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Stockfresh email about new curation standards
Justanotherphotographer:
--- Quote from: sharpshot on August 02, 2017, 05:39 ---One of the best of the low earner sites is MostPhotos. They accept everything. Alamy do quite well accepting everything that passes basic technical requirements. DT tried to be more selective with disastrous consequences. Image Vortex have always been very selective and sell almost nothing.
I do think sites like Stockfresh need a USP but this one doesn't work. Canva got sales going by trying something a bit different. I'm sure there's other ways to stand out from the crowd, drastically restricting content is a short cut to failure.
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DT outperforms MP by hundreds to one and alamy by a factor of 5 for me, so horses for courses I guess.
sharpshot:
--- Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on August 03, 2017, 02:02 ---
--- Quote from: sharpshot on August 02, 2017, 05:39 ---One of the best of the low earner sites is MostPhotos. They accept everything. Alamy do quite well accepting everything that passes basic technical requirements. DT tried to be more selective with disastrous consequences. Image Vortex have always been very selective and sell almost nothing.
I do think sites like Stockfresh need a USP but this one doesn't work. Canva got sales going by trying something a bit different. I'm sure there's other ways to stand out from the crowd, drastically restricting content is a short cut to failure.
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DT outperforms MP by hundreds to one and alamy by a factor of 5 for me, so horses for courses I guess.
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I compare DT to SS, IS and FT/AS. They were around in the early years of microstock. I'm sure that becoming too selective with reviews hasn't worked out for DT. MP is more comparable to Stockfresh because they were both late to the market.
Eco:
I am afraid for Stockfresh it is too little too late. RIP
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: sharpshot on August 02, 2017, 03:24 ---So many sites have failed with this strategy. Shame to see Stockfresh not learning the lesson. I have no idea why they can't make a collection of their best images? It's so subjective, I'm sure the vast majority of buyers like to make their own minds up, hence SS is doing so well and now other sites are following their strategy.
A smaller collection of images might work in theory but in practice is there a site that has made that work? Stocksy is different because their images aren't on all the other microstock sites. Stockfresh don't sell enough to get exclusive images.
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Personally I think SS are not doing so well since they loosened their inspections they probably had it about right before but I agree when sites make judgement about sales potential or worse aesthetics thats wrong but I believe they should have a decent technical standard.
PokemonMaster:
Cutting assortment for below-low-seller is funny. Do they have buyers ready to pay for better, but less content? it is usual in retail to top up the price if you rise the quality. Do they have buyers ready for this? Do they have any buyers, actually? So invest in attracting them first!
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