Category: – Microstock

When I first noticed the StockFresh ad in the right column of my facebook I was intrigued and when I read that StockFresh was from the creator of StockXpert I got excited! StockXpert was my favourite microstock agency for quite some time. Then iStock bought it and let it sit stagnant for what felt like [...]

Getty owned microstock agency, iStock, has announced some pretty harsh changes today. The full details can be found on the iStock forums but I will give a quick rundown here. iStock currently uses a tier system to give their more successful contributors raises. A contributor starts at zero downloads. Each time a file is downloaded [...]

Details: 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 [...]

Update: Image Catalog has closed Details: 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. Image Catalog [...]

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 with ftp access. [...]

Details: 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 of products, [...]

Details: 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. They have multiple [...]

Details: 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 is by [...]

Details: 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 [...]