Hi Justin,

Nice initiative, but 30$ a month is a VERY high rate even if you offer 100% commission.

My main concern is that you business plan does not really motivate you to find buyers for our photos (you get 0%) - it actually mainly motivates you to find new photographers, who are willing to invest the 30$ a month. All right, the first six months are free, but still... How about a payment model where you keep the first 30$ of the photographer's sale? That should also motivate you to do something about getting good sales for your contributors.

I will never pay this high amount to sell my images. No way. Make it $1 for 500 images. If no sales (payout) i want have back my money and the option to cancel the account at any time! Maybe i will jump.

how many buyers/ customers do you have?
There is no translation for customers not searching by english keywords?

It is only a API of deposit

Any sales at drawshop? Saw them at poll but looks a little bit too old fashioned for me.
Are there any more? Easy upload would be very important. Maybe SuperImageMarket?

I sell my images already at:
Shutterstock
iStock
Fotolia
Envato
Alamy
123RF
DepositPhotos
Dreamstime
Bigstockphoto
Canstockphoto
Indivstock
MostPhotos
Zoonar
ColourBox
Pixta
PantherMedia
Stockfresh
Kozzi
GLStockImages

whatever there doing It's GREAT! for me. best sales Month in a few years. July was the worst In Years. August is red Hot. Like the Old days. Now...If this could stay and,,, get back the SOD,EL and Footage Im a Very Happy Camper. Almost feel Like saying Im sorry.

lol rinderart post a couple days before -post found :
rinderart: "now, wait for a new bunch to come in here to say, "what problem??? i just had my bme!!!
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!+1000

What a mess this whole business is. really sad. And I totally Believe they have no Idea."

Funny

Quote from: GraphicLeftovers on August 13, 2016, 12:42

@Sean, We are not removing the option to select a size, just changing the pricing structure.  We will continue providing small, medium, and large sizes for each image.

That wasn't the point.  Nobody really cares about choosing a size when they're all the same price - we all have mega-gazillion-gigabit connections.  When I only need the flexibility that comes with a 800x800 pixel images, I'd be annoyed if I have to pay the same price as the guy who needs the 5500x3800 pixel image.   I shopped GL for my blog images because I could get the smallest size at a price that afforded me limited flexibility.

The problem with many sizes will also increase the database extremely which is not cost-effective.

They contacted video artists early on and offered to buy certain files for their library.  I don't know if they are still using that method, or are making some of their own now?

Thank you. Now i get it. First i thought all 2.000.000 files are for "free". Just 115.000. Information in small font size

Video blocks has two portions one a subscription side where they own the rights to the videos and the other where artists can upload their videos and get paid nearly 100% (minus paypal fee) of the 49.00.  When you look at their site both the subscription and the artists videos are shown with an icon depicting which one is which.

I don't know about graphicstock

Ah ok, thank you. So videblocks has 115.000 video files. How they get/ won them? Crazy. But good to hear they do not give others files for "free".

Please change the uploading progress. Have thousands of files. After uploading i have to click each file and need another click to submit. Please change it and i will go on. Good luck.

How much do you earn-  percentage or $ for a download at Videblocks / graphicstock?
I do not understand how that is working? Unlimited downloads. What the ... happy day..

Quote from: pixel8 on August 04, 2016, 20:36

I am curious to know everyones thoughts as to who is the largest purchaser of stock photos? Media Companies,  Web Designers or Individual Graphic Designers. When I look at Media Company Websites I can find Stock Images but when I look at some Individual Web Designer Sites and Graphic Artists I don't see very many if any as their work is more specialized to local small businesses who want work that reflects their own products or business. So who then is driving stock photography in terms of photo consumption or sales?

Thanks!

Web designers and graphic designers rarely buy stock. They don't have much of a budget, unless given one by their client. Media companies, technology companies, business organizations, food companies, healthcare companies and full-time bloggers are some of the biggest consumers of stock photography. I read a number of tech news outlets and I see a lot of SS images being used. Just yesterday, I saw a Rawpixel photo in a news story related to employment. I saw at least 30 technology images (photos and vectors) from SS on a website I frequent.

lol

Quote from: Dumc on August 05, 2016, 04:27

Quote from: Minsc on August 02, 2016, 14:00

It's likely that he bought a 1 month subscription and downloaded as much as possible everyday. If he downloaded 25 images everyday, that's 750 images a month.

I'm just waiting right now. It may take some time to resolve it.

At least, now you know, where your sales are coming from....

A download is a download, right? And every download help the images move up in the search results.

minsc - you kidding aren`t you?

How do you want to attract photographers and artists?
What's the purpose of the agency?
What is unique about this agency compared to others?
Why would buyers use this agency over the dozens of other well established agencies and other general options?
What is the profile of the target buyer?
How will you attract buyers?