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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Newbie Discussion => Topic started by: weblaser on July 19, 2009, 02:26

Title: Stock photography and stock footage portals
Post by: weblaser on July 19, 2009, 02:26

Hey folk, please, help me to find good stock photography portal. Stock video portal will be useful as well.

I found two ones:

http://www.stockindexonline.com (http://www.stockindexonline.com) - 4 million images from 240 SPECIALIST stock libraries at one site

http://www.stockfootageonline.com (http://www.stockfootageonline.com) - over 500,000 clips from nearly 100 SPECIALIST stock footage libraries at one site

Pm me if you know any other info

Also, feel free to post any stock photo and stock video industry news here. Thanks in advance

Title: Re: Stock photography and stock footage portals
Post by: sharpshot on July 19, 2009, 02:34

For microstock, start with the top 8 in the list to the right.

Shuterstock is my highest earner, here's my referral link

http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=68500 (http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=68500)

For footage, start with Pond5, Revostock, shutterstock and istock

My Pond5 referral is

http://www.pond5.com/index.php?ref=sharpvid (http://www.pond5.com/index.php?ref=sharpvid)

I also recommend alamy for higher priced images.

http://www.alamy.com/ (http://www.alamy.com/)

Title: Re: Stock photography and stock footage portals
Post by: Sean Locke Photography on July 19, 2009, 07:00

Smells like spam to me.

Title: Re: Stock photography and stock footage portals
Post by: Phil on July 19, 2009, 07:13

if not spam then certainly a weird post in a forum about stock sites...

well micros are on the right, go back to the main forum page and down bit and you get info about them, and then you'll find illustrations, video & macro sites too :)

in amongst the wads of info on the forum is threads like were else should I submit & what other sites other than alamy.

Title: Re: Stock photography and stock footage portals
Post by: dnavarrojr on July 19, 2009, 09:33

I blogged my impression of three stock footage sites:

http://thedigitalbard.wordpress.com/ (http://thedigitalbard.wordpress.com/)

Title: Re: Stock photography and stock footage portals
Post by: cascoly on July 24, 2009, 14:29

Quote from: dnavarrojr on July 19, 2009, 09:33

I blogged my impression of three stock footage sites:

[url]http://thedigitalbard.wordpress.com/[/url] ([url]http://thedigitalbard.wordpress.com/[/url])

GREAT blogs - plenty of info for anyone trying to enter this new area.    -- i've been submitting t SS, pond, revo, motionclips for about 2 months now -- no sales as yet, so no comparisions possible.  for acceptance, i've found pond takes 90%+ while SS is about 60-70% and revo about 1/2 -- but many revo rejcts can be resubmitted and the reviewers have been extremely helpful in bothintitial review [specific suggestions for how to fix the clip] and for followyps

i'm considering submitting to canstock & zym also -- any ideas?  [i'll get arund to istock eventually but their submission process requires multiple conversions and upl's, and their performance in MS is minimal.

steve