deviantART and Fotolia partner new Stock Project
Filed under: Buy Stock Photos, Microstock News, Sell Your Photos
From http://stockproject.fotolia.com: “Welcome to the deviantART Stock Project on Fotolia. As we build out and develop a fully integrated commercial stock offering on deviantART, Fotolia is providing deviants with immediate access to a huge catalog of commercial stock under standard licenses with transparent terms and at great prices.” It seems deviantART is widening to include […]
moodboard is dropping its microstock collection
If you were thinking about selling microstock through moodboard, you are too late. Moodboard states HERE that they will no longer be accepting microstock content. From moodboard’s website: “moodboard will be suspending all uploads to its microstock collection from 15th October 2010 (15/10/2010) to focus our efforts on our Premium content collections. All contributor images […]
Fotomind.com will be closing on 15th April 2010
I just received this email: What happens on 15th April? All your photos and personal information will be permanently removed from our servers. I still have unused image credits… You’ll need to use all your remaining credits before 15th April, otherwise you will lose them. What happens to the images I’ve purchased? They will be […]
ThePhotoStorage.com is Closing
Well, another one is closing this year. Here is the email I received: Dear Member: We regret to inform you that as of 21 March 2010, www.thephotostorage.com will no longer continue operating as a stock photography agency. On or before 21 March 2010 all files and accounts will be removed from our servers. We thank […]
Microstock Photography Now Has It’s Own Forum
Ok, we added a forum. We get a lot of questions sent in and decided it would be best to start a community forum to allow visitors to post questions and get advise from us and others in the microstock industry. Click on Microstock Forum in the navigation bar to get started. Please read the […]
Shutterstock Reaches 10 Million Photos
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Shutterstock, the world’s largest stock subscription site, has reached 10 million stock photos online for sale. When I checked the site today, it read: 10,004,906 royalty-free stock photos 104,906 new stock photos added this week 215,103 photographers Wow, that’s a lot of images and an awesome selection for photo buyers. Are your photos in their […]
StockXpert is Closing
It’s very sad to announce that StockXpert is closing this month. Getty Images, who owns StockXpert now after the Jupiterimages purchase, has decided to shut the site down. Getty is directing StockXpert buyers to iStockPhoto. This is good for Getty, but what about StockXpert’s artists? I am more of a Shutterstock or Dreamstime fan myself. […]
Getty Images introduces ThinkStockPhotos.com
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Getty Images recently announced a new stock photo site offering images by subscription. Many believe ThinkStockPhotos.com was created to compete with the market leading subscription site Shutterstock. Although image buyers may like the new subscription site and price range, it seems many contributors are not so happy. With the opening of ThinkStockPhotos.com comes the closing […]
DepositPhotos now has an affiliate program
Just a quick post to let everyone know about the new affiliate program at DepositPhotos. Along with the new ability to get referral income, they also PAY YOU to upload your files. If you have not already checked them out, register with the site and upload your test images. Once you are approved, you can […]