Signed up a year or so after they launched. Just over �190 commission to date. I average one or two sales per month so not the daily adrenalin rush you get from a subs site like Shutterstock. The difference is most of those sales are medium/high res sales that pay �4 and �6 commission (40%). That's equals quite a few sub sales. Selling for me are my archive political images (Tony Blair etc) and UK location shots (Hastings pier etc). Sold one of a Greek island last month but that was the first non UK image I'd sold there. Obviously, only my personal experience with them and cannot speak for anyone else. They are, and will continue to be, part of my upload workflow and those less frequent (but higher paying) than microstock sales add up. Regards, David. 

I like the UK photographers group.  14 of us joined and there's not a single comment.  Can't get much more British than that   I was going to break the silence by saying something about the weather but I thought better of it.

LOL! As one of that 14 I must admit I had totally forgotten about Microstock.me. Between actually taking photographs, uploading them, updating my own blog and spending way too much time here at MSG, I just don't know where the time would come from to be active there as well. Still, thanks for reminding me it exists. BTW it rained a bit today here in Hastings Regards, David.

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Quote from: Dreamframer on May 23, 2011, 07:47

Oh yes, I forgot about "Faved". I always add new images in the faved folder, and those images have most downloads. And from time to time, if I see that some image doesn't have enough downloads even it's placed in there, I exclude it from faved, and add a new one.

Can you still do that? Last time I looked I couldn't see anything to click on to remove a previous "fave". Maybe it moved or am I missing something? Regards, David.

Yes you can still do that. When on the my fave images page, make sure you click "My Fave Images" and not the "My Images" to remove favourite images, then go back to "my images" to add new ones.

Dohh! Thanks Komar, I was overlooking that small detail! Regards, David.

Oh yes, I forgot about "Faved". I always add new images in the faved folder, and those images have most downloads. And from time to time, if I see that some image doesn't have enough downloads even it's placed in there, I exclude it from faved, and add a new one.

Can you still do that? Last time I looked I couldn't see anything to click on to remove a previous "fave". Maybe it moved or am I missing something? Regards, David.

Not a Partner as such but 123RF also sell through their parent site Inmagine.com. What's interesting is that Inmagine are now also selling editorial images from 123RF. This is pretty new I think as they weren't last time I looked (in fact their Contributor faq page still says that they do not take editorial). Could be one reason why I have had an increasing number of editorial sales at 123 recently. Regards, David.

Already flagged in this thread : Dreamstime sales not showing. Should be around four hours but seems to have run over that now. Regards, David.

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Quote from: Newsfocus1 on March 31, 2011, 06:14

Quote from: dirkr on March 30, 2011, 17:13

I've got mine in my account, but the result is nothing to write home about...
It's about a quarter of what I received for my first quarter in the third party program in 2009 and about 50% down from the last payout.  

No offence Dirkr, but are you sure that's the Third party sales and not just a regular sale? That happened to me last time when I got 5euro in my account just before the Third party ones were due -and I was dissapointed as well until I realised it was a (rather good) regular sale. Did you get an email from Jan saying your Third party sales have been posted? No one else is reporting anything yet. Regards, David.
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I did not receive any e-mail, but it wasn't a regular sale either. The money appeared (as the did last time) not under sales but under referral income. And as far as I know I do not have anyone referred to the site (at least it doesn't show that). So I assumed that it was the third party sales. It could be referral income, but then the information about having anybody as referral is either wrong or missing.

Thanks Dirkr, yes it does look that's the Third party sales then. They usually take a couple of days to work through everyone so I'll just have to be patient. Regards, David.

Blackcurrant cheesecake for me -please Regards, David.

Mine are there as well. With 123rf number but it doesn't show author of image. Just  "image by  blank space"        


Just checked some of mine there and all those I looked had my correct name as author. Anyone else checked theirs? Regards, David.

I didn't know Yay and few days ago started uploading images to Yay and... can't upload Wrote e-mail and even got answer-'technical problems on page, please try again' But after reading your posts about them, I decided not losing my time with them.
There are to many people who can't be wrong saying, there are no DLs on Yay and there is no sense uploading...

I haven't had that many sales on the Yay site itself but their "third party" (re-seller) programme produces a chunk of royalties once a quarter. One payout so far and in line for another when the 4th quarter (for 2010) sales are posted in the next few weeks. It's one of the quickest and easiest sites to upload to and the batch editing feature is fast and easy. The little time I spend getting images on the site makes it worthwhile for me and, with time, I hope the direct sales build as well. And, yes, they are nice people to deal with. Regards, David.

Thanks Warren, yes I'm sure there is more to do and the new site is developing fast. Review times are now great (I can only speak for editorial on that). Like you, I have a lot of archive B/W images which I am hoping will do as well as yours seem to have done. I can't see any views either btw. Regards, David.

By contrast, editorial submissions are flying through at the moment -usually within an hour or so and in one case, yesterday, under  5 minutes! I assume they use different reviewers for editorial. Regards, David.