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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: littleny on August 16, 2018, 12:24

Title: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: littleny on August 16, 2018, 12:24

im a longtime contributor at
Shutterstock, dreamstime, deposit, fotolia, istock/getty, canstock, 123rf, alma

and like many of us long time contributors I've seen the fall of microstock compared to years ago.  DT, Depoits and Canstock barely produce pocket change for me these days.  Shutterstock crashed but I still have many old photos that sell regularly enough to make decent money. 
I did a google search of 'stock images' and was surprised to see DT doesn't even come up on the search.  I do see many newer sites that I don't contribute to -
Pexels, Upsplash, Canva.  wondering if these new sites are producing anything exciting.
and i do mean exciting...lol

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: DavidK on August 16, 2018, 12:33

I think you'll find the first two on your newer sites list do produce some exciting things, however revenue won't be one of them. Believe it or not those two are sites where people give their stuff away. FOR FREE. That is exciting.

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: littleny on August 16, 2018, 12:41

Quote from: DavidK on August 16, 2018, 12:33

I think you'll find the first two on your newer sites list do produce some exciting things, however revenue won't be one of them. Believe it or not those two are sites where people give their stuff away. FOR FREE. That is exciting.

i just died laughing..
there ya go

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: DavidK on August 16, 2018, 12:46

Yep, that's what we're up against.

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: christiano on August 17, 2018, 07:52

Quote from: littleny on August 16, 2018, 12:24

I did a google search of 'stock images' and was surprised to see DT doesn't even come up on the search.  I do see many newer sites that I don't contribute to -
Pexels, Upsplash, Canva.  wondering if these new sites are producing anything exciting.
and i do mean exciting...lol

Dreamstime vs Google https://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dreamstime-files-lawsuit-against-google/ (https://www.microstockgroup.com/dreamstime-com/dreamstime-files-lawsuit-against-google/)

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: obj owl on August 17, 2018, 11:09

Dreamstime were reporting more visibility on google as of May 29 in this article https://searchengineland.com/its-alive-image-seo-is-back-from-the-dead-298751

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: steheap on August 17, 2018, 14:05

Yep - it lasted all of one month!

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: obj owl on August 17, 2018, 14:35

Quote from: steheap on August 17, 2018, 14:05

Yep - it lasted all of one month!

One beat does not a pulse make.  Stocksy and Istock made the same claim do you have graphs for them too?

Title: Re: Sites that have a pulse??
Post by: steheap on August 17, 2018, 16:29

Not Stocksy. I do have iStock but I'm waiting for the individual sales to be updated in Microstockr. It didn't even show a bump in June though - and July results are worse.