Author Topic: Stocksy seeing huge growth! (Read 18402 times)

Dakota · « **on:** June 04, 2016, 04:17 »

"Stocksy has reported another year of impressive growth with gross sales of $7,928,745 million in 2015. That is up 126% from $3.5 million in 2014. The great news for image creators is that Stocksy paid out $4,323,735 in royalties. That’s 55% of gross revenue collected. In addition, because the company is a Co-Op, they were able to pay out an additional $200,000 in dividends to members who sold images during the year." Pickerell.

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2016, 07:36 »

That's great! Congrats to all on Stocksy

mlwp · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2016, 09:29 »

Cider Apple · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2016, 10:26 »

When will stocksy accept video? I herd it's in the pipeline but that was said ages ago!

mlwp · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2016, 11:39 »

Quote from: Cider Apple on June 04, 2016, 10:26

When will stocksy accept video? I herd it's in the pipeline but that was said ages ago!

It's still in the pipeline but coming soon.

Rose Tinted Glasses · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2016, 12:43 »

why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

everest · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2016, 12:45 »

Impressive.! Really shows that the sky is the limit for photographer friendly environments......

My Istock crown has become too heavy now. But not interested in giving it up to become independent submitting to Shutter, Adobe, bla bla bla. Hope to become someday part of it. For me the future is to be part of a contributor driven agency or nothing.

everest · « **Reply #7 on:** June 04, 2016, 12:47 »

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on June 04, 2016, 12:43

why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

No rats here . They are all in Corporation land ;-) Rose Tinted Glasses. Remember they pay 75% for extended licenses.............

mlwp · « **Reply #8 on:** June 04, 2016, 12:48 »

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on June 04, 2016, 12:43

why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

There are many exceptions to the 50% royalty rate, it's often times much higher. Look elsewhere for that rat you smell.

MichaelJayFoto · « **Reply #9 on:** June 04, 2016, 14:58 »

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on June 04, 2016, 12:43

why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

I smell it, too. But the smell reminds me more of envy than anything animal.

Rose Tinted Glasses · « **Reply #10 on:** June 04, 2016, 15:42 »

Quote from: MichaelJayFoto on June 04, 2016, 14:58

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on June 04, 2016, 12:43
why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

I smell it, too. But the smell reminds me more of envy than anything animal.

No envy from here. I continue to make a good living from my distribution choices. Besides, I don't even shoot the style they seem to want.

loop · « **Reply #11 on:** June 05, 2016, 18:32 »

Quote from: Dakota on June 04, 2016, 04:17

"Stocksy has reported another year of impressive growth with gross sales of $7,928,745 million in 2015. That is up 126% from $3.5 million in 2014. The great news for image creators is that Stocksy paid out $4,323,735 in royalties. That’s 55% of gross revenue collected. In addition, because the company is a Co-Op, they were able to pay out an additional $200,000 in dividends to members who sold images during the year." Pickerell.

How many contributors they have? Because, let's say, for a scarce crew of 5.000 contributors that would avergade about 800 $ a year per phographer.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #12 on:** June 05, 2016, 18:36 »

We have less than 1000, right now.

Deyan Georgiev Photography · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2016, 02:11 »

As far as i understood will not be accepted 500 photographer per year, but up to 1000 in total, right? For the time being...

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2016, 02:19 »

We need more sites set up using this model. I wish I wasn't working flat out maintaining my income from the sites I upload to!

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #15 on:** June 06, 2016, 04:23 »

Quote from: Deyan Georgiev on June 06, 2016, 02:11

As far as i understood will not be accepted 500 photographer per year, but up to 1000 in total, right? For the time being...

Right. Currently, the limit is 1,000. But occasionally they will investigate and remove people that haven't contributed in a long time or aren't active in any way.

panicAttack · « **Reply #16 on:** June 06, 2016, 04:34 »

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on June 06, 2016, 02:19

We need more sites set up using this model. I wish I wasn't working flat out maintaining my income from the sites I upload to!

agree, and concept isn't that hard to achieve at all

we need 50% commission site with exclusive images, higher quality compared to usual microstock photos (flooding new searches) and without need for those pastel/retro/artistic style.

person/company who make it happen would profit very nice.

I'm first to submit images only to that site and images that don't get accepted go to every other sites I usually submit to.

jen · « **Reply #17 on:** June 06, 2016, 10:39 »

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on June 04, 2016, 12:43

why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

those glasses don't appear to be very rose tinted...

gillian vann · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2016, 17:48 »

Quote from: Rose Tinted Glasses on June 04, 2016, 12:43

why would a co-op report sales publicly? how does any agency pay 55% of gross collected revenue when royalty rates are 50%?

i smell a rat.

actually whoever posted that really shouldn't have as we have all signed an agreement not to publicly post internal communications........ but perhaps some of these figures have been made public somewhere else.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2016, 18:56 »

I checked - HQ released those figures to Jim P.

PaulieWalnuts · « **Reply #20 on:** June 30, 2016, 19:09 »

Some pretty impressive growth.

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