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Title: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: mikulski on March 17, 2016, 10:08
I found the site www.microstock.top (http://www.microstock.top)
But, it's only Shutterstock authors table. Who knows a similar site about iStock, Bigstock Fotolia and others?
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: cathyslife on March 17, 2016, 13:28
That's a cool table, thanks for posting the link. I don't know of similar sites, though.

I see Leaf at 337 out of 12213 photographers, with 23,245 images...very impressive!
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: r2d2 on March 18, 2016, 02:22
Now we can make a mailinglist with this names.
Then we have a perfect ss newsletter to inform the members about news from ss bottom race. ;D
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: cobalt on March 18, 2016, 05:22
There used to be one for istock with over 30 000 members, but I think it was closed.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on March 18, 2016, 06:05
The interesting thing here is that the 12 million of SS's 70 million images are owned by just the top 100 photographers or studios. I cant be bothered to go through more of the list, but I would bet the top 500 own the majority of the library and almost all of the saleable images, much of the rest being garbage from ye olden days from people who no longer upload.

Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: r2d2 on March 18, 2016, 09:13
The interesting thing here is that the 12 million of SS's 70 million images are owned by just the top 100 photographers or studios. I cant be bothered to go through more of the list, but I would bet the top 500 own the majority of the library and almost all of the saleable images, much of the rest being garbage from ye olden days from people who no longer upload.

The Microstockworld is smaller than many people think.
A few contributors can make a big change if they united. Maybe 500 could turn SS in a trashcan if they leaving SS.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: sgoodwin4813 on March 18, 2016, 10:14
Interesting list.  It looks like having around 1350 gets you in the top 10,000.  I wonder how many are still active during the past year?   It looks like not many towards the bottom of the list.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Pauws99 on March 18, 2016, 12:57
According to Pareto 80% of the images should be produced by 20% of the contributors whether these are the same 20% who get 80% of the income we can only speculate........
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Pauws99 on March 18, 2016, 12:59
The interesting thing here is that the 12 million of SS's 70 million images are owned by just the top 100 photographers or studios. I cant be bothered to go through more of the list, but I would bet the top 500 own the majority of the library and almost all of the saleable images, much of the rest being garbage from ye olden days from people who no longer upload.
Or a lot of those people not in the top 100 are on the way up and a lot of the "top" photographers work is outdated or repetitive trash.....anyone fancy a joint?
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: cobalt on March 18, 2016, 15:06
It was similar on istock, I think the top 500 contributors created the majority of the sellable content.

People forget that crowd sourcing just means an open platform that allows anyone to enter and the talent to rise to the top without "special connections".

It does not mean some kind of communist work system where everyone produced the same number of images and has the same number of sales, in equal proportion to uploads.

That is why agencies are so extremly vulnerable when people remove their content.

Only active uploaders and relevant portfolios will take part in a boycott.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Newsfocus1 on March 18, 2016, 15:48
That's a cool table, thanks for posting the link. I don't know of similar sites, though.

I see Leaf at 337 out of 12213 photographers, with 23,245 images...very impressive!

I'm there at 7430 position. Better upload a few more then to catch Tyler up :)
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Mantis on March 18, 2016, 17:42
I'm there but their count is WAY off. They have me at 3200 assets and I have over 4600
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: cidepix on March 18, 2016, 20:28
There used to be one for istock with over 30 000 members, but I think it was closed.

This is nothing like that.. istock list had sales data, thus was more interesting.. this is just about the number of images people have..

Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: YadaYadaYada on March 19, 2016, 13:21
I'm there but their count is WAY off. They have me at 3200 assets and I have over 4600

Mine is right count kind of, shows new and I haven't sent anything new in weeks. Just over 12,000 people with 1000 or more. Not worth checking the 60,000 other with less.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: mikulski on March 21, 2016, 08:59
According to Pareto 80% of the images should be produced by 20% of the contributors whether these are the same 20% who get 80% of the income we can only speculate........
Pauws99, you right!
It's easy to load this table in MS EXcell and calculate the amount of images those 12200 contributors - 64,086,726.
It is a 80% of 79,748,055 images of SS.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: YadaYadaYada on March 21, 2016, 10:06
According to Pareto 80% of the images should be produced by 20% of the contributors whether these are the same 20% who get 80% of the income we can only speculate........
Pauws99, you right!
It's easy to load this table in MS EXcell and calculate the amount of images those 12200 contributors - 64,086,726.
It is a 80% of 79,748,055 images of SS.

What about the first 100 how much are they?
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: mikulski on March 29, 2016, 02:22
What about the first 100 how much are they?
First 100 contributors has 12.5 millions images = it's a 15.6 percent of all shutterstock's 80,000,000 images.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Pauws99 on March 29, 2016, 02:24
According to Pareto 80% of the images should be produced by 20% of the contributors whether these are the same 20% who get 80% of the income we can only speculate........
Pauws99, you right!
It's easy to load this table in MS EXcell and calculate the amount of images those 12200 contributors - 64,086,726.
It is a 80% of 79,748,055 images of SS.
Its Pareto who was the clever guy :-)
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: anathaya on March 29, 2016, 03:47
Sort that list by "% of sales", and see who is at 5th place!
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Sebastian Radu on March 29, 2016, 05:33
W hat this "% of sales" means ?
 ???
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: anathaya on March 29, 2016, 06:25
W hat this "% of sales" means ?
 ???


I think it represents the percentage of images that has been sold at least once.

http://www.microstock.top/index.phtml?sort=percent (http://www.microstock.top/index.phtml?sort=percent)
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Dumc on March 29, 2016, 06:36
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3906626p2.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3906626p2.html)

This guy has a whole world map in his port....
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Justanotherphotographer on March 29, 2016, 06:38
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3886493p3.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3886493p3.html) 25000+ images, sold 0.5% (not 50% 0.5%!)
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2013506p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-2013506p1.html) 173800+ images sold 2.6%

and lots more, the ridiculously low sell through rates are mostly what have been called the "icon spammers" already discussed here.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: YadaYadaYada on March 29, 2016, 21:02
W hat this "% of sales" means ?
 ???


I think it represents the percentage of images that has been sold at least once.

[url]http://www.microstock.top/index.phtml?sort=percent[/url] ([url]http://www.microstock.top/index.phtml?sort=percent[/url])


look at the last page by date joined. People with 3000 images and no sales? Look at page 1 people with over 99% sold? I think there's a problem in the data that the report can get at. No complaint but something doesn't look right.
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: Deyan Georgiev Photography on March 30, 2016, 01:11
There is even negative % of images sold :)

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-631603p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-631603p1.html)
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-938473p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-938473p1.html)

and even negative portfolio size...

http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3347024p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-3347024p1.html)
Title: Re: Who knows the site like www.microstock.top ?
Post by: mikulski on February 08, 2017, 04:50
And news - read this:
http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/90185-interesting-ss-review-new (http://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/90185-interesting-ss-review-new)
or
http://www.microstock.top/index.phtml (http://www.microstock.top/index.phtml)