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Title: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: MarcvsTvllivs on July 24, 2012, 03:29
Just when I was beginning to think that they don't actually offer any of the pictures I upload for sale, there are 3 sales through their partner DDP at a whooping .49 € commission each!  :-\

Oh well, two of them are micros, so I guess those are actually good commissions. The third one is a RM picture though. How . can they sell an RM license for .49 € commission?! Price was set to "standard", which makes me wonder what happens if you set the price to "micro"...
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Michael on July 24, 2012, 04:18
DDP has much sales for mobile usings. But they also have many good high price sales...
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: wut on July 24, 2012, 04:32
Get away from them ASAP! http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/conducting-business-zoonar-way-(rudest-support-i've-ever-seen)/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/conducting-business-zoonar-way-(rudest-support-i've-ever-seen)/)

And I suspect Michael above is the rude employee I had that discussion with. Just see how the the attitude will change as soon as you decide to close the account ;) . IMO the worst agency by far I've ever dealt with. Sales are of course non existant (3 0.49€ are still counted under non existant, as you said, a joke)
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Lagereek on July 24, 2012, 05:55
Strange agency!  really professional interface, layouts, everything and yet they cant seem to sell anything. Does anybody know if they sell at all? Normally German agencies are quite good but with Zoonar? just dont know. :)
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Wim on July 24, 2012, 06:00
Strange agency!  really professional interface, layouts, everything and yet they cant seem to sell anything. Does anybody know if they sell at all? Normally German agencies are quite good but with Zoonar? just dont know. :)

So how's PM doing for you then? they had potential with some large sales but went dead pretty quick for me, but then I've only uploaded a third of my port there.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: luissantos84 on July 24, 2012, 07:07
I will get away but not now after a 15 EUR sale a few days ago and few other at the 50 cents each ;D
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: MarcvsTvllivs on July 25, 2012, 11:47
DDP has much sales for mobile usings. But they also have many good high price sales...

Sorry Michael-- I am a complete amateur when it comes to agency licensing, but what is a mobile use? And why should that make a RM file set on standard pricing end up costing less than 1 Euro? That is insane, I might as well stop selling things as RM then and sell them on Photodune (just my random example for stupidly low prices) instead.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Michael on July 25, 2012, 12:20
Mobile usings are for mobile phones, IPhone and IPads, mostly for one single view. Some agencies have new types of licenses for that short time usings. At DDP these sales are in combination with a subscription model.
If you don`t agree to these prices, you can reject the submittet photos from partner DDP. Zoonar himsef dom`t offer this prices. But you should know that DDP often has high prices sales as well
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: ctsankov on September 12, 2012, 08:47
I've had 3 sales in zoonar and reason Private ?
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Mantis on September 12, 2012, 18:24
When you look at low performing agencies like these you really have to give it time (maybe 6-12 months) before you dump them.  Uploading to low end or start up sites is always a test. I wouldn't hold your breath that Zoonar is a key player now in your monthly stock revenue. 
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Deyan Georgiev Photography on October 03, 2012, 05:04
I have there 1268 pictures online seamse 18 months (I do not remember exactly) and 0 sales, no one no two, not for one cent just ZERO!!!

I sell on more then 26 other agencies and all of them have sales and not just one. Exept Zoonar.

I Zoonar I have some very very good files which sells hundreds of times elsewhere.

I'm talking not about 100-200 images and not about a couple of months!!!

For me Zoonar is completely zero efective and I already start to thinking that something is not very corret there.I see red signal lamp...
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: JPSDK on October 03, 2012, 06:16
I deleted my profile there.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Perry on October 03, 2012, 06:47
I have there 1268 pictures online seamse 18 months (I do not remember exactly) and 0 sales, no one no two, not for one cent just ZERO!!!

Just curious, do you know how the site works and on which partner sites do you have your images on? The whole idea behind Zoonar is the partner sales, I suspect you have your images only on Zoonar...(?)
I have accepted all partners except Alamy and Getty. 3000 images and I get about 100 euros monthly (it varies quite much month-to-month, but I'd say 100 is the average)
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Deyan Georgiev Photography on October 03, 2012, 09:34
I have accepted all partners except Alamy.

About: "I suspect you have your images only on Zoonar...(?)" this is my portfolio:

http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=279349 (http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=279349)

http://eu.fotolia.com/p/202474227 (http://eu.fotolia.com/p/202474227)

http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/1780087/?facets=%7B%2225%22%3A%226%22%7D#21a174f (http://www.istockphoto.com/search/portfolio/1780087/?facets=%7B%2225%22%3A%226%22%7D#21a174f)

http://www.dreamstime.com/Deyangeorgiev_more-popular-photos_pg1 (http://www.dreamstime.com/Deyangeorgiev_more-popular-photos_pg1)

http://www.123rf.com/profile_deyangeorgiev (http://www.123rf.com/profile_deyangeorgiev)

...and more 21 agencies.

