Anyone know anything about Pocketstock? I got invite via email today.

Got one too. Site doesn't look too bad a bit slow though. The offer is quite acceptable.

1. their royalties ain�t that great but looking at all top agencies don�t know..
2. they need to make it faster to submit, its quite boring to choose if your picture was taken by a cell phone or not for every file you upload, they should come up with a default option or something..
3. the payout seems a little high too $70/�60/�70

Royalty Schedule
Star Rating    Non-Exclusive    Exclusive
Orange Star (1 - 149)    30%    35%
Bright Star (150 - 1,499)    32%    36%
Bronze Star (1,500 - 4,999)    34%    37%
Silver Star (5,000 - 14,999)    36%    40%
Gold Star (15,000 - 49,999)    38%    43%
Diamond Star (50,000+ downloads)

Anyone know anything about these guys??

Read through this thread, and you'll be in the know....

http://www.microstockgroup.com/veer-marketplace/your-veer-portfolio-on-alamy/msg258149/?topicseen#new

The FTP upload is easy but there's a lot of clicks to go through after they pass review.  I'll upload some of my portfolio but will need some sales to spend much time there.

Thanks Marianne, good luck with the site.  Hope there's enough sales to keep us all happy.  New sites haven't had much success in recent years.  I hope one will make it to the top four of our earnings poll one day.

Thanks Marianne, good luck with the site.  Hope there's enough sales to keep us all happy.  New sites haven't had much success in recent years.  I hope one will make it to the top four of our earnings poll one day.

Thanks!
We know it's a mature crowded market that we're entering.... but there's still room for innovation.
 

Thanks Marianne, good luck with the site.  Hope there's enough sales to keep us all happy.  New sites haven't had much success in recent years.  I hope one will make it to the top four of our earnings poll one day.

Thanks.
You're right - new sites haven't been very successful but with innovation and experience we believe we can do well. In time of course. Nothing happens overnight!

I have more than 7000 images.

FTP is ok for me, but in new agencies i don't want to waste any more time.

Questions (i think we all have):
1) Do you have subscriptions? do you plan to have?
2) If i send you 7000 images with MR connect to the files in an Excel spreadsheet, do you take care of all the process?
3) If i want to quit selling, how much time must my images have to wait?

Thanks.

you guys need to start answering emails too

or are we going for only top contributors?

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 09, 2012, 08:01

you guys need to start answering emails too

or are we going for only top contributors?

That's exactly what I was wondering.  I hate to go through all the uploading work to have SF level sales. And the sub thing, unfortunately, is a proven model that even the likes of Pocketstock can't, in some form, pass on.

Not just Top Contributors ... I got an email from therm.   

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Quote from: luissantos84 on June 09, 2012, 08:01

you guys need to start answering emails too

or are we going for only top contributors?

That's exactly what I was wondering.  I hate to go through all the uploading work to have SF level sales. And the sub thing, unfortunately, is a proven model that even the likes of Pocketstock can't, in some form, pass on.

Not just Top Contributors ... I got an email from therm.   

and ? 

And they love me.   

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Quote from: luissantos84 on June 09, 2012, 08:01

you guys need to start answering emails too

or are we going for only top contributors?

That's exactly what I was wondering.  I hate to go through all the uploading work to have SF level sales. And the sub thing, unfortunately, is a proven model that even the likes of Pocketstock can't, in some form, pass on.

Not just Top Contributors ... I got an email from therm.   

and ? 

And they love me.   

Don't you just sign up as a contributor? I didn't see any pre-qualification process.

he is jokking

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Quote from: Mantis on June 09, 2012, 08:34

Quote from: luissantos84 on June 09, 2012, 08:01

you guys need to start answering emails too

or are we going for only top contributors?

That's exactly what I was wondering.  I hate to go through all the uploading work to have SF level sales. And the sub thing, unfortunately, is a proven model that even the likes of Pocketstock can't, in some form, pass on.

