To my thinking (and I may well be wrong) you really are after people in the top 20-25%, these people would all earn much much more than $3-$5 and my concern would be that the 15% is geared up to return somewhere around this figure.  Sorry I don't see any advantages to this deal for the photographers you are after beyond 'increased exposure' something very wishy washy and unproven, and the ego of being able to say "I'm with Jupiter".

Personally it appears this deal is relying too heavily on these last two points and is extremely is one sided as far as finances, it feels to me a bit offensive, just offer the dumb microstockers 15% and tell them their playing in the big league now and they'll be happy, maybe not but thats how it feels to me.  I also feel hatman is right with his comments about bolstering company earnings at photographers expense.

I'm sure some people will take you up on it and hopefully well see the reports of how well they are doing, maybe I'm wrong and it will turn out well.

Phil

is it me or is there an irony here that the micros have long been critisiced for 'ripping off' the photographers compared to the traditional agencies, in particular, Istock's 20%, now a traditional agency offers 15% for exclusive, half of what istock pays a good stockist for exclusivity?

Steve there are micro stockers who earn $300000, not many but there are a few.  I dont think many traditional stock shooters earning $300000 would be getting 15%

it would be fun trying to pick the 7 most important for fotolia 

hi, my view.  I takes me about 30 secs to point my ftp software to crestock. then I do other things.  I hit process files from ftp and do other stuff while it does it thing, then I add model release (at least I hopefully remember to add model release  ) select all, then submit.  Probably less than 5 minutes all up.   

They have high rejection, thats their choice,  I have had enough rejections, I can live with it, especially on site that isn't a huge seller.  Anyway my view is that there is enough pics on it that a buyer is likely to find something they are after, buyers are not going to come to another site specifically for my images so if my images are not there it wont be my image that gets the sale.  Sales are low but at least they are my low sales, for only a few minutes work per submission.

Rgds Phil

Hi,

Very noticeable.  Reduced spike in sales in the new stuff, but for me I seen a huge amount of the older stuff suddenly get more sales which has made up for it, so my $/image is about the same as last month but overall $ has increased because more images.

if it was a friend for a school project, I'd just let them use it, I aint that greedy 

Hi, dont want to be negative but some thoughts

featurepics offers 70% but plenty of people dont submit to it.
albumo still has less than 100 people with 1000 images and they pay you to upload, and there are few people talking to pulling images because the are 'pricing down' as such
bigwhitebox is non profit, but basically is dead?? (or very quiet)

finally for each and every image I upload, I have to go find the link on another site and copy / paste it into this site.  Sorry I see that as very slow and boring (worse than doing categories I think I would want see sales of the level of least StockXpert / dreamstime level before I would consider it.

Rgds
Phil