Quote from: Uncle Pete on July 07, 2021, 16:58

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 07, 2021, 16:36

Quote from: HugoLu88 on July 06, 2021, 13:34
...In the proposed idea, contributors do not shoot on demand but rather select photos from an existing portfolio (or from others' portfolios too) and submit groups of photos to the buyer, the buyer chooses which ones they like best (mixing and matching) and then photos are purchased a la microstock websites...

In that case I am not sure what the value is to the customer. By the time they have come up with a proposal etc. they could have just searched the stock sites, seems even more cumbersome.

That's what I was trying to point out. And for the second part, "Buyers / sellers would use this service because the prices would be better for both." seems to be a contradiction. Better prices for them and better rewards for us? Where does that come from?

As for the poll, answers 2 and 3 are virtually the same. No or I'd rather sell through and agency. That's No and No? 

Lower commissions! e.g. move from $20 to buyer $10 (50%) for you to $18 to buyer $12 (33%) ?

Point taken on the poll answers. Thanks!

Quote from: Uncle Pete on July 07, 2021, 15:48


Some have suggested, a way to market already existing shots. I suppose a clearing house. Hey, can't buyers learn to use a search that's already out there? Why would they pay more or use some marketplace? What would a job marketplace give us and even more important, why would buyers want to pay for that, when there are already hundreds of agencies?

I think the idea was for a buyer to post photo specs and contributors to search + submit, thus reducing the time for buyers finding the right photos. Buyers / sellers would use this service because the prices would be better for both. There are clearly challenges to this, but the search is clearly non trivial given agencies are taking 50% commissions, and the search is the agencies' main functions (excluding rights managed / clearance services for highly specific requests).

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Do you mean we'd submit like a generic plan or non-branded example? AndbBased on that they'd choose who gets hired for the paid gig?
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Hey farbled. The example my friends used was a company is trying to do an internal marketing campaign (e.g. corporate brochure) and they list the image needs as [10x photos for a corporate brochure, of size x, resolution y etc].

Contributors may already have particular photos in mind, so can easily and quickly submit 10x suitable photos to the job. It's less of a gig, literally just allows contributors to incur the search cost instead of buyers.

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 06, 2021, 22:42
"contributors submit photo ideas. If the buyer likes them, they purchase them"

Shooting on spec is never a good idea.

But essentially, that's what Snapwire and others do: https://snapwire.co/

Thanks Sean. That's a really helpful pointer - I think the idea they had was less geared towards a shoot on spec but more focussed on a job with a specific need for a type of stock photo already existing.

Hi everyone,

Some friends of mine work in marketing and have a few pain points when using sites like Getty. They find themselves struggling to search, spending lots of time finding the suitable image (or set of images) for commercial and marketing campaigns.

I was wondering if as contributors, you would all use a service that acts like a marketplace, where designers and marketers post jobs (including things like type of photo, photo criteria, budget per photo) and contributors submit photo ideas. If the buyer likes them, they purchase them in the same way as on stock photo sites such as Getty.

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A number of very helpful responses have highlighted the issues with platforms like Snappr that aim to provide photography services on demand. This is different to the proposed idea. In the proposed idea, contributors do not shoot on demand but rather select photos from an existing portfolio (or from others' portfolios too) and submit groups of photos to the buyer, the buyer chooses which ones they like best (mixing and matching) and then photos are purchased a la microstock websites.
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Other feedback on the idea generally is more than welcome!!! Thanks guys.

Hugo

Thanks for this thread. Just what I needed.