is 123rf a worthy-to-upload stock agence?

[Uncle Pete]

If you make $50 a month on SS you might make $5 a month on 123RF. Or easier, assuming you have all the same images on SS as 123RF you might make in a year, what you get per month from SS.

I won't say anything against them, but just be aware, it's not a big agency and doesn't pay huge amounts. Decide for yourself if it's worth the effort. I thought the operations and people were honest and fair.

Here's something else, if people are looking at the poll on the right and thinking, "I could make that number..."

SS - 2012
149 authors have portfolio with more than 10 000 works
5% of the SS people have 2000 or more images
The poll numbers on the right, appear to represent the top 5% of Microstock earners/artists.

So if you are one of the 5% and better, you can probably earn what the poll on the right shows, or better. Which in other words means, if you are the other 95% that poll doesn't reflect what you will make.

Back to relativity. You will probably make 8-10% of SS and 15-20% of what you make at IS, with the identical images on 123RF. Because of buyer diversity and demands it could be less. But using the poll you can at least estimate what could happen and decide from that.

What we don't know is how many poll people here, are only on the top two or top four, and how many have 20,000 images and are on all the sites reported, which makes those numbers look better than they will ever be for anyone else.

What do I mean? in 2012, 22 people on SS had over 30,000 images online. If a couple of those people/agencies are participating in the poll here, that would surely make all the place they submit to, look much better than they are. (also why Leaf has an earnings cap to prevent wild big numbers from distorting the results)

[pancaketom]

Also if you have a small portfolio and a small number of sales you will be at a lower level and make a much smaller percent of each sale. It takes a whole lot of sales to get back up to the 50% they used to have.

[Rinderart]

questions like this are hard to answer. Like every site, sales are about the work, commercial value ,diversity and numbers. 123 is very good for me and worth the time. so Impossible to answer. If ya have a few thousand?...upload is easy to test for yourself. I would and do. having a few hundred images anywhere shouldn't  determine a Honest response for advice  from anyone.

[DallasP]

I don't think I've had one single sale on 123rf this year.

[cascoly]

123  has shown a steady increase this year of 60-100% over last year, with portfolio increase of about 50%. (SS income increased about 10% with portfolio growth of about 30%)  123 are now usually my #2 after SS .   part of this may be due to their generous definition (and sales) of editorial images.   also (if you choose the option) they AUTOMATICALLY consider any rejected image for editorial so submission is very easy

[Rage]

This is my third best selling site after istock and shutterstock. The best part is the easy submission especially for editorial images.

Still way behind the leaders but the sales here are more consistent and regular than even dreamstime

[stockmarketer]

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[Cesar]

Dont upload to 123rf, you get 1/10 what you get on ss for EL sale.

subs for beginner is .21$

[MilanLipowski]

Some people will say NO, and then they are quietly uploading, lol

[lionheart]

I am just building my portfolio there. Up to now sales are slow. As others said you get 0.21 $ for a sale when being at starter level.
Nevertheless friendly people over there, two days ago one of my newly uploaded files has been inspected within two minutes 

[Noedelhap]

They've cut commissions in the past by introducing a RC-like scheme, claiming they'd double sales. Which never happened. So to that extent, they can't really be trusted.

The revenue is okay, RPD average. They're my 5th agency. 

[Maximilian]

123rf, canstock, indivstock, photodune, kozzi

All okay and without any need to choose category or similar work.
Worth to upload? I don`t know. I sell in as many ways as possible.

[amabu]

123rf, canstock, indivstock, photodune, kozzi

All okay and without any need to choose category or similar work.
Worth to upload? I don`t know. I sell in as many ways as possible.

Have you sold ANYTHING on indivstock?

[Maximilian]

yes at all
123rf best, canstock 2nd, photodune 3rd, kozzi 4th, indivstock 5th

[roede-orm]

In the light of the newly discovered Inmagin-123RF deal nobody can honestly recommend to join 123RF

[Maximilian]

that`s true

[Sean Locke Photography]

Why can't I find a link to all my images on 123 for editing keywords, descriptions, or like an overall list of what's uploaded there?

eta: I see you can't edit images after they are accepted, but is there no way to get a list of all your images, like on DP?

[disorderly]

Why can't I find a link to all my images on 123 for editing keywords, descriptions, or like an overall list of what's uploaded there?

Two ways to get to your images:

Under For Contributors, click on History.  Then from the Summary matrix, click on Accepted.  You can page through your approved images.  Looks like you can edit there as well.

Under For Contributors, click on More.  Then click on Followed.  You'll get a display of your approved images in (imperfect) order of number of downloads.  You can nominate a 5% subset for better placement in searches.