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HugoLu88:
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

Sean Locke Photography:
"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/

farbled:

--- Quote from: HugoLu88 on July 06, 2021, 07:34 ---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.

Other feedback on the idea generally is more than welcome!!! Thanks guys.

Hugo

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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?

Jo Ann Snover:
This idea - or things very like it - has been tried multiple times before, both by stock sites (iStock's Buy Request years back; Getty and Shutterstock briefs) and "platforms" for hiring photographers. As Sean mentioned, in the last couple of years a bunch of platforms to bring the gig economy to a custom photo shoot have popped up.

Without going into all the details about what went wrong, it's a hard thing to do well so that both buyers and photographers/illustrators can benefit. I can't see how anyone would be able to do this now (when agencies are falling all over themselves to give work away).

Take a look at this rundown of problems with a gig platform Snappr which gives you a flavor of things

https://www.insideimaging.com.au/2019/snappr-experience-low-pay-and-unrealistic-expectations/

IMO there was one thing that worked well when iStock was a young company, but I don't think it would translate into the current marketplace (it was the Request Forum for those who remember back that far).

cascoly:
as Jo Ann says, it's been tried many times - it's a waste of time for artists to search thru 1000s of images that might fit needs then compete with hundreds of others

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