I've just been emailed by a new microstock site, called yaymicro, which is looking for contributors.
Any of you guys have already heard about it?

Best regards,
Diego

With a name like that, why would anyone NOT want to join??? 

They have been in touch with me too. You never know upfront whether they will be successful or not, but the good things are:

* they are macro-stock professionals
* they do have start capital
* they do have a plan and they don't rush to open "beta"
* they do listen to contributors very carefully

The main bad thing is that they are new while there are already quite big players around....

And one thing which I am not sure whether it's really bad or not is that they don't seem to have large enough start capital to plan for a massive marketing, but they plan selective targeted marketing. With the founders coming from macro-stock this could be not a bad thing if they already have a network of contacts in that market...

They are at the bottom of my list, but when I have some spare time (like a break at work between the meetings) I am uploading little by little.
P.S. LuckyOliver and Canstock are even lower in my list, so why not give Yay a try?

if i had just one image, it would make sense to join a site a day ...

Any of you guys have already heard about it?

Yap and I'd wish you would have kept it private for a while like all other people did here. 
Right now they work mostly on invitation till their site is 100%. No beta at all, but shock and awe when ready. Next week they'll put a referral program in place and it would have been better to announce it then. They will launch in June after they got 200,000 shots and when the site works flawlessly.

That's called the non-Snapvillage approach 

It's the site with the least number of clicks to upload I know of.
Very fast FTP, flawless.
Correct import of all IPTC fields, even "country" for those that use it.
Limit of 50 keywords.
Great MRF attach pop-up screen with model thumbs and checkboxes per model - fine for couple or group shots.
No categories: after FTP upload, one click on the completion page is enough to submit (easier and faster than Featurepics).
Review time of 5 seconds (last week).
They take editorial and I have the impression they are runaways from a large established Scandinavian editorial macro site.

Yay! have just signed up as I am going to pull the plug on a couple of no hopers!

It can never be worse than Albumo.
And they pay in Euros.

Just signed up and uploaded 11 images and they were accepted already in a matter of minutes. I shoot mainly wildlife and nature, hopefully they will do well there. I know its harder to make sales in that niche but that's what I enjoy doing.

Just signed up and uploaded 11 images and they were accepted already in a matter of minutes. I shoot mainly wildlife and nature, hopefully they will do well there. I know its harder to make sales in that niche but that's what I enjoy doing.

I was looking at your portfolio you have some nice images of wildlife. Are you a hunter?

Quote from: takestock on March 24, 2008, 18:33

Yay! have just signed up as I am going to pull the plug on a couple of no hopers!

It can never be worse than Albumo.
And they pay in Euros.

Albumo   5 months and 50 cents in sales with 300 images. I let them have the 50 cents and jumped ship. Didn't care about their "upload bonus" either. I'd be waiting until 2012 for any payout with the traffic they get. I dunno, there was just something that bugged me about that site. So being out is one less thing to worry about.

Yay Euros!

How different is this from the Canadian site, "WooYaymicro"?

Quote from: FlemishDreams on March 24, 2008, 18:15

Yap and I'd wish you would have kept it private for a while like all other people did here. 

Well said, when I got my email I was impressed that it was personally written and as a result I've uploaded there.

It would seem now that anybody can contribute, I just hope they maintain the site on a professional level, they've started out well and have a good marketing strategy and background.

For anybody that has joined as a result of seeing this thread I implore you to maintain a level of professionalism on this site, don't turn the forum into something like LO or FP which now come over as sites for amateur snappers, that will kill Yaymicro and we'll all lose out on any potential sales.

You know what kills Yaymicro?  "Yaymicro" - Thats just as bad a name as "Snapvillage" and/or "LuckyOliver". 

80/20 rule.  80% of your revenue will come from 20% of the sites (if not now, but eventually) - your time to upload to the remaining 80% isn't worth that 20% -

Very smooth indeed, and Norwegian... how can I resist? Gotta support those poor souls up there in the freezing north   

I'm in. First photos approved already. But how do I tell them that a photo is editorial?

when you are editing the info for an image there is a box where you change it from being 'artistic' to 'editorial'

80/20 rule.  80% of your revenue will come from 20% of the sites (if not now, but eventually) - your time to upload to the remaining 80% isn't worth that 20% -

That's what I'm finding too.

De acuerdo con Diego 

Sorry but I believe that the purpose of this forum is to share information among us and help each other   
Clearly, the existance of a new microstock site is not a "confidential information" and, as far as I know, applications are open to everybody. Then, it's their business to decide what is worth to be accepted.

