MicrostockGroup

Why can't we all know?

me too me too ..i wanna know why also!

Google is yer friend. (thanks Keith/Zymm for the research)

The points have been made. They do have deep pockets since they took the submitter market by shock, awe, and $$$. They have a marvelous collection by now, posing a real threat to thinkstock and perhaps shutterstock. The bad English issues have been solved. The reviewers know their job since it's the first site I know of that rejects for bad isolations or isolations on other backgrounds than black and white.

It remains to be seen how they will take the buyers market. But having deep pockets, they can outsource the marketing to a US company very well.
Comparing with under-capitalized ventures like FP, LO, CC, they have a leading edge. If they fail, it won't be because of money and that was my point.

Since for now, they just have a virtual address in a Florida mailbox-suite, there is still the risk they will fall back in the Albumo scenario after 6 months. The longer they exist, the more big names that join them, the more trust they will generate.

Their stock images business model doesn't show connection to depositfiles business model.

I am pretty sure that they won't upload images to depositfiles and kill depositphotos content because that content needs to earn money.

Also, since related to depositphotos they can faster close any copyright infringement related to illegal uploads on depositfiles. And, that way looking on this matters I see depositphotos as one plus source which can fight against piratized electronic-form items.

So, it looks pretty safe to have some (maybe not total) confidence in depositphotos.

Regarding they are Cyprus incorporated that only says they are very smart and that they mean to do real business. That with Cyprus equals on some way companies incorporated in Northern Ireland which also has low tax climate and that also gives many operational advantages against competition which can't legally tweak it's own or it's content suppliers earnings with lowering tax rates when available as options.

Anyway they have earned respect for what they've done until now. I am sure that confidence will grow as well as sales in the future.

I like to see serious players competing with Getty's satellites in any time and on any place - even if that comes from east or far east!

Get going full speed and smash them DepositPhotos!

I had excatly this question in mind just week ago - BigStock + CS by published stats do earn together usually less then 10% of total microstock income, even those with larger portfolios do earn there few bucks per month. I have average portfolio about 300 pics on SS and DT and 130 at IS - it took me two years to get first $100 from DT. With sales 3-5x higher then BigStock+CS, how long till first paycheck? Deposit have great bonus program and its a chance to be there amongst msall start group of contributors and build a good search rank, unlike BigStock or CS (where all those old-timers have search rank 1000% above newbee). Chance to get first $100 from Deposit very fast was the main reason to join them - even if they fail, at least it will show some money - you couldnt say that about BigStock or CS. One is owned by SS (high chance to be closed exactly like StockXpert by Getty), second owes money to contributors and both show weak results. 

And about personal info - remember you did post passport to SS? Remember all those nearly criminal or criminal treatment of contributors there? I mean all those accounts deleted without any chance to defend, all money claimed etc. - this is not exactly the proper way. And all agencies more or less behave that way, so I would say too loud Deposit is bad...

Well... You can't really count that Canstockphoto has so low rate because it shows it's content on Fotosearch also. You must find right curve for that too... So, it is the fact that Canstockphoto has more traffic and exposure than depositphotos for now despite curve you see in that stats!

Why wasting time with third rate agencies ?

They're not even agencies in fact, DepositPhotos is an offshoot of a well known
warez site.

It looks like they paid people to upload 1 million of photos already