Not just Top Contributors ... I got an email from therm.   

and ? 

And they love me.   

Don't you just sign up as a contributor? I didn't see any pre-qualification process.

he is jokking

Well, SH_T if they love him maybe they will at least like me a little.

Hmmmm... maybe I spoke out of turn.  I just assumed it was a mass mailing.  I trashed it.   

haven�t got that one, only know them from here

I uploaded a small batch of images to see what their system is like and so far I am not impressed.  They accepted a few images and made them directly live, but almost all of the rest where put in a bracket to get property releases.  They are waiting property releases for things like a chess piece, row of chairs, a bed, etc....but things like a boat are fine.  Not sure what this is all about, but it looks like it might be a hassle if I had to create all these releases for non-buildings.  Oh, out of my 20 images they accepted 9, rejected 4 and the rest are in property release purgatory.

You're right - new sites haven't been very successful but with innovation and experience we believe we can do well. In time of course. Nothing happens overnight!

Sorry, what's innovative about image prices cheaper then elsewhere, as well as the same content as everyone else?
"You can guarantee that at Pocketstock we will give you the best price for any image or illustration."

By the way, what's your guarantee, since your XS appears to be 2 credits, while at IS you can get an XS for 1?  And your per credit goes from $1.38 to $1.54, which tends to be more than XS (and definitely more than SS) for example?

Also, it doesn't seem particularly innovative to not list royalty rates for new contributors on your main page: http://www.pocketstock.com/become-a-contributor You have to dig a bit to find it: http://www.pocketstock.com/textual/royalties

I don't see anything innovative on your search or the advanced search.  No search by color, or copyspace, etc.  Also, it isn't intuitive - I tried to search on apple, and then only "no people" and couldn't get it to load correctly, or at all.

So, what's your selling point to contributors?

Really, jeeze...it's another DP, PD, SF...another pimple in the microstock ass.

     It's  took  longer  than  5  days  for  my  last  batch  also.  With  nothing  better  to  do  i  can  wait.  I'll  concentrate  on  my  other  sites  and  before  i  know  it  they"ll  be  reviewed.

  Just  uploaded  a  few  more.  Tomorrow  i'm   off  to  soot  some  more.

Happy sooting 

that's  shoot

Just yanking your chain...

Received an e-mail frome them 5 minutes ago, Uploading a few pictures to see what the upload process is like, if it's not fast and smooth they can stay where they are, I found their name in the low earners so...

^^ Totally the risk of joining new MS sites.  I think that has happened to some degree on most MS sites.  Now, someone like Kozzi, they are coming in dirt cheap and maybe they will get a pool of nice images and raise their prices to where everyone else is   I wonder how many people have signed up with Kozzi anyway.  I wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole.  I've been looking for that next site and have eliminated Pocketstock, Kozzi and Pond5 based on the excellent feedback MSG has provided me.  Probably not any other site to consider and given your feedback, Pocketstock has joined the dark side.

Surprise to see a list of high profile companies that have apparently purchased from Pocketstock on their front page: http://www.pocketstock.com/
Anyone on here sold a single thing with these guys yet?
I am about to stop uploading.

zero!

zero!

Yeah I'm convinced, no more uploads for me either till some downloads start.
The only reason I was still uploading is that I hate to get out of sync between portfolios on different sites.

So excited - just had to report my first sale at PS - a whopping .28 commission earned on a .70 sale for an XL image.
Not sure how long I can stomach this.

Congratulations...I think

70 cents for XL is just nuts. Even if they say they're trying to match other sites, SS pays $2.85 for XL sizes on demand. Who are they matching for 70 cents for XL?

Good question.
They now have a subscription plan -even though their Royalties and Payment page clearly states: "We don�t currently offer a subscription model."
http://www.pocketstock.com/textual/royalties
And there is nothing I can find detailing how much we will get paid for subs - other than the % they promised you when you signed up - for me that's 40%.
But 70 cents for an XL image seems too low, considering where they were at in the beginning.

