Wonder if that's a direct sales channel or he got funding to do an agency.

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What's the point of creating a new whatever for the 'YA Collection' when the entire thing is available on every site for $.25 - $500?  . Is he going to pull out of every site? 

Good luck to him!!  he deserves it,  the guy is an inovator!  always one step ahead.

See!  thats the differance, he is out there, ajour, with todays happenings, while the rest of you just sit here scratching your bald heads

Quote from: sjlocke on June 15, 2011, 21:38

What's the point of creating a new whatever for the 'YA Collection' when the entire thing is available on every site for $.25 - $500?  . Is he going to pull out of every site? 

That would make the most sense. If you can get 100% of .25 - $500 and buyers can't get your photos anywhere else...

The trick is to not go broke attracting buyers.

There's probably thousands of buyers already coming str8 to his port looking for images. So all he has to do is let them now that they could get in at a new place now (he can make a blog post at IS), he doesn't even have to say for less money. It would be great for him and for us. He'd make more while having to submit to a single site, no one will be able to screw him over with lowering royalties, while we get more action at stock agencies. I bet he'll get less sales, but get to keep 100% of it (minus expenses), so if he sells just over 50% he did he'll earn more and we get to split tens of thousands of DLs at big 4 agencies every month . And who's to say he's going to sell them at micro prices at least all of them. He might just make a sort of the main SS like collection with 50k files and sell the very best, say 5% of his images at midstock prices.

I think he'll sell just his own images&videos. Why spoiling it with substandard work, having inspections, when ppl are going to be searching for HIS WORK. Ppl will want, simple, clear, highly commercial shots, not Elena's highly conceptual arty images;)

Good luck to him!!  he deserves it,  the guy is an inovator!  always one step ahead.

 I think your praise is a bit OTT, from what I've read all he's doing is setting up a site to sell direct to buyers - from what he's written in that link I'd hardly describe him as being an 'innovator' and 'one step ahead' , I and hundreds of others of stock photographers have been doing this for years, if anything I'm wondering why he's dragged his feet over this for so long, although I'm eager and intrigued to see what exactly the site does that has taken him 2.5 years to create, I'm no web designer but what can you do to a stock photo site that is so different to the others?

What I think this does show is that Yuri, like so many of us, has reached the level where the greed and incompetence of the major microstock sites has made him decide to try the direct selling route, I'm guessing the 2.5 years referred to is the time period he's been thinking about doing it but up until now it wasn't financially necessary. I wish him lots of luck, the 100% commission from a sale is very satisfactory!

Quote from: lagereek on June 16, 2011, 00:29

Good luck to him!!  he deserves it,  the guy is an inovator!  always one step ahead.

 I think your praise is a bit OTT, from what I've read all he's doing is setting up a site to sell direct to buyers - from what he's written in that link I'd hardly describe him as being an 'innovator' and 'one step ahead' , I and hundreds of others of stock photographers have been doing this for years, if anything I'm wondering why he's dragged his feet over this for so long, although I'm eager and intrigued to see what exactly the site does that has taken him 2.5 years to create, I'm no web designer but what can you do to a stock photo site that is so different to the others?

What I think this does show is that Yuri, like so many of us, has reached the level where the greed and incompetence of the major microstock sites has made him decide to try the direct selling route, I'm guessing the 2.5 years referred to is the time period he's been thinking about doing it but up until now it wasn't financially necessary. I wish him lots of luck, the 100% commission from a sale is very satisfactory!

Yes!  thats just it! I mean it doesnt take too much brain to figure out that eventually, these sites will kill off themselves, each other or be incorporated into some even more brainless umbrella and he is acting upon that,  doing something.

Few years back I did the same thing within the Getty-RM (Stones), I stopped and handled myself, all my heavy industrial material, simply because with all the stuff, agencies they bought and other third-parties it would just become a joke, today Im bloody glad I did,  just look at the mess. Had it been left and with the new contract it would probably have ended up as Micro, at TS,  biggest corporate dustbin in existance.

^^^It does look that way and I'm sure he knows that if he starts a rival site, the current sites wont like it but unlike most of us, removing his portfolio could really hurt them.  It's going to be interesting to see how this pans out.  He might have some ideas that none of us have thought of.

maybe lobo will apply in the near future for a job as forum moderator  : )

Good for Yuri.  Reading this it does look like he is going to run a traditional micro and use his brand to drive sales.  However, I am betting that he will keep his stuff on other micros that's already there and then create an "Exclusive" Yuri collection for his site. 

Indeed, he could leave old stuff there and upload his new exclusively from his new site. Though this doesn't make as much sense as pulling it down from other sites. Selling on his own site, while his content is still available elsewhere makes even less sense. Why would he even bother with his own site to get some lousy 5-10% from his site, while he'd have to spend a fortune for promoting his brand new site? And how would he promote it, if buyers could just as easily buy the content on the site where they are already registered, have unused credits, running subs etc. And how would he promote it, how would he try to lure people in if the photos are not going to be exclusive and if he won't sell content from other contributors? It doesn't make ANY sense from the business point of view, not to go through all that, making the site in house, hiring many people...And if he doesn't pull it from other sites, there's no way for him to raise prices, why would anyone want to spend more than on IS, where he has no A/V or even on a sub site, where content is almost free. I bet he'll pull all his content from other sites, have a micro collection, sell the best micro at midstock prices and sell his macro at macro prices.

maybe lobo will apply in the near future for a job as forum moderator  : )

And Peebert could come back from retirement to do public relations.

Why would he even bother with his own site to get some lousy 5-10% from his site, while he'd have to spend a fortune for promoting his brand new site?

Because 5-10% could add up to $100,000 a year or more. He might be able to get that on top of his existing income just by techniques such as social networking. It's a low risk strategy with a high probability of significantly boosting his bottom line.
If he pulls out of everywhere else, he immediately slashes his earnings and simultaneously has to find a massive advertising budget to try to draw people into his site. To me, that doesn't even look like a high risk strategy, it's just suicidal.