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Agency Based Discussion => New Sites - General => Topic started by: oboy on November 22, 2011, 11:17
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Photokore has only come up a couple of time here at the forum. What makes this new agency interesting is that they are dedicated to the Asian market. I think this is something many here are waiting for, an agency that will try open the Asian market to contributors with English titles, descriptions, and keywords.
The submitting process is fast and easy via FTP. Some more info:
http://microstockagencies.blogspot.com/2011/04/photokore.html (http://microstockagencies.blogspot.com/2011/04/photokore.html)
Minimum Payout: $100
Payout: request
Editorial: no
Images: yes
Vectors: yes
Footage: no
Audio: no
Minimum Res.: 6MP
Licenses: RF
Compensation: 20% - 40%
Pricing: $2 - $40
Referral Program: yes
Upload methods: HTML, FTP
Currencies: US$, JPY, KRY, CNY
Languages: Full site in English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese;
Landing Pages in Arabic, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai, Vietnamese, Russian, Spanish, French, German, and Portuguese
Headquarters: Seoul, Korea
My referral link: http://en.photokore.com/?refnum=1366 (http://en.photokore.com/?refnum=1366)
edit 11/22/2011 9:39pm: update pricing and Landing Pages.
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Maybe it's a dumb question, but why wouldn't the asian market not just use the established top tier agencies? Aren't all agencies catering to a global market?
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I guess not rimglow, looking at SS I do have some sales in the Asia already but nothing compared to Europe and America
BUT I don´t think it will be this agency paying 20%, have read about them before and nothing great about them but would love to hear more
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Maybe the attraction is that The website can be viewed in English, Japanese, Chinese (simplified), and Korean.
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I think there is a couple of things that separates them. One is the background of the CEO Sean F. Mooney http://www.photokore.com/about_us/main (http://www.photokore.com/about_us/main) that is related to the Asian advertisement market. And the other point is the translation into the different Asian languages. The have a closed keyword system, but you don't do the footwork, they do (at least that is my understanding). You submit the image with your regular keywords. In the submitting and approval process (after you submitted the image), the will port your keyword into their system. And from there it can be automatically translated into the different Asian languages. With this they can create market specific port websites for the different Countries in the native languages.
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100.-U$ minimum payout is too high for a new site.
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luissantos84, The royalty % increases with the amount of accepted uploads and sales http://en.photokore.com/help/badge (http://en.photokore.com/help/badge)
shiyali, I agree, hopefully they will lower this.
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luissantos84, The royalty % increases with the amount of accepted uploads and sales [url]http://en.photokore.com/help/badge[/url] ([url]http://en.photokore.com/help/badge[/url])
yes I have seen that before, quite a while ago actually, I am talking that looking the website there aren´t many sales around but I will see it more close as I have already email them
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Thank you oboy, need to replace some dead wood end of the year. Used your referral link to give this one a few month's try.
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Thank you CD123!
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Hello Microstockers on MSG,
My name is Jay Chae, and I am Business Development Manager for Photokore.
It is my first time to post here, but I think many of you are curious about my company.
A great number of Asian image buyers can’t read English, so we’ve created a site where they can search in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Indonesian, as well as English. It’s our hope to help non-Asian artist claim a share of the Asian imagery market. We’re still new, and have lots to develop, but will do our best to support our artists.
I hope it helps you to get idea of Photokore.
All the best
Jay
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It's kind of interesting talks here. With my work experience Asian market is one of fast growth in the world and people's seeking cashs in this region. I don't see any fresh Asian images uploaded on any big microstock sites and there're rarely usable images where designers staying in Asia want to use. I think Photokore's appearance makes sense and there should be thousands of people diving into the new market.
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Hello Microstockers on MSG,
My name is Jay Chae, and I am Business Development Manager for Photokore.
It is my first time to this forum, but I think many of you are curious about my company.
A great number of Asian image buyers can’t read English, so we’ve created a site where they can search in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Indonesian, as well as English. It’s our hope to help non-Asian artist claim a share of the Asian imagery market. We’re still new, and have lots to develop, but will do our best to support our artists.
I hope it helps you to get idea of Photokore.
All the best
Jay
Non-exclusive royalties start at 20% and top out at 30%. That is no incentive to upload to a new site.
Adjust that (start with 50%) and you will attract contributors.
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Hello Microstockers on MSG,
My name is Jay Chae, and I am Business Development Manager for Photokore.
It is my first time to post here, but I think many of you are curious about my company.
