If you’re a Stocksy contributor and a newbie to video (and using Windows), this might help you prep your content for submission.
As an “independent contributor”, I am constantly looking for opportunities to expand my distribution of stock images. This week, I’ve decided to take a look at Dreamstime, and I found that while support is helpful, the uploading process is quite painful. So, I’ve written a greasemonkey script to help the process along.
This is great news. Stocksy United has unveiled an innovation that makes life easier for buyers who license RF images, but end up with changing needs. It’s the new “Upgrade Image” feature, and as far as I know, it’s exclusive to Stocksy.
Recent events at iStockphoto and Getty Images have put iStock exclusive and non-exclusive contributors in a bind. They are tied, financially, to a company that they no longer wish to support. I’ve had some emails in my inbox with questions about the world outside of iStockphoto (for contributors). Let’s look at some things to keep in mind when you’ve had enough.
It’s an exciting time for contributing photographers at Stocksy United, the new co-op stock image agency. Lots of positive news coming from the press, like the announcement that Stocksy projects to be profitable in Mid-November. An amazing feat, considering it just opened in March! Also all the articles about why the agency was founded and it’s paradigm. Reasons like disappointment in how other businesses were operating, and a challenge to bring a positive vibe back to stock photography. However, behind […]
Over at iStock – the new name iStockphoto’s parent Getty Images has put upon it – each month contributors chime in to a thread to report how sales have been going. Years ago, the monthly thread was exciting. It was great to see the boats rising with the tide. We all reported “BME”s to each other (best month ever). It seemed buyers were happy buying and contributors were happy selling. However, the last few years, and even more so this […]
When you license imagery for design use, do you do an in-depth read of the license terms and restrictions? Did you realize most Royalty Free agreements restrict the buyer to keeping the content available at one location only? This is known as “single seat” licensing. The content can be moved from one designer to another, but it is not supposed to be on a network, or otherwise available to multiple people at the same time. The “Multi-Seat Extended License” solves […]
Good Monday morning to you! Let’s talk licensing today. As I’ve discussed before, when you go to a stock photo agency and make a purchase, what you are really doing is buying a set of rights to use the image you’re interested in. The image data is part of the package, sure, but the rights you purchase are what let you use the content without getting into trouble with the copyright holder. So make sure you are purchasing the rights […]
To anyone concerned, or interested, my portfolio will continue to be licensed on iStockphoto for a couple more weeks, due to a technical issue. That’s fine, because the extra income will help in the upcoming dry spell when it is no longer there. Thanks.
Eyeballs are what makes the world go around. Specifically, the more eyeballs you can get onto your work, the better chance you have of selling that work, especially when it comes to stock content, like the kind I have in my iStockphoto.com portfolio. So, for the last several months I’ve been working on a new style portfolio display site. It’s meant to give you, the buyer, an alternate method of looking through my work, and then purchasing said work. For […]
