I just wonder if I should keep uploading?

Have stopped uploading a while back now.
It's time to wait and see!

Time will tell -  you can always upload the rest if any wind catches the sails!
Hope the breeze gets up next month!

I stopped as well. And I will probably close my account in december.

YAY was my biggest mistake in microstock world.

I wasted my time on uploading 3000 images there.

They said all along that they wont market the site until the summer is over.  We will have a better idea by the end of the year.

It will be hard to market a site that allows derogatory/racial slurs and foul language on its "most popular searches" page. At first it was in Cyrillic, now it is in English. About a moth ago I addressed the issue via email to management; but no actions were taken.

I stopped uploading, and now am I am thinking about deleting my portfolio.

I said this so many times.. don't waste your time..

Quote from: sharpshot on August 11, 2008, 22:25
They said all along that they wont market the site until the summer is over.  We will have a better idea by the end of the year.

Exactly.

So far they have been straight forward with their intentions.  If October rolls around and they still aren't advertising, then you pull the plug before they turn into Albumo2.  But losing patience now is folly.  What was anyone expecting?  They came right out from Day 1 and said they would begin advertising in Autumn.

Just checked and I had my first sale yesterday and made 1 euro.

Quote from: DanP68 on August 12, 2008, 01:15

Quote from: sharpshot on August 11, 2008, 22:25
They said all along that they wont market the site until the summer is over.  We will have a better idea by the end of the year.

Exactly.

So far they have been straight forward with their intentions.  If October rolls around and they still aren't advertising, then you pull the plug before they turn into Albumo2.  But losing patience now is folly.  What was anyone expecting?  They came right out from Day 1 and said they would begin advertising in Autumn.

It just seems like another case of people getting impatient. SS's raise comes to mind when they said it would be announced mid-May, and some people started causing a fuss on May 1st.

it is very nice that we get 1 euro per subscription sale... quite a bit better than any other site!

I am still uploading to Yay and will be doing so until next spring, at which time I'll evaluate the returns... As of now, I already have €1 in my sales account

And now I got €2,5 from another sale (medium size) I am definitely starting to like YayMicro. YAY!!!

My ref link: http://yaymicro.com/register.action?referredBy=Nemo1024

Nothing for me yet, and I have just over 500 images with them.

But I'm certainly not going to jump ship, having taken the trouble to upload (though it wasn't much trouble ... this is about the easiest site).

What's the point? It costs nothing to keep your images there.

Can we delete our images at any time at Yay? I don't want to make the Albumo mistake.

just got my first 1 €

no more uploading till october or november

i got about 1400 images in port

Just got my first 3 sales there today. Keep faith, they are only 2.5 months old and stated before opening that their marketing blitz would be at fall only.

Yesterday I had my first sale, an editorial one, I received € 7,50
I only have a small portfolio of  100 pictures there.

Good to see reports of sales.
None for me so far!

Congratulations, Claudia! Editorials are rare (at least I did not have any in all of the sites I am with).
Rene, yes, you can delete any photo at any time there - no restrictions.

I just discovered that the minimum payout level is €30, which looks very realistic to achieve...

(FYI: 572 shots in my portfolio)

http://yaymicro.com/register.action?referredBy=Nemo1024

Got my first as well. Euro 0,5 for small size.

I might be a bit slow on the uptake here, but when ppl complain about a site not making any money, an about what a waste of time it was to upload their images; why then want to waste even more time deleting the images from the site again.
I mean, its free to have them online, it doesnt cost you anything, neither time nor effort, and you already feel that youve wasted your time. I can't see how it could hurt to have them online, once theyve already been uploaded. They could actually produce enough sales for a payout, sure most likely in a long long time though.

So why do people want to delete their port from non-producing sites, at the first signs of slow sales?

(and who had honestly thought theyd get a fair amount of sales at a newly founded site already before theyd started their marketing campaign. It takes time to get a customer base.)

Quote from: JBe on August 21, 2008, 07:21

So why do people want to delete their port from non-producing sites, at the first signs of slow sales?

Why?  Because it sends a clear message that we are in this as business partners, and that if the agency does not advertise on our behalf we will take our work elsewhere.  Don't you think it is important that agencies realize they cannot keep our images and do nothing but pay for its server?

If you keep your images at Site A even when they do nothing to advertise, what will you tell Site B when they pull something similar? 

I am patiently waiting for advertising, and by the way Fall is just about here in terms of the business cycle.  September 21 means nothing.  The real business cycle begins after Labor Day weekend when students return to college/school, workers return to their businesses, etc.  So if they don't start advertising in 2 weeks, you will have reason to be skeptical.

I will give them a year and I don't expect too much.  There is lots of competition but they have shown that they are great at designing a functional contributor friendly websites.  Several of the other sites have an inferior website or a tedious upload procedure.  Hopefully they will be just as good with the buyers.

It looks like it took the current big sites a long time to get going and they had very little competition.  I think giving a new site less than a year to generate sales is unfair.

I certainly agree with Dan here.
Well said!


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Quote from: JBe on August 21, 2008, 07:21

So why do people want to delete their port from non-producing sites, at the first signs of slow sales?

Why?  Because it sends a clear message that we are in this as business partners, and that if the agency does not advertise on our behalf we will take our work elsewhere.  Don't you think it is important that agencies realize they cannot keep our images and do nothing but pay for its server?

If you keep your images at Site A even when they do nothing to advertise, what will you tell Site B when they pull something similar? 

I am patiently waiting for advertising, and by the way Fall is just about here in terms of the business cycle.  September 21 means nothing.  The real business cycle begins after Labor Day weekend when students return to college/school, workers return to their businesses, etc.  So if they don't start advertising in 2 weeks, you will have reason to be skeptical.
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You are correct.  Also, they are very new only a few months old in terms of being live.  If you stop uploading the chances of sales go down.  I have found that with any site, especially new ones, it can take up to 6 months to start seeing sales.  So, stop if you want.  Or be more patient and at least give them until the end of the year.

Quote from: DanP68 on August 12, 2008, 01:15

Quote from: sharpshot on August 11, 2008, 22:25
They said all along that they wont market the site until the summer is over.  We will have a better idea by the end of the year.

Exactly.

So far they have been straight forward with their intentions.  If October rolls around and they still aren't advertising, then you pull the plug before they turn into Albumo2.  But losing patience now is folly.  What was anyone expecting?  They came right out from Day 1 and said they would begin advertising in Autumn.