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Buyers guide to microstock
Corepics is represented by the following agents, where you can buy our high resolution stock photos. The agents below are listed in random order.
Dreamstime
Featurepics
Fotolia
Crestock
iStockphoto
123RF
Stockxpert
Bigstockphoto
Shutterstock
If you do not have an account with these agencies , then please register for a free account using the links to the agent that appeals most to you. Our agents will [...]
Shutterstock Jackpot
Nothing to brag about, and with only the 10 initial images approved in our portfolio, it is not so much of a surprise. Nevertheless, it is a nice sight seeing a Shutterstock Jackpot (a hattrick for British citizen) on our first day with images online anyway.
Stocksite Analysis: Crestock 2008
At first glance, Crestock seems to be a very high quality and aspiring stock site, with a potential to shake the foundations of the establishment and an appealing website with many features.
That is looking at Crestock at first glance only. Behind their shiny surface, its an entirely different ball-game. According to their own statement, Crestock [...]
Stocksite Analysis: Bigstockphoto 2008
Bigstockphoto is a mid sized microstock agency. Although the site’s look and feel is not as elaborate, unique and cutting edge as the competition’s sites do (Rather amateurish and standard, actually), the basic foundation and performance seems stable enough to ensure a stable, yet rather low, revenues, with a steady, equally slow paced growth.
For new [...]
Stocksite Analysis: 123RF 2008
123RF is a realatively small stock agency. Sales are pretty stable, but low. Although 123RF pursues different and rather innovative ways to expand their customer base, no real evidence of their effectiveness will be witnessed with small portfolio sizes.
123RF is a friendly, in principle rather open stock agent, with a potential which doesn’t seem to [...]
Stocksite Analysis: Stockxpert 2008
Stockxpert outperforms expectations. After the site was acquired by Jupiter Images, and some – in hindsight – rather prosperous joint ventures, image sales through Stockxpert are flourishing.
Although the base subscription revenues of $0,30 (regardless of the image size) are on the low side, the number of sales experiences a steady growth. Regular sales through Stockexpert [...]
Stocksite Analysis: Fotolia 2008
Fotolia is a tough cookie to crack. For top contributors, it ranks amongst the top tier. For newbies, Fotolia is a struggle. Although revenues increase with number of downloads and portfolio size, resulting in a higher rank on the site, the apparent dislike of critisism of the company’s moderators, as well as the specific type [...]
Stocksite Analysis: iStockphoto 2008
iStockphoto, owned by Getty images, is the undisputed market leader in Royalty Free photography. The brand promotes itself through heavy and effective marketing, and is without doubt the most professional Royalty free photo stock site.
Despite their position as market leader, the site’s performance for non-exclusive contributors with a relatively small portfolio stays behind in growth [...]
Stocksite Analysis: Dreamstime 2008
Dreamstime is one of the bigger Royalty Free stock sites around. The US-Romanian company is extremely active in generating new leads and joining forces with other online initiatives, which shows in a steady growth in both number of sales as well as total monthly income for contributors. The Admin and moderators make themselves known, and [...]
Stocksite Analysis: Shutterstock 2008
Shutterstock is the largest subscription site for royalty free images around. Shutterstock is typically a high volume site – sales wise – with only a few pennies for the photographer. Due to the high volume sales, the total revenue from Shutterstock rates amongst the highest in royalty free sites.
Shutterstock remains one of the sites without [...]
Definition of Stock photography
The definition of stock photography, as found on wikipedia
Stock photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill the needs of their creative assignments.
A customer who uses stock photography instead of hiring a photographer can save time and money, but [...]