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Agency Based Discussion => New Sites - General => Topic started by: dbvirago on October 01, 2006, 20:04

Title: photos.com
Post by: dbvirago on October 01, 2006, 20:04

Anybody know this one? I stumbled across it searching for something else. I couldn't find any info there about being a photographyer. Also thought their search engine wasn't very good. Are they an affiliate of another agency?

Title: Re: photos.com
Post by: suesmith on October 01, 2006, 23:27

I found an ad in a magazine for photos.com and had the same trouble you did trying to find information about being a photographer.  That's as far as I went with it.  I do wonder where they are getting their photos, though...

Title: Re: photos.com
Post by: nruboc on October 01, 2006, 23:47

They don't take photographers, all the images there are owned by Jupiter Images.

Title: Re: photos.com
Post by: berryspun on October 01, 2006, 23:49

Would this help?  I don't know what it means:

http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/releases/03.10.22-animations.html
(exerpt)
About the ArtToday.com Network
The ArtToday.com Network offers paid online subscriptions for photographs, clipart, Web graphics, animations and fonts. Network sites include Photos.com (www.photos.com), ClipArt.com (www.clipart.com), Graphics.com (www.graphics.com), FlashComponents.com (www.flashcomponents.com), RebelArtist.com (www.rebelartist.co) and Animations.com (www.animations.com), among others. ClipArt.com is the largest subscription-based graphics resource on the Web with more than 2.6 million clipart images, animations, photos, fonts and sounds. The entire ArtToday.com Network of Web sites generates in excess of 60 million page views per month and has approximately 3.0 million unique visitors per month.

Title: Re: photos.com
Post by: Greg Boiarsky on October 01, 2006, 23:55

From PDN:

"Most discussions of micropayment stock don't mention Photos.com, which is professionally shot and doesn't host an online community for its contributors the way other micropayment sites do. It does, however, have a comparable price to popular micropayment site ShutterStock, which charges $139 a month for a subscription."

Title: Re: photos.com
Post by: leaf on October 02, 2006, 00:52

anyone know how to apply there, or do you have to go through jupiter?

Title: Re: photos.com
Post by: pelmof on October 02, 2006, 05:02

Quote from: leaf on October 02, 2006, 00:52

anyone know how to apply there, or do you have to go through jupiter?

It is Jupiter owned. You will find many of the same images in all of the sites owned by Jupiter (see berryspuns comment above). You can get subscriptions to one of their sites or buy a package to several of them. They have their own stable of photogs, and you can apply to them via email at the link at the bottom of this page:

http://www.jupiterimages.com/contactUs.aspx

Pat