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Does it help your sales when ditching the dime royalty agencies?

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SVH:
Just wondering here.

If you have the same photo's on different agencies and one pays 10 cents and the other 33 cents at minimum, did it help your revenue for the same photo not to have it available anymore on the 10 cent agency?

Personally, I have only a relative small portfolio but I see different photo's taken by customers from one agency to another. But if you have a big portfolio will the same buyers go to the cheapest agency or are customers loyal to their agency and do not shop around?

In other words, does it it make sense, as a contributor, to not post the same photo at low royalty sites because you would have earned more when selling it only at higher royalty sites?

Noedelhap:
Not really. Individual buyers may shop around looking for the cheapest option, but most companies have subscriptions at certain sites and tend to stick with these long term.
Other aspects like customer service, payment options and supply also play a role in choosing a certain agency.

So even though some people may find your photos cheaper elsewhere, you won't notice it significantly.

marthamarks:
I'll jump in to tell you about this very recent experience.

One of my images that Adobe Stock selected a few weeks ago for its "free" collection, and for which it paid me $5… today Dreamstime paid me a royalty of $1.75 for it.

That DT sale was obviously not huge, but the buyer paid more than they would have as a "free" image on AS.

So I'm pleased that, in just the last couple of weeks, I've made $6.75 off that image… more than it earned over several previous years.

Does that insight help?

Justanotherphotographer:
The sites can compete on price or on the quality of their collections. If you want to be continually paid less and less for your content keep on supplying the sites that pay less with your best and newest content.
Buyers would soon have to start shopping around if the sites that treated us like s**t stopped having the best work.

marthamarks:

--- Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on September 29, 2021, 03:47 ---The sites can compete on price or on the quality of their collections. If you want to be continually paid less and less for your content keep on supplying the sites that pay less with your best and newest content.
Buyers would soon have to start shopping around if the sites that treated us like s**t stopped having the best work.

--- End quote ---

I agree with that. Which is why I've abandoned iS, SS, and a few others I can't even remember now, and am focused on my own personal "big three": AS, DT, and P5.

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