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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: RacePhoto on November 19, 2008, 15:15

Title: How Many Sellers?
Post by: RacePhoto on November 19, 2008, 15:15
I found a news article that says IS has 60,000 contributors. Someone mentioned that SS has 120,000 contributors.

Can anyone add anything to this, corrections welcome, even good guesses?  :)

SS = 120,000
IS = 60,000

FT?
BS?
DT?
123?
StockXpert?
Title: Re: How Many Sellers?
Post by: bittersweet on November 19, 2008, 15:49
contributors and members are two different stats.  Not all members are contributors and there are many more members than contributors.
Title: Re: How Many Sellers?
Post by: RacePhoto on November 19, 2008, 16:06
Quote from: whatalife on November 19, 2008, 15:49
contributors and members are two different stats.  Not all members are contributors and there are many more members than contributors.

Good point. The question has been modified.
Title: Re: How Many Sellers?
Post by: massman on November 20, 2008, 10:20
And not all contributors are active.
Title: Re: How Many Sellers?
Post by: saniphoto on November 20, 2008, 10:36
DT has more than 50.000 photographers and growing, SS is more than what you have there already...  129.000 today.
Title: Re: How Many Sellers?
Post by: RacePhoto on November 20, 2008, 12:01
Quote from: massman on November 20, 2008, 10:20
And not all contributors are active.

I understand that some people may have signed up and never got accepted or uploaded 2 files and dropped the idea, or never sent in anything. It's just a count of how many people have signed up as contributors. Active is a whole different question and I don't know how anyone could find that. Consider this totally unscientific, just for entertainment.

saniphoto, thanks for the update.

FT?
BS?
DT?
123?
StockXpert?

Anyone have any questimates?  :)
Title: Re: How Many Sellers?
Post by: Phil on November 21, 2008, 22:18
a few months back (maybe 6?) fotolia mentioned how many contributors they had and I can remember but it was slightly higher than SS

of course if a site just made a figure up for number of images or contributors you cant tell.

a little while ago there was a thread discussing number of active contribs. it was guessed at 70-80% inactive and would never reach pay out look at fotolia rank thread, it gives a rough idea of how active / number of contrib's

about a year old on that thread - quote araminta
On DT, you can easily get similar interesting info by searching for contributors... 18'000 contributors, 60% with less than 10 downloads (!), 20% with more than 100 downloads, 3% with more than 1000 downloads.

Phil