OK, I have about 96 or so pics up on Shutterstock. I feel my pictures are pretty good. But I rarely make much money. This month I've averaged around 50 cents a day. Is this normal for this amount of pics? Or is it that they're mostly nature pics, ie. not commercial/business focused?
The images are all pretty good. The biggest sellers tend to be things that are related to technology, business, and medicine. Stock photo places have millions of pictures of trees and flowers and various things like that, but not nearly as many pictures of things related to business etc.
People shots are popular.Unfortunately I don't have any. I make about 60 cents to 70 cents a day with about 140 pictures. Couple $20 sales for single photos. Basically the same photos that I have submitted with my 3 megapixel camera.
Basically paid for my dSLR with the money earned from 10 micro stock agencies that I have made sales at.
You you look at some of the current UK computer magazines; Shutterstock is advertising a lot, so sales so be good. Plus a couple write ups in some photography magazines (good press).
Yup I would say with the number of pics you have there .50 cents a day is just about right. A majority of microstock sellers do not do any better and most much lower sales. Only a few make any money and then you have to have hundreds or thousands of pics on line. Figure the time to take each one and the processing time, my guess less than 1% really pay for the expenses. Best of luck.
Don't forget it's summer in the U.S. I think it makes a big difference. With the same images last year I made less then $5.00 last July and made that much in 1 week this year.
Slows down during weekends and holidays too. Sometimes no sale days.
I know the keywords are "key" (sorry, couldn't resist). I feel like I did pretty good.
Here's the thing though, I had over 30 dollars in sales last month. But I did upload one big batch of almost 60 photos, so I think they were appearing in searches more often due to the recent upload time. As soon as July hit, whammo. Nothing.
Question though. If I take my picture off Shutterstock, am I able to put those on Alamy, since they've already been sold?
I know the keywords are "key" (sorry, couldn't resist). I feel like I did pretty good.
Here's the thing though, I had over 30 dollars in sales last month. But I did upload one big batch of almost 60 photos, so I think they were appearing in searches more often due to the recent upload time. As soon as July hit, whammo. Nothing.
Question though. If I take my picture off Shutterstock, am I able to put those on Alamy, since they've already been sold?
Thanks.
I don't think a customer at Alamy will be happy finding out that they just spend big bucks for an image someone spend a dollar on a month ago.
OMG, thank you for the ideas... off to buy schol supplies :-)
This might be the first stock photo I ever shot, right after I signed up for Shutterstock -- took it in my office at work. Had a download just the other day ... : )
I don't think a customer at Alamy will be happy finding out that they just spend big bucks for an image someone spend a dollar on a month ago. [/quote]
As true as that is, I'm not that happy just getting 25 cents a download.
I feel that if a customer is buying off Alamy, it's for a reason. Otherwise, why aren't they searching Shutterstock.
Anyways, does anyone actually know the rules regarding this. I imagine RF on Alamy is the same as RF at Shutterstock. If it's Licensed though, does that mean it has to be exclusive to Alamy?
Anyways, does anyone actually know the rules regarding this. I imagine RF on Alamy is the same as RF at Shutterstock. If it's Licensed though, does that mean it has to be exclusive to Alamy?
There's no rule against having the same RF image at both. It has the potential to piss people off but you can do it.
There is also no exclusivity requirement for licensed images. For non-exclusive images, L images, you can sell them anywhere because the user is paying a one time fee based on their non-exclusive usage. For exclusive images, RP images, the user is paying for exclusivity in one or more of time, market, or region. You can still sell the image elsewhere but you can't sell it in a way that infringes the rights you've sold. Alamy gives you a rights control section where you can go and change the available rights to reflect what's been sold on other sites.
So, as long as you're on top of the sales and don't allow any that infringe on each other you can sell anywhere you want.