A great number of Asian image buyers can’t read English, so we’ve created a site where they can search in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Hindi, Indonesian, as well as English. It’s our hope to help non-Asian artist claim a share of the Asian imagery market. We’re still new, and have lots to develop, but will do our best to support our artists.
I hope it helps you to get idea of Photokore.
All the best
Jay
Hi Jay
There seems to be a bug in your upload system. After uploading and I do not immediately go to unfinished uploads (Step 2) my quantities indicated in pending is much higher than it should be, I also then get other people's uploads in my "Step 2" preview area. If I log out and in again it is correct again.
I have emailed for an FTP account, but is also awaiting feedback.
Hope to get feedback soon.
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Responds from them can take a day. I assume that it is the time difference. If I contact the today, I usually receive a respond next day in the morning.
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Responds from them can take a day. I assume that it is the time difference. If I contact the today, I usually receive a respond next day in the morning.
Thank you. I am patient. Have also found that if you use the select all images check box you can not (or have difficulty) in attaching a release. If you select the images by hand, then it attach the release.
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Responds from them can take a day. I assume that it is the time difference. If I contact the today, I usually receive a respond next day in the morning.
Thank you. I am patient. Have also found that if you use the select all images check box you can not (or have difficulty) in attaching a release. If you select the images by hand, then it attach the release.
Tell them what browser and operating system you use.
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This got to be one of the fastest results I ever had to place a referral link. I started three days ago to place this referral link. Now I have 10 referral so far, and one person already has a sale. Most of the referrals probably don't even have that many images online in that short of time.
Anyway, I like to say THANK YOU for those of you that have used my referral link!
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This got to be one of the fastest results I ever had to place a referral link. I started three days ago to place this referral link. Now I have 10 referral so far, and one person already has a sale.
I'm there since May but I don't spread my referral links around in this forum. I even helped them out on some stuff. Oh boy! :'(
(they won't make it)
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This got to be one of the fastest results I ever had to place a referral link. I started three days ago to place this referral link. Now I have 10 referral so far, and one person already has a sale. Most of the referrals probably don't even have that many images online in that short of time.
Anyway, I like to say THANK YOU for those of you that have used my referral link!
Yes, I got a sale within the first 24 hours of starting to upload (got 35c). Unfortunately does not say much, also got one within first 2 days at Photaki and after 6 months still only has the one sale.... :P
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Photokore was only founded in 2010. I think it is to early to say that they will or will not make it. I like the concept that their focus is on the Asian market. AttilaTheNun, why do you think they won't make it?
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Photokore was only founded in 2010. I think it is to early to say that they will or will not make it. I like the concept that their focus is on the Asian market. AttilaTheNun, why do you think they won't make it?
I get the distinct feeling that very non nun-like, "we" are very stingy in giving out any reference to any site which may cause extra competition. ;)
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I just got 339 of my photos accepted. No rejections, but none are showing up yet in keyword searches.
I wonder how long it takes to translate all of my keywords?
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I just got 339 of my photos accepted. No rejections, but none are showing up yet in keyword searches.
I wonder how long it takes to translate all of my keywords?
Took about 24 hours for my first ones to show. If you look at the top of the screen where you submit your images, you will note that all the approved ones first go to the "Being Prepared" area. I assume this is where all text get translated into the foreign languages. Only thereafter do they get displayed in the available for sale area.
It does not seem if they look at all the images (also no rejections here). I had a few badly corrupted images I missed with the submission process accepted as well (unfortunately not very flattering for either the contributor or the standard of the website) :o
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I have 650 pictures since some months and sold one for 22c ;D
Next payout in march 2097.
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I have 650 pictures since some months and sold one for 22c ;D
Next payout in march 2097.
Fantastic! That is 1 more than I have ever sold at Zoonar!!! ;D
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Photokore was only founded in 2010. I think it is to early to say that they will or will not make it. I like the concept that their focus is on the Asian market. AttilaTheNun, why do you think they won't make it?
I had a virtual chat with them and with Lee Torrens months ago. This is rather private but I will send you a PM. Their only USP for the moment is the languages since the translations on the big micros are mostly crap. China has been taken by FT's local partners and as far as I can judge, the language on those local sites is very OK and the design is adapted to the Chinese taste (much more busy, much more condensed).
Apart from that, Korea and Japan are the only countries with deep pockets plus their English sucks. So a well translated site could be a benefit but if that's their only USP, they are very vulnerable.
