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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Justanotherphotographer on October 26, 2016, 04:17

Title: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on October 26, 2016, 04:17

Is this a partner site or something? Looks like a a bit of an IStock clone and ranks very high on google for stock photo searches

ETA, just spotted some of my work on there so I really want to know now! Can't find a link to the contributors portfolio from the image so I am not sure if it is there legitimately or not?

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: Deyan Georgiev Photography on October 26, 2016, 05:28

It's Jon who bought the domain for $250 000 and your images are there from Depositphotos i guess.

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on October 26, 2016, 05:33

Thanks. The dp connection explains why it is only very old work of mine on there! Which jon do you mean?

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: Dodie on October 26, 2016, 06:27

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on October 26, 2016, 05:33

Thanks. The dp connection explains why it is only very old work of mine on there! Which jon do you mean?

https://blog.stockphoto.com/how-to-ask-your-wife-for-permission-to-spend-250-000-on-a-domain-name-c27a3c2852e1#.wvszlf1o7 (https://blog.stockphoto.com/how-to-ask-your-wife-for-permission-to-spend-250-000-on-a-domain-name-c27a3c2852e1#.wvszlf1o7)

He only bought the domain name not the photos.

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on October 26, 2016, 06:59

Thanks!

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on October 26, 2016, 07:01

Also great to see a stock site owner using quite so much of other people's IP on a blog post. But there you go

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: lima on October 26, 2016, 07:19

they have my vectors and photos too  >:( they are parterns from somebody ????

Title: Re: Who are www.stockphoto.com?
Post by: THP Creative on October 26, 2016, 13:18

I worked with Jon when he first launched the site and for a while after.

But soon sales stopped completely and (other than a few HUGE contributors) he has stopped having direct uploads and is basically just a portal for images from Depositphotos now. so if you have images on DP, they will also be on stockphoto.

Hope that helps.