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New Sites - General / Re: Photola - New microstock site

« on: July 27, 2007, 08:18 »

This turns up in front of the search on the tag 'female':
http://www.photola.co.uk/show_image.php?photo=1750&name=Breast+Cancer - no comment I guess...

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**SnapVillage.com / Keymentoring for free!**

« on: July 25, 2007, 16:50 »

My first photos were approved at SnapVillage, and yes, they filled in a description and keywords. Not bad at all.

Am I the only one that has this wicked idea of uploading to SV first, wait till they are online, then just copy the keywords/description that they provided and after that upload to the rest of the 6-gang?

Goofy.

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Microstock News / Re: What is your opinion on Albumo?

« on: July 23, 2007, 19:31 »

Quote from: bryan_luckyoliver on July 23, 2007, 12:16

Make sure you know who is running the show.

So who is it? You know more ;-)

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General Stock Discussion / Re: A perfect microstock website - what's it like in your opinion?

« on: July 22, 2007, 19:07 »

Quote from: Jagelski on July 22, 2007, 14:01

By the way, I recently read some information about "midstock" and someone said that it was an "empty" market, but I was unable to find any further information about it.

I think that was Bryan of LuckyOliver a while ago:
http://www.luckyoliver.com/blog/242/microstock_vs_midstock

As to answer your specific question at the start: upload speed is very important for a new site where you have to upload an entire portfolio. That means FTP and IPTC extraction of course. No categories (does any customer uses it?) or auto-categories like CanStock (their keyword helper is neat too).

The less you have to tick and click per photo, the better. On ThePhotoStorage for instance, you have to click 3 times 'I agree conditions' to upload photos. Extended licenses, use, photo/illustration should be saved in session cookies, so you don't have to tick those on every photo.

The Model Releases are slowing down the upload workflow most. On most sites you have to pick the MRF on every photo. Imagine you have 20 photos with the same model.
I find the solution of 123RF the best: in the Release Folder, you can pick a specific release, then you get the thumbs of your portfolio, most recent first. By simple ticking then, you can add that release to a number of photos at the same time.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: A perfect microstock website - what's it like in your opinion?

« on: July 22, 2007, 12:12 »

Quote from: Jagelski on July 21, 2007, 14:43

I am going to open a new microstock website.

Another new one? Sigh. After Snapvillage, Geckostock, PhotoStorage, Newdarkroom? It must be the season.

The only new ones that sortof made it in the low top 10 are Featurepics and LuckyOliver. They had an innovative concept. LO is strong in community building, FP is strong in setting your own prices and high % payout. Both were designed well from the start with all features present, unlike Snapvillage.

In this oversaturated market, what's going to be your USP? It was easy for ShutterStock to gain ground in a very profitable subscription market because it was the first. The market has been taken 100% now, so your USP should be very good. Anyone (including me) can program a stock site. Marketing makes the difference.

Oh, and don't even count on having any lift-off before you have more than 300,000 photos online. I hope you have very deep pockets to bridge those 2-3 years without any income. ;-)
Just a thought. Reviewers get paid 0.1$ per image reviewed. That means 3,000$. Support, forums, sales... one full-time worker at least. 30,000$ per year.

Good luck ;-)

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Bigstock.com / Re: I joined BigStock now, and other stuff.

« on: December 09, 2006, 09:41 »

Quote from: litifeta on December 09, 2006, 06:20

It says photo below 10mb. Teach me to take my glasses to work. There did not seem to be an upload limit. I sent 20 today. Will try and load another 200 tomorrow. Wonder how long it takes to review them, and what their reviewers are like?

Welcome to BigStock. You have great stock stuff! As to BigStock, it's a very friendly site, which is selling at a stable rate, but about 1/2 of DT,SS and IS for me. Review times are fairly quick now, a couple of days. DT takes 10 days at the moment. They are very relaxed as to noise etc..., als long as the concept is OK.

Yes they only allow 10MB to be uploaded. I have a 10MP cam, and in those rare cases my pics exceed 10MB, I save in PS at quality 11 instead of 12. They have no problem with that.

With your quality of work, you won't have any problems!

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