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Hi Jonathan,

thank you very much for your detailed reply. I thought it would be a complicated story with quite a bit of industry evolution mixed into it. I realized how widespread the sublicensing is when I once did a search on corbis and found my own files from getty, not all of them , just a selection it seems. After that I paid more attention and was amazed how widespread the phenomenen is.

I like to look at many different agencies before I plan a shoot, so that hopefully I can spot what is missing or what I could do differently so that although my files are simple, they will still stand out. And if my files will be sent out to so many more places than I thought, I hope it is a good strategy.

Thanks for all your responses – just to be clear: the links in my OP are not my own work, they were merely meant as rough examples / visuals. (At this moment in time, I don't yet want to (or simply can't) link to my own work, as I'm not yet in the production stage.

Beliblis

I've looked at things like that already – on several macro RM agencies. A lot of these images are rather old / legacy images from the beginnings of stock photography.
But if they're well-executed they still sell today, from time to time. A friend of mine has been with Getty for a very long time, no new submissions since nearly 10 years (he's working in a completely different industry these days) but still selling OK from what I hear.