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I get the distinct feeling that very non nun-like, "we" are very stingy in giving out any reference to any site which may cause extra competition. ;)
Is that so? :P (you're right).
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I joined several days ago using the referral link. It took only about 24 hours to get accepted as a contributor. I had no technical problems with my first upload. It's still pending. I'm willing to take a chance on a new site and hope they can make it work.
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After uploading, I did a keyword search for my photos, and discovered that over 60 did not show up. I checked, and the keywords show up in the photo, and are also included in the title. I emailed them about it. I think they have a major search engine problem and I hope they get it sorted out soon. Otherwise, it's useless to contribute there.
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After uploading, I did a keyword search for my photos, and discovered that over 60 did not show up. I checked, and the keywords show up in the photo, and are also included in the title. I emailed them about it. I think they have a major search engine problem and I hope they get it sorted out soon. Otherwise, it's useless to contribute there.
Just because the image is live on the site does not mean it's indexed so that it shows up in the search engine. Back in the day, shutterstock would approve your images and they would be live on the site immediately, but you would never show up in search results for at least 24 hours.
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They've been live for 3 days. I performed my search today.
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They've been live for 3 days. I performed my search today.
Post the file page link. I don't have any issues with stuff not showing up in the search results.
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More are starting to show up now, but not all yet.
Maybe I complained too early, or maybe my email is being addressed.
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More are starting to show up now, but not all yet.
Maybe I complained too early, or maybe my email is being addressed.
I would say its just taking longer to process. This agency is going to be fully searchable in 16 languages. In theory, that might require 16 different indexing runs.
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Anything new from photokore or from its contributors ? anyone has any sale there recently ?
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Anything new from photokore or from its contributors ? anyone has any sale there recently ?
1 for 41 cents in February
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just 1 !!! disappointing.
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One sale of $0.35 the day I joined 3 months ago. That is it! :(
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I got .47 YTD thus feel like I won the Mega Lotto...
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Two sales so far, a total of U$3.16. The 100.-U$ payout minimum is set too high. They should lower it to 20.-.
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Two sales so far, a total of U$3.16. The 100.-U$ payout minimum is set too high. They should lower it to 20.-.
That will be a great improvement, I can then get a payout 2032 and not 2107!!!
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Two sales so far, a total of U$3.16. The 100.-U$ payout minimum is set too high. They should lower it to 20.-.
That will be a great improvement, I can then get a payout 2032 and not 2107!!!
Haha my thoughts exactly.
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They are still sending out emails to possible contributors. I got mine today. But I'll pass. Especially after the woeful results listed by others. My policy is not to upload to any site out of (my) top three. IS, SS, DT
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Two sales so far, a total of U$3.16. The 100.-U$ payout minimum is set too high. They should lower it to 20.-.
Update: one more sale in July of $0.14 which brings my total to $3.30.
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I joined but I think they will need to pay me to upload. There's already far too many sites. There has to be an incentive to upload now and if they have very few sales, what's the point?
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I wrote them some day ago:
"Hi there!
100$ is really too much high, with the time that you need to review the images and the number of images that you sell in comparison with your bigger competitors (Shutterstock, Fotolia, iStock, Dreamstime…) I think that you should put the payoff at 20 $ or less.
Be realist and wait to have a "big" name before to have certain pretensions :)
Off course it is only my opinion.
My best wishes by the way"
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We will see what they answer (If the will)
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My dear stock friends, who selling on Photocore:
HOW CAN YOU BE SO STUPID AND NAIVE ?
100 $
ha ha
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FYI
They are part of YayMicros API program, You may want to opt out at Yay if you are uploading yourself.
I wrote them some day ago:
"Hi there!
100$ is really too much high, with the time that you need to review the images and the number of images that you sell in comparison with your bigger competitors (Shutterstock, Fotolia, iStock, Dreamstime…) I think that you should put the payoff at 20 $ or less.
Be realist and wait to have a "big" name before to have certain pretensions :)
Off course it is only my opinion.
My best wishes by the way"
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We will see what they answer (If the will)
I wrote them something similar a few months ago - they did reply asking me to reconsider, I haven't.
For sites like this it's probably better to do it through something like Yay - You'll get less money but at least you'll get it before your grandchildren do.
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it looks like a nice site...
but if there is not enough buyers..no matter how many images i upload..it doesn't make any difference..
the time i upload 1 image in shutterstock will worth it i upload 1000 images over there..
especially all seems like subs sales that's less than $1..