I repriced all to $2 about 6 weeks ago after looking at their stats page and seeing the spikes at $2 and $5

http://www.featurepics.com/Editorial/Stock-Image-Price-Statistic.aspx

since doing so my sales are 2x luckyO and marginally more than crestock & canstock for the same period (but that isn't saying much

I also just found their sales by category page

http://www.featurepics.com/stat/soldimagesfromcategories.aspx

you can see cool stuff and use it to work out that they sell more shots of adult women than they do of hedgehogs

To my thinking (and I may well be wrong) you really are after people in the top 20-25%, these people would all earn much much more than $3-$5 and my concern would be that the 15% is geared up to return somewhere around this figure.  Sorry I don't see any advantages to this deal for the photographers you are after beyond 'increased exposure' something very wishy washy and unproven, and the ego of being able to say "I'm with Jupiter".

Personally it appears this deal is relying too heavily on these last two points and is extremely is one sided as far as finances, it feels to me a bit offensive, just offer the dumb microstockers 15% and tell them their playing in the big league now and they'll be happy, maybe not but thats how it feels to me.  I also feel hatman is right with his comments about bolstering company earnings at photographers expense.

I'm sure some people will take you up on it and hopefully well see the reports of how well they are doing, maybe I'm wrong and it will turn out well.

Phil

is it me or is there an irony here that the micros have long been critisiced for 'ripping off' the photographers compared to the traditional agencies, in particular, Istock's 20%, now a traditional agency offers 15% for exclusive, half of what istock pays a good stockist for exclusivity?

Steve there are micro stockers who earn $300000, not many but there are a few.  I dont think many traditional stock shooters earning $300000 would be getting 15%

hi, take a look at alamy and some the garbage there (that's not a criticism on anyone in particular, I have my fair share of garbage there too.) especially the lighting  and artefacts. 

Having started with alamy, upsizing 5-6mp images the quality expected at micros was a nasty shock.  In my case it was a good thing, learn't more about photography and stock in 3-4 months than the two years before.  But I seen  images on almost any library that I wouldn't consider keepers, let alone stock worthy.

Phil

it would be fun trying to pick the 7 most important for fotolia 

my questions are.

if I was to go along to jupiter outside of this "special" deal what is the royalty?
and what is the average $ / year of an image on jupiter?

I realise this is a seperate category within jupiter so there is no answer yet for this category but I would be concerned when I know a number of photogs that consider $10 image / year in traditional agencies as doing well.

Phil

hi, my view.  I takes me about 30 secs to point my ftp software to crestock. then I do other things.  I hit process files from ftp and do other stuff while it does it thing, then I add model release (at least I hopefully remember to add model release  ) select all, then submit.  Probably less than 5 minutes all up.   

They have high rejection, thats their choice,  I have had enough rejections, I can live with it, especially on site that isn't a huge seller.  Anyway my view is that there is enough pics on it that a buyer is likely to find something they are after, buyers are not going to come to another site specifically for my images so if my images are not there it wont be my image that gets the sale.  Sales are low but at least they are my low sales, for only a few minutes work per submission.

Rgds Phil

hi,

canstock does better for me but not by a lot and they have 1300 images whereas crestock has 850 and I was featured photographer for about 3 weeks, so its not really a fair comparison.

Hi,

Very noticeable.  Reduced spike in sales in the new stuff, but for me I seen a huge amount of the older stuff suddenly get more sales which has made up for it, so my $/image is about the same as last month but overall $ has increased because more images.

reviews are fast, no downloads, but they still only have 30000 images so not a lot and a long way to go.

I still upload but haven't had time to go back and hit submit on each image, and so now have 450 images waiting and really wondering if it is worth my time to do so.  I wish they had a upload system like 123rf or lo where you didn't have to bring up each image.

EDIT: Richard has seen this and emailed me and pointed out that there is a send all to approval button (doh!) this is great as I like the site and now I have that 2 minutes to process a batch like LO etc.  I still think it is going to be long haul until they get more people submitting, but hopefully it will get there as the few times I have dealt with Richard he has been very friendly and being UK based they may be able to hit other markets from the others at least to some extent.

Phil

if it was a friend for a school project, I'd just let them use it, I aint that greedy 

I offer the same images on both as RF, but if it sells on macro it is then removed from the micros and is then only available on the macros. (so far only sales on macros haven't big sellers on micros but it will be a real test when a big seller goes on macro 

Hi, dont want to be negative but some thoughts

featurepics offers 70% but plenty of people dont submit to it.
albumo still has less than 100 people with 1000 images and they pay you to upload, and there are few people talking to pulling images because the are 'pricing down' as such
bigwhitebox is non profit, but basically is dead?? (or very quiet)

finally for each and every image I upload, I have to go find the link on another site and copy / paste it into this site.  Sorry I see that as very slow and boring (worse than doing categories I think I would want see sales of the level of least StockXpert / dreamstime level before I would consider it.

Rgds
Phil