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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: oboy on June 16, 2009, 10:16
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Here is a list of German Agencies:
http://www.adpic.de/ (http://www.adpic.de/)
http://digitalstock.de/ (http://digitalstock.de/)
http://www.pitopia.de/ (http://www.pitopia.de/)
http://www.polylooks.de/ (http://www.polylooks.de/)
http://zoonar.de/ (http://zoonar.de/)
http://www.panthermedia.net/ (http://www.panthermedia.net/) (accept images with English keywords - automated translations)
Do you know if they accept images with English keywords and they will translate the keyword into German? Do you know of any other German sites that sell RF licenses and deal with images that have English keywords?
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You might want to add shotshop to your list. They are midstock (30 Euros per image, regardless of web or print). There's a monthly upload limit that starts with 30 images for new photographers and changes according to your acceptance rate. I haven't had any sales there yet (only started there 8 weeks ago), but from what others say they seem to have regular sales. I like the site a lot, I must say. Whether they accept English keywords, I don't know. But I don't think I'd recommend keywording in English if you're trying to reach German Buyers - wouldn't rely on any site's automatic translations (maybe except for istock. Otherwise, as you probably know, fotolia is the leading stocksite in the German speaking countries.
Otherwise, I can't think of any other German agencies that are not on your list.
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http://www.polylooks.de/ (http://www.polylooks.de/) on your list is a brand new one backed by Deutsche Telekom, but I think they are having trouble with foreign (non German) submitters at the moment. The tax man is slowing things down again....
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There is also http://www.imagebroker.net (http://www.imagebroker.net)
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... But I don't think I'd recommend keywording in English if you're trying to reach German Buyers - wouldn't rely on any site's automatic translations (maybe except for istock. Otherwise, as you probably know, fotolia is the leading stocksite in the German speaking countries. ...
Looks like Fotolia does an ok job with the translation. So why not others? It would takes to much time for me to create another set of images with German keywords.
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Photocase belongs on this list too: http://www.photocase.de/ (http://www.photocase.de/)
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... But I don't think I'd recommend keywording in English if you're trying to reach German Buyers - wouldn't rely on any site's automatic translations (maybe except for istock. Otherwise, as you probably know, fotolia is the leading stocksite in the German speaking countries. ...
Looks like Fotolia does an ok job with the translation. So why not others? It would takes to much time for me to create another set of images with German keywords.
Fotolia does an awful job with the translation - at least the other way round (I mean from German to English). And they admit it (at least on the German Fotolia Forum). The photos of foreign contributors often have the weirdest keywords in German.
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Hmm... How is the translation with Panthermedia? My view are very low there - no sales. The translation could be one of the reasons.
I added the list of German stock agencies to my resource page http://photo.hlehnerer.com/Resources.html#StockPhotography (http://photo.hlehnerer.com/Resources.html#StockPhotography) with a link to the Alexa Traffic Rating. Some of the statistics don't look to bad.