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Which are the best paying midstock (macrostock) agencies?
gwhitton:
--- Quote from: Slovenian on March 03, 2011, 18:02 ---
--- Quote from: gwhitton on March 03, 2011, 15:52 ---There are various avenues to get exposure to the midstock market, besides Alamy.
Zoonar (sells to micros and midstock...but you have to choose the pricing for each image and stick with it).
Panthermedia (sells cheap subs and midstock).
Canstock (occasionally I will get a midstock sale through their parent Fotosearch).
Veer (is borderline midstock...but I get almost zero sales, so does it really matter. ;o)
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Sorry, but aren't all of this microstock? Panthermedia is listed as micro, when I checked their site it says macro and zoonar is listed as a low earner anyway. I'd go with Alamy right away if they didn't have the 180 day notice before you're able to remove content. It's a shame wasting half a year of exclusivity if I wouldn't even make it to the first payout (but I'm aiming a lot higher of course)
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Zoonar is whatever you want it to be. Depending on the price point you set for an image, their partners will either take it or leave it. They have three levels, micro, standard, or premium, that are then broken down by image size. http://www.zoonar.com/licences
Panther is mixed as well.
I would consider these all Midstock doorways...whether you make a sale with any of them is another matter.
BelIblis:
It always depends on the image. A very high sale with Getty (about 2 months ago) was for about US$3000 – meaning about $900 for me. That's ONE sale. And from my own point of view, the image was 'nice' but certainly not 'spectacular'. It was a landscape, shot out of the window of a moving car. Mid-day, no specific 'wide-angle' or anything else like that... BUT it seemed to hit the spot with the advertising agency who bought it.
In other words: you never know. (And another indicator for me to rather submit to RM than Micro, unless it's 'obvious' micro material).
lagereek:
Well, grass isnt greener over there, just to let you know! and the admins are not on the ball. I supplied 6 Engineering shots to the Getty-RM, only a month back, they should have gone into the main-collection at Stones but by mistake I clicked the wrong button and they ended up it this stupid Photographers-Choice instead. Now they tell me sorry its too late, they cant move them, what a half-assed excuse! cant move them??
I suppose they want the 50 quid per shot, Im not paying a dime, thats it.
As one poster said above, its bad timing to look for anything right now.
Microstock Posts:
--- Quote from: lagereek on April 14, 2011, 00:17 ---Well, grass isnt greener over there, just to let you know! and the admins are not on the ball. I supplied 6 Engineering shots to the Getty-RM, only a month back, they should have gone into the main-collection at Stones but by mistake I clicked the wrong button and they ended up it this stupid Photographers-Choice instead. Now they tell me sorry its too late, they cant move them, what a half-assed excuse! cant move them??
I suppose they want the 50 quid per shot, Im not paying a dime, thats it.
As one poster said above, its bad timing to look for anything right now.
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That's so bad. What a completely unscrupulous company.
lagereek:
--- Quote from: gwhitton on March 04, 2011, 16:20 ---
--- Quote from: Slovenian on March 03, 2011, 18:02 ---
--- Quote from: gwhitton on March 03, 2011, 15:52 ---There are various avenues to get exposure to the midstock market, besides Alamy.
Zoonar (sells to micros and midstock...but you have to choose the pricing for each image and stick with it).
Panthermedia (sells cheap subs and midstock).
Canstock (occasionally I will get a midstock sale through their parent Fotosearch).
Veer (is borderline midstock...but I get almost zero sales, so does it really matter. ;o)
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Sorry, but aren't all of this microstock? Panthermedia is listed as micro, when I checked their site it says macro and zoonar is listed as a low earner anyway. I'd go with Alamy right away if they didn't have the 180 day notice before you're able to remove content. It's a shame wasting half a year of exclusivity if I wouldn't even make it to the first payout (but I'm aiming a lot higher of course)
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Zoonar is whatever you want it to be. Depending on the price point you set for an image, their partners will either take it or leave it. They have three levels, micro, standard, or premium, that are then broken down by image size. http://www.zoonar.com/licences
Panther is mixed as well.
I would consider these all Midstock doorways...whether you make a sale with any of them is another matter.
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Fotosearch looks really professional I must say, when you say parent company? you mean they own Canstock or vice versa?
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