What do you think?

You've misread what I've said, I am referring to the forum on Yaymicro being kept at a professional level not this forum.

I think a place like here is ideal for anybody to ask questions no matter what level of contributor you are, however what sort of impression do you think a potential buyer will get if they look into the forum at LO, it's a joke and makes the site look low class.

There's good reasons why SS, iS and a lot of traditional sites are as succesful as they are, it's because they keep the 'coffee morning' chat private from the buyers, iS go about it in a different way than the others but it works and buyers get the impression of professionalism.

I wonder if they will get 200,000 images without paying us?  There needs to be some incentive for me to upload my portfolio.

To me, it's much more important that they use the money to develop and market their site. I'm uploading my portfolio now. It's very fast, very smooth and review-times can be measured in seconds at the moment.

Compare that to a few other recent startups...

But obviously, only time will show. On the other hand, if nobody upload their best photos, we'll never know the potential.

Hugo, pm me please when you get a referral code.

Linda posted on the YAY forum yesterday that it will be next week. A bummer for me since I'm flying from sunday morning till tuesday afternoon with long waits in London, one of the Gulf States, Bangkok and Taipei. I finally got WIFI but not sure how "free" WIFI is on exotic airports.

Incidentally, I made a lot of good selling stock during waits at airports In my top 16 at the moment on SS, there are 4 shots made on airports last December. It fights the boredom too.

Quote from: diego_cervo on March 25, 2008, 12:29

Sorry but I believe that the purpose of this forum is to share information among us and help each other   

Perhaps I was unclear in this. I just wanted to wait till they have a referral program in place. It's easy money and it benefits us all. I never join a new site any more without a referral code of some members here.

When I started uploading in the very beginning, there were glitches in the FTP (non UTF-8 in the filenames) and the IPTC import (they imported the wrong field as title) and we managed to iron them all out in the forum recently. I had to copypaste all the titles of the first 200 uploaded, and their programmer had to tweak my FTP file names manually.

Just wanted to avoid a lot of lost time for contributors here. All works fine now. It's nothing personal at all Diego, at the contrary. For more than a year, you are 1 of my fav photogs on DT ;-)

No problem, FlamishDreams. I understand your point and your concerns about the referral program....

wow I just had a look diego's portfolio, for those who haven't it really is good

I just so love this image - http://dreamstime.com/healthcare-image4632793

Phil

thank you so much, Phil....

I signed up because they seem interested in editorial shots, which most of the sites I'm on don't seem to deal in.  I have concert pix and NYC (outdoor) event shots that I'd like to get out there more. Now I just have to get organized... smiles - Ann

I like the look and feel of this site. Very clean and the upload is easy and fast.
They used on of my images for there banners.


 

Mine can be found in my signature  SY

they said june

What I love about YayMicro is that they accept DVD submissions.
With a portfolio of over a thousand pics and bandwidth at ridiculous prices in South Africa, it becomes * expensive for me to join a new site and get all my images online. Way cheaper through the post.

I do like their upload process. Uploaded a couple to test the process. Real easy. And after my DVD has been submitted and they start making me money, I'll be a regular contributor there.

And if somebody feels like spreading the love, here's my referral link:
http://yaymicro.com/register.action?referredBy=nightowlza

Just signed up yesterday. Just wish that the existing sites were this fast not only the new ones!

Yeah, the name surely does sound a bit eccentric, but after all what does "google" mean? Once a company is successful, people get used to most unusual names.

One thing is certain, these guys know how to build a slick and superfast website, with probably the best upload process in the industry. We will see if it remains so smooth as the database grows.

What's more they pay in a real-world currency and the royalty structure is very decent.
Usually I don't contribute to low performing sites or startups, but I decided to give YAY a chance. Let's hope they will be successful in reaching buyers.

I agree 100% with the above.  Yay has a very nice look, it's easy to upload to, they don't bombard you with useless legal crap to check and read and they truly seem to have a very positive attitude.  I could only hope that Yay sores to the top.  I'll say this, if the buyers like them as much as the photogs, it's going to be a winner.  I for one LOVE it so far!

no sales here, but they do have some nice stats

Number of sales: 0
Downloads per image: 0.00
Images with >1 sales: 0
Creative images account for 100% of portfolio
Editorial images account for 0% of portfolio

i like that the have the 'image with >1 sales' statistic.

YAYMicro also added Popular search terms page.

Signed up to Yay. Let's see what kind of fish this is...