I've 8 agencies that give me just 10% of the revenue.

I hear you Steve and your results speaks for itself.

My biggest concern about submitting to smaller low-earning agencies is that they may struggling so much that they decide to have a garage sale on your images, and/or change their contributor terms and conditions to make it a worse deal for the contributor. What do you think?

I have about 70 images and no sales at Arcangel. Maybe I'm not doing it right ...
https://www.arcangel.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2U1HZOQJK390P

Nicely done. Clearly you invest a lot of time and effort into each image.

I got in touch with the Director of Arcangel Michael Mascaro about a year ago when I had 174 images and he had the following advice:

Your email regarding sales was forwarded to me. I've looked over your images and it's a great start to a portfolio but 174 images is only a start (especially when you consider that 50 images is the absolute minimum we accept as a first submission). Submit regularly, add the correct location details to your images and ensure you have uploaded the necessary model/property releases and the sales will
start to come in.

A year has passed and since 400+ accepted images...still waiting..

Here's a link to my portfolio:

https://www.arcangel.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2U1HZOO9ZKGI#/SearchResult&VBID=2U1HZOQ3UAC8Q

I looked at Trevellion but I find that my style suits Arcangel more since i like producing artsy dark imagery. Trevellion seems to be more like Stocksy (if I'm not mistaken). Also, quite difficult to get in.

Angela: Did you know that within Arcangel you have the option to submit to a non-exclusive gallery? It's called "NX". So you could submit to Arcangel and other Rights-Managed galleries. I've started doing that because I can't wait forever to get earn. 

One more reason to submit premium images to Midstock, especially as RM.

Welcome Julia!

Considering this isn't the most commercially appealing and versatile of shots, perhaps he should be happy to earn 25 cents.

Hi,

I recall a similar critique a few months back! - http://www.microstockgroup.com/photo-critique/shutterstock-portfolio-critique-needed-thanks-in-advance/msg493213/#msg493213

Since then you've made good use of your wide angle lens. Your brexit stuff has high editorial value and looks well-executed.

Also nice carnival pics. You did well to get clean shots from the road instead of the usual from the railing.

Do both commercial and editorial. I would suggest uploading editorials to Alamy, including their Live News Feed.

You're doing well - keep going!

This is a really long time for contributors to be holding up valuable images!

If they were editorials I'd be seriously annoyed since they have a shorter shelf life but my pics are kinda timeless (don't know about yours). Agreed, a long time to wait...no news is good news.......maybe the people waiting are on the reserve list.

But I love checking each site one by one. It's part of my morning routine. A nice cup of coffee, some news, and checking up to 20 sites to see what I earned while I slept. (not sarcasm, I truly do enjoy the process).

I like it too, it's like scratch and win tickets. Sometimes there's a big prize...

Never mind, it's from my end. false alarm.

Perhaps you are leading people on with inflated dreams? I suppose DT wouldn't publish the truth that the average person here, 79 of them, are making $35 a month on DT. That's one of the good sites. Average means the top people are doing better and using your same assumption of a bell curve, a similar number are doing worse.

I made some mention of Midstock sites and Rights-Managed, which they edited out. DT is a low earner that's for sure...it's a tough market out there and they'll struggle to stay competitive.

Have to give them some credit for their fun incentive for contributors to get these articles up.

Thanks for the mention, Steve.

Hope you try again to have your article accepted, it sounds like an interesting/useful theme.

high on hopes that i could cut my day job and make a living on footage in 2018. Looks really possible at this time

Love your enthusiasm

I decided to write about a tricky subject � how to come up with ideas (and images) to illustrate things in the news.

Interesting topic, I look forward to reading.