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Had a sale a week ago. I get one every month or two.I think what happened there is massive dilution. Early on, they got a lot of buzz for being a site that was easy to work with and paid fair commissions - and was making a few sales. GL sort of went viral among stock photographers and they probably received a huge volume of images. Then their sales sharply declined (supposedly due in part to changes at Google) and never recovered. The result is that today they may be making enough to stay in business, but not to be worthwhile for individual photographers - so no one is submitting there any longer.
Quote from: stockastic on March 09, 2015, 13:18Had a sale a week ago. I get one every month or two.I think what happened there is massive dilution. Early on, they got a lot of buzz for being a site that was easy to work with and paid fair commissions - and was making a few sales. GL sort of went viral among stock photographers and they probably received a huge volume of images. Then their sales sharply declined (supposedly due in part to changes at Google) and never recovered. The result is that today they may be making enough to stay in business, but not to be worthwhile for individual photographers - so no one is submitting there any longer.Their maximum of 20 images a day to submit is very boring, I have stopped to submit there because of this.If they would put a maximum for the month (600, corresponding to their maximum a day X 30) I surely start to upload again.
I can access to their pages without problem, but not to their customersI wrote them two weeks ago to ask if they are still working (I have no sales for months there)I am still waiting for their answer.For me this site is dead
While I agree they seem to be making a go of it in some sense, and they pay fair royalties - there is no reason to upload any more photos to them at their current level of sales. I don't know where it goes from here.