Hey gang.

I have a question about releases: I'm getting footage rejected, because I don't have a property release. The footage is aerial stuff of Copenhagen - just with normal housing and residental areas, no known buildings or landmarks.
Yet I see others having loads of material up, from everywhere in the world, with literaly 100's of buildings (including known ones), selling it as commercial clips (NOT editorial). HOW?!? How is that possible, and then why do I get rejections for some clip of a few simple apartment blocks....?

Please help me to understand this

To whom it may concern:

You can opt out on sale of your entire video library. Read this article. Maybe a strong signal to send to Shutterstock if everybody did it? :-)

https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/en_US/kbat02/000006563?q=opting+out+of+sales&l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1

Hey guys

I dropped Alamy about three years ago, after I've been on the platform for maybe 2-3 years - without any sales. I remember the upload process and all the keywording etc to be such a hassle, that I just gave up on it.

I'm now doing a little research to see what other photographers do with their stock portfolio, and how they "make things happen". Many are talking about Alamy as a good source of income.

Has the upload process changed at Alamy, are you guys selling anything, is it worth it to create a new profile and try again? Please let me have your input.

Thanks

Brian

Hi

Sorry if I sound like a n00b, but what is Fotosearch, and who are they connected to? I see lots of my pictures there, and I haven't placed them there!

Brian

Hi guys

Seems to be a lot going on with Istock these days!

Do you know of a site called http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/ - it's based in UK. They are also giving away free photos, but in smaller, almost useless sizes and quality. Then the bigger, better and more useful versions of the same pictures are being sold at a pretty good price. This is all something that you as a contributor knows, when you sign up. These are the terms that you sign up to. I have had lots of downloads of my pictures, and a fair amount of sale, where my commission ranges from $ 2,25 - 7,50 per file.

Their philosophy is that if people really want free pictures, nothing can prevent them to find it online. That's why they're giving customers access to photos in almost useless quality, and sell the bigger files at a little higher price.

What's your view on this kind of business plan?

Another thing: Do you know the Colourbox.com site? It's based in Denmark, with offices in Finland and New York. I guess they will be happy to take over Istock's contributors and customers :-) I'm having fair sales there, and uploading is pretty easy. They're covering Scandinavia, Germany, UK and other parts of Europe as it is now, and they're supplying MetroXpress in Scandinavia with photos. They're not even between the Low Earners in the microstock poll, but I think they could be worth trying out for some of you.

Best regards

Brian