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Agency Based Discussion => General - Top Sites => Topic started by: RaFaLe on March 20, 2009, 03:25

Title: Exclusive images (not exclusive contributors)
Post by: RaFaLe on March 20, 2009, 03:25

Hi all,

I was recently uploading and decided to test what difference exclusive images makes to revenue, search results and acceptance or reviews.

Out of the big 6, which if the sites actually support exclusive images.
I'm not talking about being an exclusive contributor - simply the images.

So far, I can only see that Dreamstime and Fotolia support this?
Any others?

Is there any benefit to the contributor to submitting exclusive images?

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Exclusive images (not exclusive contributors)
Post by: Moonb007 on March 20, 2009, 14:59

I have some exclusive images on DT and the sale increase is not bad.  Is it worth it, kind of hard to say.  Those images might bring in more money on the other sites, but the reason they are exclusive is they are models.  I just personally hate uploading all the model forms, so DT gets all my model exclusive rights.

Title: Re: Exclusive images (not exclusive contributors)
Post by: lisafx on March 20, 2009, 15:58

I have a few exclusive images on Fotolia and don't remember any one of them ever selling at all.

OTOH I have uploaded exclusive images to Dreamstime's monthly contests and they do sell.  In fact I just sold two of them today and the royalties were over $5 each.   

Title: Re: Exclusive images (not exclusive contributors)
Post by: RaFaLe on March 23, 2009, 02:04

Ok, just realised that CanstockPhoto also supports single exclusive images.

So, these sites support single exclusive images:

Fotolia
DreamsTime
CanStockPhoto