Category: Photography

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URL: www.elance.com
Industry: Freelance Agency
What they are looking for: Freelancers, each contract has specific requirements
Pay: contract
Alexa rating: 806

Elance is a freelance mecca. It is a website used by freelancers and companies looking to hire freelancers for jobs. Elance is a great place for writers and photographers to find work. It is also a place where many [...]

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URL: www.123rf.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What they are looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos and Royalty Free Illustrations
Pay: Commission
Alexa Rating: 3,163

123rf is a micostock agency. They currently feature 4.5 million photos and illustrations for download. 123rf is a great company to upload to. Their upload tool is very different when compared to most other microstock agencies. You [...]

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URL: www.imagecatalog.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos and Royalty Free Illustrations
Pay: Commission
Alexa rating: 429,553

Image Catalog is a small microstock agency. They have a great interface that looks very much like the interface used by microstock giant Dreamstime. [...]

URL: www.canstockphoto.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations, and Royalty Free Footage
Pay: Commission
Alexa rating: 33,919

CanStockPhoto, recently purchased by the tradition stock agency Fotosearch, was the first microstock website I ever submitted to. CanStockPhoto has a quick and easy upload process [...]

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URL: www.istock.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What they are looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations, and Royalty Free Footage, Royalty Free Audio
Pay: Commission
Alexa Rating: 370

iStock is the microstock industry leader. Some people make a living by only selling photographs on iStock. iStock also offer a large range [...]

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URL: www.fotolia.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations, and Royalty Free Footage
Pay: Commission
Alexa rating: 787

Fotolia is one of the big six microstock companies. They sell a huge amount of content. Fotolia has some pretty serious issues in my opinion. [...]

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URL: http://submit.shutterstock.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Editorial Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations and Royalty Free Video Footage
Pay: Commission
Alexa rating: 1,306

Shutterstock is one of the top microstock websites you can submit to. The majority of the money that you’ll make with Shutterstock [...]

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URL: http://www.redgage.com
Industry: Online Publishing
What they are looking for: Non-fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography, and Video
Pay: Pay-Per-Click
Alexa rating: 55,750
Red Gage is one of my favourite online publishing sites. I don’t make a lot of money from Red Gage but they have a very sleek site with a very active community. Like Triond or Buskisa, Red Gage is [...]

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URL: http://www.dreamstime.com
Industry: Microstock Agency
What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock photos, Editorial Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations
Pay: Commission
Alexa rating: 976

I would suggest, to anyone who wants to get into the microstock game, to start with Shutterstock, Fotolia, StockXpert and Dreamstime. Dreamstime, in my opinion, is the most important of this group. There are a [...]