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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: melastmohican on October 21, 2009, 15:12

Title: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: melastmohican on October 21, 2009, 15:12

I sold 3 images on both this year. It means that Veer is growing faster :-)

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: Lcjtripod on October 21, 2009, 16:48

Wow! They are zipping along about as fast as a three legged turtle in deep sand! Now I know why I did not join the excitement to join them!

-Larry

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: melastmohican on October 21, 2009, 16:59

It seem like any agency started after 2007 will have very slim chance for success. I think VM is waste of money for Corbis. They should have bought any of top 6 before they started trying to make it from scratch.

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: Tim Markley on October 21, 2009, 17:21

I'm impressed that you had a sale on Yay.

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: cidepix on October 21, 2009, 17:54

Quote from: Lcjtripod on October 21, 2009, 16:48

Wow! They are zipping along about as fast as a three legged turtle in deep sand! Now I know why I did not join the excitement to join them!

-Larry

Last month, veer was better than BigStock for me! And yes I have all the same images on both. Actually about 30 more images on BigStock.

We will see how it goes. It is very much going to be possible to make regular payouts at veer. That is my impression so far.

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: melastmohican on October 21, 2009, 17:55

Got 5 total and 3 this year.  I guess they did not celebrate 1 year or I missed it :-)

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: eppic on October 21, 2009, 18:32

I bet you got more royalties from the Veer sales than the yay sales though.  I think its still too early to go Veer bashing.

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: melastmohican on October 21, 2009, 22:01

Quote from: eppic on October 21, 2009, 18:32

I bet you got more royalties from the Veer sales than the yay sales though.  I think its still too early to go Veer bashing.

Wrong, I got 3x more from YAY. If only they got volume...

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: FD on October 22, 2009, 01:08

Quote from: tsmarkley on October 21, 2009, 17:21

I'm impressed that you had a sale on Yay.

I had 8 sales this year on YAY, and one on Veer. To be honest, after my initial approval of 10 on Veer, they rejected 40-60% (amongst them good sellers) in a very irrational way. Many were for keywords or "we don't need this". My conclusion was that in that case, I don't need them too and I asked to delete my port. The single sale came in the few days the approved images were online.

Since a while, I use the hamburger criterion. If I earn less on a site than the hourly wage of flipping hamburgers (8 euro/h) by finishing the upload on site (disambiguiting, categorizing), I discard it. Veer is very slow to disambiguate since they rebuild the page every time a keyword is disambiguated or added. YAY is done is a breeze.

Title: Re: Veer matched YAY today
Post by: sharpshot on October 22, 2009, 02:28

I don't disambiguate with Veer.  There is no way I would waste time doing that yet, if sales pick up I might consider it.  I am getting sales, so buyers are finding my images.