com.
although I see elsewhere that we can remove them:
Albumo.com has the right to license Content, which is intended for sale, up until the time Member removes such Content from the Website.

Uploading of the Content found on other stock photography sites also results in the termination of this Agreement and your membership." (but I didn't see any point that it refers to exclusives only, as it seems the case, as next they speak of non-exclusives)

Regards,
Adelaide

It looks pretty good for a new site....I tried to do some searches and they came up pretty well.....i must say it looks good....will KIV and may join it...

What is so good about it?  From what I here they are accepting everything (good to reach the 1000, but bad from a designers perspective).

What makes a site good is sales.  What makes you think this will be better than any other new site that doesn't find its feet. (I understand it is too early for them to be having sales but what sets them apart etc - ie. I support LO as it has a quirkyness that the other sites dont).

Yeah, they are doing a couple of things right. One, they had a fully functional operational site up before releasing it, and they are spending money now to get the images, which implies a commitment.

Of the 3 new sites I have seen in the last few weeks, this appears to be the best.

But you're right - no sales, no business

yeah it looked good to me until I realized they sell ALL the photos at $1 no matter what size .......

lol jacus, unfortunately I am already signed up
Thank you for the information, this makes more sense, back to uploading then.