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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: vonkara on October 05, 2009, 16:45
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The last best agencies Poll have been in last February. I thought it could be interesting to see what is the latest opinions, as a couple of things moved since 8 months. Your choice may be done on any features you like from an agency. This is about overall satisfaction.
- You got 3 votes and can change your vote as you wish.
- If anyone want me to add another agency to vote for post in the thread or PM me.
Here is the last best agencies Poll 2 link and result just under.
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/your-best-agencies-2-poll/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/your-best-agencies-2-poll/)
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Shutterstock 68 (28.2%)
Istock 49 (20.3%)
Dreamstime 55 (22.8%)
Fotolia 23 (9.5%)
StockXpert 29 (12%)
Bigstock 8 (3.3%)
123RF 9 (3.7%)
Thanks for voting! :)
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I voted for my best 3 earners lately - IS, DT and FT. I could vote for Alamy, but as it is a different territory for me, it isn't a valid comparison.
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It look more like a big 4 than before. Fotolia gained lately. For Alamy, If you like earnings, it can be a very good choice, but since you need like 300 (?) to cash out, it's not one of my favorite yet. But the month I will cash out from there will be like christmas when I was 10 years old :)
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Alamy is nice, but what I sell there is not what I sell in micros - that's what I meant. So I won't compare apples and oranges. I don't submit to SS, so the big 4 are big 3 for me. :D
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Seeing in top one agency that sells suscriptions and pays 30-40 cents for any size always shock me. But we,, so it's democracy...
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Seeing in top one agency that sells suscriptions and pays 30-40 cents for any size always shock me. But we,, so it's democracy...
The Shutterstock On demand do a pretty good job actually.
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Alamy is nice, but what I sell there is not what I sell in micros - that's what I meant. So I won't compare apples and oranges. I don't submit to SS, so the big 4 are big 3 for me. :D
I agree. Adding Alamy on the micro list is absurd, but the survey is what it is. ;D
Where we differ is SS is my second best sales site, right after Alamy. Then we agree again, because nothing on Alamy is on SS. 8)
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Well I sell quite the same on Alamy than on microstock. I also know that many big ans small microstockers does the same. There's also almost no difference between an extended licence on microstock and the prices on Alamy.
Maybe I'm wrong but the uses from the licence on Alamy look more like an extended licence on microstock. It's not like... pay 120$ for a single web use. Also buyers there know what they are doing.
Even If you don't sell the same kind of images on Alamy, the survey ask, does you like your selling images experience there, more than the other agencies, even If different.
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Hi Vonkara,
Thanks for putting this together for us. Good feedback and info.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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My top 3
SS
DT
StockXpert and FT if I could have added.
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Vonkara, I hope you mean selling the microstock images at Alamy as RF, not RM?
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Vonkara, I hope you mean selling the microstock images at Alamy as RF, not RM?
Yes RF. I'll have to check the RF infos on Alamy, it look like there's no extended licence choices
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Ok most people must had voted now. Here's the results at 114 votes
% of people having - as their 3 best agencies
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SS - 87%
IS - 70%
DT - 54%
FT - 35%
StockXpert - 14%
BigStock - 0.8%
123RF - 0.4%
ALY - 0.4%
Now it look more like a Big 5 ;D 6 - 4 - 3 ?? lol
Look like most people are doing very good at SS and IS. The result for DT may be influenced by people approval ratio. ?
Seem like even if FT is a big agency, there's not a lot of people who found the key there. Maybe the canister is a reason for that, or subscriptions are more used there. Still SS is almost only subs. Seem like it's possible to get something from SS subs and not necessarily elsewhere, like some agencies believe.
StockXpert is still there. Hehe!