My philosophy is to sell with as much agencies as possible (only those who are serious of course)
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: fotografer on October 03, 2012, 09:56
This is my worse performing site ever.   I uploaded 600 images to them nearly a year ago and have made the grand total of less than 10$.  I have put them to all the partners except for Getty and Alamy.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Deyan Georgiev Photography on October 03, 2012, 10:41
Something is strange, if we see on the right after Zoonar are PanterMedia, Crestock, MostPhotos and many more in which I sell.

For approximately one year a heve for example in:

PanterMedia - 50.51 euros
Crestock - $25.40
MostPhotos - 54.37 euros

Of course not with 1268 pictures, may be in some of them 50% more in other 100% more images, but...
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: ClaridgeJ on October 03, 2012, 11:43
Just when I was beginning to think that they don't actually offer any of the pictures I upload for sale, there are 3 sales through their partner DDP at a whooping .49 € commission each!  :-\

Oh well, two of them are micros, so I guess those are actually good commissions. The third one is a RM picture though. How . can they sell an RM license for .49 € commission?! Price was set to "standard", which makes me wonder what happens if you set the price to "micro"...

Believe me! thats a one off or SANTA has come early.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: mtkang on October 03, 2012, 22:30
hi perry, would u mind to share usually your sales come from which partner?

the only partner sales i got are from getty..i guess it is sold as very low price as I only got a total amount with message * * * Provision via partner agencies (GETTY_IMAGES) * * *

besides of that i got a few sales a year from zoonar site, but it doesn't indicate it is from any partner agency.

I tried to use it to distribute my RM files, but so far I haven't seen it sold anywhere..


I have there 1268 pictures online seamse 18 months (I do not remember exactly) and 0 sales, no one no two, not for one cent just ZERO!!!

Just curious, do you know how the site works and on which partner sites do you have your images on? The whole idea behind Zoonar is the partner sales, I suspect you have your images only on Zoonar...(?)
I have accepted all partners except Alamy and Getty. 3000 images and I get about 100 euros monthly (it varies quite much month-to-month, but I'd say 100 is the average)
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Perry on October 04, 2012, 01:56
hi perry, would u mind to share usually your sales come from which partner?

I don't have the exact stats, but they seem to come from DDPIMAGES, GETTY_IMAGES (some of my old stuff are there), APISNETWORK, AGE, FOTOFINDER, PHOTOLIBRARY. Only very few are directly from Zoonar.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: estike on October 04, 2012, 17:49
I closed my account some days ago. Zero sales since more than 2 years. For me: Not worth to work with.
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Deyan Georgiev Photography on October 04, 2012, 23:49
I closed my account some days ago. Zero sales since more than 2 years. For me: Not worth to work with.

Someone beat my record of 18 months  :)
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: fotoroad on February 22, 2014, 17:23
I have 145 images with Zoonar and one sale for E30.00
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: fritz on February 22, 2014, 18:39
I have there 1268 pictures online seamse 18 months (I do not remember exactly) and 0 sales, no one no two, not for one cent just ZERO!!!

I sell on more then 26 other agencies and all of them have sales and not just one. Exept Zoonar.

I Zoonar I have some very very good files which sells hundreds of times elsewhere.

I'm talking not about 100-200 images and not about a couple of months!!!

For me Zoonar is completely zero efective and I already start to thinking that something is not very corret there.I see red signal lamp...

Same here! 2793 files and zero sales, nothing!
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: tavi on February 23, 2014, 02:17
   I'm contributing to them for almost 2 years, have 1435 images now and not a single sale. Seems fishy to me. i started with 50% bonus (I don'treally know what this is) and now it stays written 65%. ) sales in two years...
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Pauws99 on February 23, 2014, 04:39
A massive one sale for me - I keep hoping................................but then I'm an optimist!
Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: dpimborough on July 15, 2014, 04:35
Well only one sale in two years I stopped uploading to them it was pointless.

I'll wait for a sale to drift by maybe it'll get me to payout then close the account.

Title: Re: ZOMG I just had 3 sales through Zoonar
Post by: Mantis on July 15, 2014, 17:26
Funny, I thought I had made a sale on most photos because I got that email you get when a file sells but it turned out to be telling me someone like one of my pics. Too bad that doesn't pay my bills.