Tag: microstock

Fall is in full swing around my home and winter is coming fast. My wife and I are getting ready to move on December 1st. Yes, I know moving in winter is not the most practical thing to do but we promised ourselves we would move back to British Columbia as soon as we could. [...]

Well, September has been a burn out kind of month for me. With my wife’s birthday, our second wedding anniversary and our day job picking up again, there was more to do than I could handle. I wrote very little, in fact I wrote nothing for Bright Hub which was not what I wanted for [...]

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 [...]

It’s now past the mid-month mark, and I thought I would give another update. I won’t talk earnings until the end of the month, but I can give some word counts and let you know what I’m up to. I’ve spent most of my time writing for this blog and Bright Hub, but I’ve also [...]

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 [...]

I had to post and say how happy I am with the way this month is going so far. In the past two days I’ve produced just over three thousand words. Three thousand words equated to one blog post, two articles for Bright Hub that I will be uploading in a couple of days, and [...]

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, [...]