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pixel8:
Is anyone here on stockphoto.com? If so what are your thoughts about them and their payout structure?

I was looking on Google under the Search for "Stock Photos" and saw that after Shutterstock and iStock, StockPhoto.com was the third site listed that was not a free stock photo site.

Also what's the deal with stockphotosecrets.com as they were on the first page as well.

Sundry Photography:
When I click a thumbnail, the photo displayed has a depositphotos watermark, but the artist is not shown anywhere (which I find it to be very sketchy).
I gave up on DP as almost all the sales were subscription and the average commission was 0.36$....but others are reporting ok sales from them....

Firn:
Same. I see the Depositphotos watermark and the Stockphoto watermark on the previews AND I see my own images there, even though I never submitted to them.

I serached their FAQ and google, but can't find any mentioning of any connection between Stockphoto and Depositphotos.

 ???

ShadySue:
Hmmmm ...

"Compare yourself against the best
Monthly Leaderboards show the Photographers with most downloaded images. Drill-down on their portfolio — learn from the best and level-up!"
The most successful photographers must love that!

"Win fabulous prizes and share in earnings
The Photographer with the most downloads each calendar month takes home an amazing array of camera gear, courses and gift vouchers — as well as a share of the earnings."
I happened to see this paragraph before I saw the preceding, and thought it was likely that this would often be the same person, but probably not if everyone else copies their work.
Also, do they have to go to Perth, Australia to collect the 'amazing array of camera gear' in order to 'take it home'? I'm always a bit concerned when I see sites using inaccurate language, as I assume they will post it out.
It's a strange site altogether: I've already found two different 'About' pages  ::) One headed "How to ask your wife for permission to spend $250,000 on a domain name" and one "Every idea needs a Medium".

"Stockphoto.com was finally launched on the 9th of September 2013. We were cashflow-positive from Month 1. Not huge numbers, of course, but a promising start."
Seven years, and this is the first I've heard of it? That probably says more about me than about them, but there hasn't been much discussion of it here, though searching stockphoto.com brings up istockphoto, bigstockphoto, canstockphoto ... but it doesn't have its own agency forum section, so there can't have been much interest on here.

pixel8:
Yeah it just seams strange that they can have such a high ranking in the Google search results on the first page beating out Adobestock and others and they are doing it organically without paid placement.

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