No. I don't think micros are the right place for them at all unless they are very generalised.

No. I don't think micros are the right place for them at all unless they are very generalised.

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No. I don't think micros are the right place for them at all unless they are very generalised.

x3 - in addition to that, it's been my experience the micros really don't understand what is and isn't "editorial".  One minute they insist the image must be "newsworthy" and the next they're asking for snapshots of logos from "major brands".

If you're going to sell in quantity - stick with micros/royalty free.  If you're going to market an image or series of images that's going to get licensed once or twice, then market that image in a rights managed format.

Back in 2007 I shot images at the Frozen Dead Guy Festival in Nederland, Colorado.  I have a couple of those images set as royalty free images (without identifiable people and without logos) and they've earned me about $8 in total RF royalties.  I've licensed three images from that day as rights managed - one in 2007, and two of them were licensed for the last week in June on a website (the city of Nederland is selling the rights to the festival to a promoter).  The first image was used in Russia in a business magazine for editorial purposes, and the other two were used on a website for editorial reasons.  Those three sales have earned me $245 in editorial royalties.  The micros aren't going to give you that much of a return.

i use both alamy MS for editorials - in MS, editorials sell about twice the rate of my RF.  most of my editorials are travel, people in public, skiing, etc

which RM sites have people had success in other than alamy?