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Austockphoto – new player selling royalty free in Australia
clairebonnor:
Hi guys!
Just wanted to let you know about Austockphoto – a new kid on the block that photographers 'down under' might be interested in checking out, if you haven't already. The site launched late last year and so far is gaining good momentum. The collection is entirely Australian content – images shot in Australia of Australian people and places.
Contributors receive 50% of the royalties from every Exclusive Basic License and 75% of every Exclusive Additional License purchased.
Keen to hear what you think: newbielink:http://www.austockphoto.com.au [nonactive]
Next intake should be in around Aug/ Sept.
namussi:
The collection is entirely Australian content – images shot in Australia of Australian people and places.
What is the benefit to consumers of that?
iStock has 289,733 images with the keyword "Australia".
Why would I want to sign up with yet another agency just to get pix of Australia?
Perhaps there's a nationalist advantage -- Australians wanting to support Australian providers?
But there are only 25m people in Australia.
A tiny market.
And customers would still need to sign up to other agencies to find pix of non-Australian stuff.
I wish you luck. But I can't see a compelling business reason for the agency to exist.
PS Will the owners make a commitment not to sell out to a bigger foreign agency? Remember how iStock in the early days used to sell itself on being independent and a scrappy outsider that was not one of the big boys?
And then the owners took the Getty money and ran.
From "four legs good, two legs bad" to "four legs good, two legs better".
Chichikov:
--- Quote from: clairebonnor on June 11, 2017, 20:42 ---Hi guys!
Just wanted to let you know about Austockphoto – a new kid on the block that photographers 'down under' might be interested in checking out, if you haven't already. The site launched late last year and so far is gaining good momentum. The collection is entirely Australian content – images shot in Australia of Australian people and places.
Contributors receive 50% of the royalties from every Exclusive Basic License and 75% of every Exclusive Additional License purchased.
Keen to hear what you think: www.austockphoto.com.au
Next intake should be in around Aug/ Sept.
--- End quote ---
I plan to start a new site in Liechtenstein.
The collection will be entirely from Liechtenstein content – images shot in Liechtenstein of Liechtenstein people and places
Wish ne good luck!
qwerty:
Geeze everyone wants the new players to come with something different and as soon as they do, you complain.
Australia's GDP is around 13th in the world, GDP per capita is around 10th.
No need to be so negative all the time. Lets concentrate our negativity on the agencies that actually deserve it :)
ShadySue:
Actually, a localised specialist agency is a very good idea. I know of one (RM) which has survived for years supplying photos of a much smaller country than Australia (used to be 'general', then specialised).
Good Luck @OP.
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