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Agency Based Discussion => New Sites - General => Topic started by: leaf on July 10, 2009, 17:41
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Enter the ring another challenger to the microstock world.
Glow Images Marketplace.
http://glowimages.com/index.cfm?/marketplace_en (http://glowimages.com/index.cfm?/marketplace_en)
Glow Images is an established traditional stock agency that has been quietly gobbling up smaller agencies. They now have a microstock offering. I suppose they are streaming the images from somewhere but it doesn´t say where. I have a hunch or two, but it doesn´t really matter - as long as I am getting paid for my sales. They also have direct upload and sign up.
Has anyone uploaded directly to the site?
edit: looks like you can't upload directly, they just get images from their partner site.
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They have subs. Bleargh!
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They are a fotolia affiliate and they are useless imo! :)
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I think they are just reselling Getty Macro RF and Fotolia micro, doesnt seem to be a mention of their own images or info for artists?
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I think they are just reselling Getty Macro RF and Fotolia micro, doesnt seem to be a mention of their own images or info for artists?
Found a few of my photos there with my 123RF ID on them by searching the 123RF description. I'm about 100% sure that's where they come from. ;D
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I think they are just reselling Getty Macro RF and Fotolia micro, doesnt seem to be a mention of their own images or info for artists?
Found a few of my photos there with my 123RF ID on them by searching the 123RF description. I'm about 100% sure that's where they come from. ;D
yes, I have different usernames on ft and 123rf and it is my 123rf one that is being used. didnt realise 123 had 'partner' type sites
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It looks like all my 123rf pictures are there. 123rf is not working so great for me recently.
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I think they are just reselling Getty Macro RF and Fotolia micro, doesnt seem to be a mention of their own images or info for artists?
Found a few of my photos there with my 123RF ID on them by searching the 123RF description. I'm about 100% sure that's where they come from. ;D
yes, I have different usernames on ft and 123rf and it is my 123rf one that is being used. didnt realise 123 had 'partner' type sites
By the way, I have no complaints to sites selling my photos via partners. Bring it on, and make some more sales. ;D
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By the way, I have no complaints to sites selling my photos via partners. Bring it on, and make some more sales. ;D
Well, it depends.
Usually these partnerships have a serious drawback: Your site (123 in this example) will pay you a certain percentage (50%) of "their revenue".
And they will receive a certain percentage (how much? let's assume also 50%) from their partner site.
So you end up with 25% of the sale price.
Sounds like an easy way to optimize the agency's share: Set up a partner site and compete with yourself... Every sale via the partner pays two agents and the photographer gets what's left.... ::)
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123rf images are there for me...but I have never had a third party sale with them.
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Also my 123RF Images are there :-\
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Sounds like an easy way to optimize the agency's share: Set up a partner site and compete with yourself... Every sale via the partner pays two agents and the photographer gets what's left.... ::)
Interesting thoughts. I agree that partnership should be done to increase market. A foreign site, for instance. Before Fotolia PT and BR existed, it would make sense to have a site with all the writing in Portuguese to get buyers native to this language. This is a positive partnership.
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Has anyone uploaded directly to the site?
edit: looks like you can't upload directly, they just get images from their partner site.
Now, after few years, you can upload directly but... they never reply emails... ;)
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Old thread alert ;) but lets link this one with the more current one :)
http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/glow-images-partners-with-deposit-photos-and-123rf-wild-pricing/ (http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/glow-images-partners-with-deposit-photos-and-123rf-wild-pricing/)