Using “nobody” and “anonymous” as keywords at iStockphoto.
Using “nobody” and “anonymous” as keywords at iStockphoto.
With Superbowl XLVI coming up this Sunday, my football related images at iStockphoto have been flying off the shelves. Since the Steelers are out of the game, I’m just cheering for the commercials. Just for fun, here’s some of the images that have sold in the last couple of hours.
Last night was President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address. I thought I’d share with you some of the images that were licensed during that hour long speech from my portfolio at iStockphoto. I don’t know if you can read anything into these images, but maybe you can.
Happy New Year to You! Hope you have gotten off to a rousing start in 2012. I’ve got quite a few location shoots lined up or am working on, so you can look forward to some great new stock imagery in the coming months. However, to get you going, I’ve added some new images for Valentine’s Day 2012, which you can see below. There are some nice bright couple shots with lots of copyspace, some 3d renders, a few backgrounds […]
Here’s a collection of links from the iStockphoto forums, looking back at 2011…
Many times on iStockphoto, a contributor will be concerned that the royalty paid out for a certain size download is incorrect. Since IS sells credits anywhere from $.50 – $1.50, there is a wide range of amounts that could be paid out for any size purchase. You can use the calculator below to see if your royalty payment falls in, or close to, the range mentioned above.
Just in time for the holidays, iStockphoto unveiled their new Facebook E-card application last week. From the announcement thread in the forums: Now Facebook followers can use a selection of images, video and audio to send each other eCards for all kinds of occasions. The app is free and unlimited in use.
It’s December, and that means it’s time for my annual holiday Charity drive. Last Monday was the kickoff, as I blogged about here. How it works, is I take my iStockphoto download numbers for the week, and multiply that by a donation level, this year – $.40 a download – and that goes into a pot to be divided amongst three charities. Well, the iStockphoto numbers have updated, so here is the skinny … (drumroll, please…)
I was hoping to give an update on my sales over the last 3 days from my iStockphoto portfolio, to see how much money the buyers have helped me collect for my charity drive this year. Unfortunately, IS is currently unable to give timely updates to contributors on sales data, so I only have the sales for Monday and Tuesday. Which total to 841 sales. That’s $336 just for the first two days of the week going to the 3 […]
As I mentioned in last week’s blog posting, today is the kickoff of my 3rd annual Holiday Charity Drive. The proceeds from this effort go to three great charities and the amount donated is based on what buyers are licensing from iStockphoto this week!
