Quote from: photoshow on August 12, 2008, 15:19

Quote from: Bettyboop on August 12, 2008, 14:59

WOW seems I tuched a raw serve wit some of u serial whingers!!! phtoshow u dont know wat i know bout this bizness n im not gettin into no name calling wit u r ironarrow either but list3ning to yall banging on like sum skoolkid whos had his popsicle taken away makes me wunder u pepole got nothin better to be doin iwth ur lives.

Dang I feel like I am talking to Miz!

I think editorial aka contakt aka bettyboop is more like it.  .... banned once again.

someone who whinges about people whinging...
spends their time on a forum complaining that people spend too much time on forums...
and contributes nothing (not even lame jokes)
bye...

I turned off subs as soon as they offered an opt out but I see some of the big portfolios are still opted in.  It would of been nice to know what iophoto, andesr and yuri think of this.  They have all posted here at times but perhaps they are all busy.

Why not make the decision for yourself? Maybe opting in for the time being and testing the waters out for a few months might not be such a bad thing.
Of course this is my opinion.

It's all live now. Looks decent.

Catchy headline:
"We've added something special to Photos.com. Actually, we added about 1.3 million special somethings."

Seems to be working fine, now.

Images are up there but I'd suggest those of you with images there check your search placement - a couple of checks that I did had the StockXpert images way, waaaay at the back of the bus. Things on page 1 of search results at StockXpert on page 16 at Photos.com plus, for example.

Well at least you found some of yours   I could not find any of my 600+.

I searched on keywords that were pretty unique with only 2 pages results and the image was not there.  May be they did not finish to index all of our images...

Also I could not find a way to purchase an EPS file coming from StockXpert.  It was just on sale as a regular image or as an extended licence, but not as an EPS file.

Didn't find most of mine either. I guess they need to do some more programming!
And you can't click on someones portfolio.... I hope they fix that as well!

I tried some searches and could not find anything this afternoon.  What I did find however was arguably one of the worst image libraries I have ever encountered.  I cannot believe some of that stuff is online, let alone selling for a few hundred dollars.

I managed to find a few of mine...  it looks like the database is getting there.

How are we going to see the photos.com sales reported on stockxpert?  Are they going to be reported as a 'Stockxpert subscription' or something else??

perhaps Steve-0 has input on this??

I saw the answer to this on their forums. There will be a 'photos.com subscription' line when you have one.

Anyone had a sale through photos.com yet?  I hope there are enough buyers still there to make this venture worthwhile.

No -- but with such a few number of images there before the merge, I doubt that there are many buyers cruising their site at the present time.  Hopefully they are going to take advantage of the influx of images and do some big time promos on the site.

We've been looking at the Compete/Alexa numbers with respect to iStock.  If you do the same for Stockxpert and Photos.com, you will find that Stockxpert gets much more traffic than Photos.com. 

In July, StockXpert had 93,000 unique visitors while Photos.com had only 58,000.  By comparison, Dreamstime alone had 344,000.

Based on these numbers, the maximum amount of sales we could expect from Photos.com initially would be 1/3 that of our regular StockXpert sales.  In addition, not every Photos.com subscriber is going to be a Plus subscriber, so that cuts into it significantly more.  I'm going to guess 1 out of every 10 sales will come from Photos.com.  If they can grow the traffic there, then it could become a significant increase for us.

I would imagine that the photos.com domain would be able to get them lots of new customers without doing much marketing at all. And now that they don't offer a crappy product like before, maybe more of those customers will actually sign up with them. Whether that is good for us or not... I'll let you decide.

For people who don't have a clue about where to buy photos, photos.com is probably easier to find than StockXpert or other agencies, but I don't think I will base my income on people who don't have a clue. They may get some sales for free this way, but so many microstock and stock agencies are already household names within most relevant customer groups.

An easy to remember domain name doesn't help much without proper marketing and a proper content. Since photos.com has existed for a while with lousy content, it'll take a lot of advertising to tell people that it has changed, and why spend all the money doing that, when they could just lead people to StockXpert instead?

I have about 100 photos and still zero dl.s for a three months...
Photos.com also doesn't help!

I have more views on Cutcaster...