But that is what we get from Thinkstock. (not to defend the either of them) 

Edit to add link

...And there is nothing I can find detailing how much we will get paid for subs - other than the % they promised you when you signed up - for me that's 40%.
But 70 cents for an XL image seems too low, considering where they were at in the beginning.

But that is what we get from Thinkstock. (not to defend the either of them) ...

Their "packages" - subs like entities - don't have anything that comes out to 70 cents for an image - it's one size fits all (even vectors) and 63 cents, $1.30 or $2.50 each are the per image prices. The "list" prices are from $2 to $22, so that doesn't fit either.

I'm not a fan of subscriptions, but when the volume is high enough - like SS and possibly soon the IS parter program (my October royalties from that broke the $200 mark for the month for the first time) - I can live with the deal. At the end of the month the numbers look good and I think that people download more than they actually use because they know they can. The feeling that it's already paid for liberates people in a way that paying $34 for it (IS Photo+) doesn't.

I don't see any other payment options at Pocketstock, so perhaps they've done a distribution deal at those prices? Might be worth asking them. I would, but my balance is still $0 which makes the issue moot

Quote from: jsnover on November 14, 2012, 17:23

Congratulations...I think

70 cents for XL is just nuts. Even if they say they're trying to match other sites, SS pays $2.85 for XL sizes on demand. Who are they matching for 70 cents for XL?

Good question.
They now have a subscription plan -even though their Royalties and Payment page clearly states: "We don�t currently offer a subscription model."
http://www.pocketstock.com/textual/royalties
And there is nothing I can find detailing how much we will get paid for subs - other than the % they promised you when you signed up - for me that's 40%.
But 70 cents for an XL image seems too low, considering where they were at in the beginning.

But that is what we get from Thinkstock. (not to defend the either of them) 

Edit to add link

Quoting myself to add that today they have removed the line bolded in the above post.

Oh so they are reading here then, just not keeping anyone informed

Actually I did tell them it was there in a email

I got an email invitation, and I though maybe I was special - * obviously not.... oh well felt good for a little while - anyway I know I am special hahahhahhahhahhha crazy special......       dont know if I have time, wedding season has started for me as summer is coming to the southern hemisphere, so I will think about it all next winter

Me got invitation to, me special to, now everybody special = nobody special.
Ah, another Southern Hemispherer - We have a little heatwave 38-40 degrees Celsius yesterday. Winter will make now difference to me, end December is going to be my agency dead wood cutout period. Will rather not replace a dead tree with a stump. 

I've checked my sales and I've had a few vector sales for �0.20! I've emailed them to find out what is going on, they got my work by promising they wouldn't be joining the race to the bottom!!

I've checked my sales and I've had a few vector sales for �0.20! I've emailed them to find out what is going on, they got my work by promising they wouldn't be joining the race to the bottom!!

This is really the problem with microstock nowadays....a race to see who can offer the lowest pricing and consequently lowest commissions.  The real challenge for me (and I suspect most others in ms who are independent) is once you are rooted in the big four and a scattering of other sites like DP, PD, etc, where do you go from here in terms of growing your microstock income? Pocketstock is turning out to not add a lot of value, and so is stockfresh.  Most of the newer sites seem to just get cheaper, sleazier and don't offer a real differentiator that is attractive to buyers and contributors.  Now picture engine is different but time will tell.  Microstock sites have to offer customer value in order to attract them.  When is the last time we've seen a survey of what buyers want in a stock site? What I see is new sites using old business models.

I am at a crossroads as to where to take my 3000 images next.

As rookie ( when I did not know where is the best to upload) I have heard several times:
STICK WITH TOP AND MIDDLE TIER and You will have a sweet, calm sleep.

Old people in my part of world says: Donkey goes only once on ice.