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Microstock Footage Forum => General - Stock Video => Topic started by: click_click on October 08, 2009, 13:00

Title: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: click_click on October 08, 2009, 13:00

To sell footage I'd assume one would upload to:

Istock
Shutterstock
Pond5
Fotolia
Clipdealer
Revostock
Canstockphoto (because of their Fotosearch.com affiliation)

Which other agency is worth contributing to and where else did you have sales - if you dare to share?

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: leaf on October 08, 2009, 13:21

SnapRender generally posts some nice results from his earnings.

http://snaprender.blogspot.com/2009/09/august-2009-microstock-footage-stats.html (http://snaprender.blogspot.com/2009/09/august-2009-microstock-footage-stats.html)

His best seems to be Pond5 (http://www.pond5.com/index.php?ref=leaf), Shutterstock (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=102), then iStock (http://www.istockphoto.com/?ref=102)

and yes, I shamelessly added my referral code to those links :)

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: click_click on October 08, 2009, 13:27

Quote from: leaf on October 08, 2009, 13:21

...and yes, I shamelessly added my referral code to those links :)

Thanks, you naughty boy!

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: MicrostockExp on October 08, 2009, 13:51

You have AlwaysHD also although they are pretty slow at processing  applications...
I do not submit to Canstock yet don't think they have sales yet. I avoid Fotolia because of theit low prices.

Here is my referral link to Revostock :)
http://www.revostock.com/?a_aid=39871 (http://www.revostock.com/?a_aid=39871)

I summarize few of them in my last post: http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/10/hd-stock-footage-agencies-memo.html (http://microstockexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/10/hd-stock-footage-agencies-memo.html)

Good luck!

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: click_click on October 08, 2009, 14:14

Canstock does have footage sales - better than AlwaysHD at the moment...

Fotolia is selling quite well actually.

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: melastmohican on October 08, 2009, 14:27

Started when I got 5Dmk2, so far results are not very encouraging. I got very few downloads. I need to convert everything to Photo-Jpeg Quicktime format which is 3x larger than originals. None of the sites imports meta data so submitting is also very slow.

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: epantha on October 08, 2009, 14:53

A bought some software for a couple hundred dollars a while back that animates and morphs fractals and can save them in HD. I uploaded a few of these to SS and pond5 in the last month. Don't know if they will sell or not but they are sure fun to make.  :) I'll have to buy a new computer to render them though. My Mac G4 is almost 7 years old. :-\

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: sharpshot on October 08, 2009, 16:27

I sold one with canstock with only a few uploads.  I only have a small portfolio but istock and pond5 seem to have the most sales, revostock and shutterstock are not as good for me.

StockXpert also do footage but I haven't uploaded any there.  I took mine off fotolia, the prices were too low.  Hopefully DT will have footage one day and I can upload before they start rejecting for too many of the same subject.

The pond5 referral scheme is good, thanks to everyone who used the link in my signature.  I don't have many stills referrals, so now I know what I have been missing.

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on October 08, 2009, 16:30

I think micro "video" is overrated.  Sure, some will sell, but I don't at all see it taking over photo anytime in this decade.

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: melastmohican on October 08, 2009, 16:41

Quote from: sjlocke on October 08, 2009, 16:30

I think micro "video" is overrated.  Sure, some will sell, but I don't at all see it taking over photo anytime in this decade.

Microstock video is where photo was 5 years ago. The only difference is that there are no competing "traditional" stock agencies for footage. Unlike with photo is still time to jump on a wagon :-)

Title: Re: Which are the big boys and who else is interesting?
Post by: KB on October 08, 2009, 16:42

Quote from: sjlocke on October 08, 2009, 16:30

I think micro "video" is overrated.  Sure, some will sell, but I don't at all see it taking over photo anytime in this decade.

OTOH, there's less than 3 months remaining in this decade ....

 ;D  ;D  ;D