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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Newbie Discussion => Topic started by: daniel_mouritsen on March 18, 2009, 18:27

Title: Newbie question
Post by: daniel_mouritsen on March 18, 2009, 18:27

Right, I'm a bit confused about one thing. When you submit to different agencies, do you submit the same or different images to the agencies (I'm asking people with nonexclusive contributer accounts)

I always thought you weren't allowed to submit the same photographs to different agencies, but it have recently came to my attention that you are allowed to do so.  Can you lot tell me if this is true for all agencies? I mean, are there any agencies where you aren't allowed to post material thats been posted on other stock sites?

And what is your thoughts on the idea of doing so? is it a good idea or a bad idea in your experience? :)

Best regards,
Daniel

Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: madelaide on March 18, 2009, 18:51

Daniel,

As long as you are not exclusive to a site or the photo is not exclusive to a site, it can be uploaded to any site that doesn't require exclusivity (which is probably the case in every microstock site).

And of course it is a good idea to upload to all of them.  They often have different buyers.  An image rejected in one may be accepted in others (one of my best-sellers was rejected twice in IS).  Some type of image may sell better in one site than in another.  In some sites, if your image doesn't sell well soon after uploaded, it may get lost in the end of search results, even if it is a good photo; then if you are lucky it may sell well somewhere else.

Regards,
Adelaide

Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on March 18, 2009, 19:58

As mentioned, if you are non-exclusive, or are not submitting exclusively, you can submit your content anywhere you like.

Title: Re: Newbie question
Post by: daniel_mouritsen on March 18, 2009, 22:36

thanks for the replies, both of you :) and just to clarify sjlocke, since you where the one actually putting me straight about IS not having a problem with a picture being uploaded elsewhere as long as its done by a nonexclusive, the reason for this post was to try and determine if any of the other agencies might have a problem with getting content uploaded which is uploaded elsewhere. It wasn't that I didn't understand what you where saying, I'm simply just trying to do a bit of research so I don't step on anybodies toes :)

Best regards,
Daniel