MicrostockGroup

So we often get asked if we can share some stats. Here are a few to wet your whistle. All are as of Sept. 30/07.

• 2.4+ million registered members
• 37,000 contributors
• 27,000+ images added per week (out of 45,000 submitted)
• 90+ inspectors
• 2 billion thumbnails served in Sept. 07 (as mentioned earlier)
• ~130 million pages served in Sept. 07
• 53% of sales are from the US

Cheers

You mean like Lucky Oliver?  (Ha ha, couldn't resist!  )

Anyway....yeah, I agree totally.

There are only 160 diamonds.

And only 2,300 golds.  Of those, only 260 are exclusive.

These members probably account for at least 80% of all sales.  Perhaps 90%.

There is a serious shortage of quality, volume stock photographers.

How do you know this? Are there any other fun stats you know?

I would love if iStock would start raking of photographers like fotolia used to do (but since v2 it has been stuck on the same number)

I'm ashamed to admit that although IS was the first agenecy to accept me, in the two years I have been there I have only gotten 47 images accepted (somewhat less than 50%).  Every couple of months I try and concentrate on them but get distracted by other agencies where my portfolio is larger and so is my return.  For the last four days at IS I have been sitting 37 cents short of a payout with no dls.   This is not a cry for help, just venting, I know it's my own fault.
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