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« on: October 01, 2016, 07:57 »
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Hello,

im new in this forum! I upload since 5 years by the way travel/architecture/nature photos to fotolia, shutterstock, 123rf and istock.
I have a portofolio of each 600-700pictures. In 2015 i had a good year. I sold a lot of pictures and my portfolio had like 300 pictures each, and a few top sellers.
Since a few weeks i uploaded more and more pictures but i dont sell anything anymore.. also not the old top sellers..its like noone want to buy my pictures anymore.

Is it the same for anyone or do i do something wrong? Did I miss something important which changed? I know that there are allready millions of pictures and that this is a dramatically change. But with a portfolio of 700 pictures i should earn some money like in the past right?

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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2016, 09:54 »
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microstock industry growing day by day, number of the images on sale are increasing rapidly... that increase of image numbers are too much I think... decrease on the earning is normally in this case, here is a sample, my earnings is almost four times down at the last 3 years and still continues to decline, I don't know how far it will go on like this...
« Last Edit: October 03, 2016, 09:59 by madman »

« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2016, 10:17 »
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history repeats itself. what happened to the working photographer when digital cameras replaced film, and before that when 35mm replaced view camera and studios,... microstock now reaches a saturation point of being too much paying too little.
global economy is also the reason. where in USA, UK,EC, etc a buck means nothing,
it is alot in other countries where even minimum wage in our country is alot to someone in another.

we can only face reality and move on. perharps try something new,
join Stocksy, etc... where they do not cater to the apples, marijuana, tomato, telemarketing agent, business man ...on white.
we don't hear much of them coming in here to whine and balk..
so maybe this is where we should go.

forget microstock, ... unless you decide to move to a 3rd world where 30 US bucks is like
sufficient and a windfall. because that is who you are competing with in ss, fotolia,etc..
these days.

« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2016, 23:14 »
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Now microstock is a game of musical chairs


 

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