Hi Jonathan,

Many thanks! Sending you a PM tomorrow..

All agencies mentioned (besides Alamy and Zooner I presume) are exclusive agencies or at least require image exlcusive submissions. So I can't imagine that these suggestions qualify to the OP's question.

Corbis is not image exclusive, at least not if you don't want to.

Quote from: lagereek on February 03, 2012, 02:10

Why Getty via Flickr?  thats no good, why not try for the real Getty RM,  if your stuff is original, that is. Also you have Masterfile and Corbis, although Im not sure Corbis is selling anything nowdays.

I know this discussion is about RM, but anyway:
Corbis IS selling things. Through one of my RF-agencies, I've got images with Corbis. They're doing alright.

I'm debating whether Getty RM is still worthwhile my time. Sometimes I get a real good sale there (3-4 digits), but most of them are selling for less than RF, thanks to their Premium Access scheme. Quite a lot of sales for a low 2-digit figure with licensing times of 4-7 years... which kind of makes it RF anyway.

Nowdays, Corbis will just refer you to Veers, their own RM section hardly sell anything. I know a few of really prolific suppliers to the Corbis RM and they hardly see anything worthwhile.
No matter how you twist and turn it, when it comes to RM, the actual Getty-housecollection, is the place to be in. They do sell indeed.

Back to the topic of making money on RM, i read on this forum the other day that there's a guy who has 80,000 photo's on alamy.   Ok, that's alot, but it does present some great possibilities.  He doesn't really edit his photo's, and just posts and keywords them.    I suppose if you have some talent, go to some interesting places and post THOUSANDS of photo's to alamy, you can make some serious $.   I know it's alot of work, but isn't preparing each individual photo for MS alot of work?  I'd rather take  more photo's and not spend my life in photoshop personally.    but i could be wrong, i am not making any $ off my work yet.   I think i may try the "throw alot on Alamy" method, if they let me.   

Back to the topic of making money on RM, i read on this forum the other day that there's a guy who has 80,000 photo's on alamy.   Ok, that's alot, but it does present some great possibilities.  He doesn't really edit his photo's, and just posts and keywords them.    I suppose if you have some talent, go to some interesting places and post THOUSANDS of photo's to alamy, you can make some serious $.   I know it's alot of work, but isn't preparing each individual photo for MS alot of work?  I'd rather take  more photo's and not spend my life in photoshop personally.    but i could be wrong, i am not making any $ off my work yet.   I think i may try the "throw alot on Alamy" method, if they let me.   

yes, he's Jeff Greenberg, he often writes in the Alamy forum, he reported 5-600 sales per year on alamy.
it's a lot but it's also a very small payout if you think he's got 80K images in store !

his pics are basically snapshots straight out of the camera, he probably just set Auto Levels on photoshop, save the file as JPG, and upload to alamy.

he's definitely showing us that there's indeed a market niche for his obscure subjects but i wonder how long it takes to do all the keywording !