MicrostockGroup

Editorial photos - is there a list of microstock sites that accept them?

Dreamstime (and Featurepics?) are the only sites I belong to that I know accept editorial pix.

(I also contribute to Fotolia, LuckyOliver, 123rf, BigStockPhoto, Stockxpert, SnapVillage, and 1 or 2 others.  I'm not on Shutterstock or iStockphoto yet.)   smiles - ann

If I recall Alamy's recent financial results video correctly (warning - old brain and unreliable memory) they said that 70% of their sales are editorial.  Yes, that's 70%.

They sold £25 million of pics last year and have a five year target of selling £100 million annually.

Sharpshot, hatman12, and epixx, thank you so much for your helpful information.  It’s certainly interesting that about 70%  of Alamy’s sales are editorial!

I have a follow-up question that I'll try here, rather than immediately start a new post.

At featurepics, I noticed there's an option to submit photo as Royalty Free Editorial or Rights Managed Editorial.  Are there significant reasons to choose one over the other?

Thank you epixx, that's very helpful - Ann