hi

you are a photographer and look for an agency, which sells your photos?
with this overview i will show my completely personal experiences with the agencies.
clicking on the particulars links you can announce yourself at the agencies directly.

last update : 07-10-10

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photo agency descending income:

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fotolia


36h / 80%

 

international multilingual photo agency. one of the large 6 of world-wide micro stock agencies, the boss sits in New York, the technicians in Paris and marketing in Berlin. the side is sometimes slowly, for the examination of your own sales of photos there is a good statistics function.
selling pictures starting from 1$, for the photographer at least 33% this days the agancy is bussy with the own relaunch. but you can discuss about in a very frequented forum . fotolia was my first photo agency, which accepted pictures of me - this connects.

 
 
1524 11/05 2118

Shutterstock


24h/ 40%

 

one of the worldwide leader. price for the photoos completely in the cellar, approximately 20 ct remain per down load, bang-hard selection at the beginning by hurdle of 7 from 10 example photos, disburses itself however nevertheless. only for patient recommendable
the photos are sold on a subscription basis, which hum monthly pay and for it all will be downloaden whta realy new comes on ther screen. some of the contributers say, they have allways uoload a few pictures a week, to keep on selling.

after a half of a year i earned mor than 500$, and from this time up i get 0,3 $ fro one download. and it is still running

 
 
782 03/07 2800

panthermedia


100h/ 85%

PantherMedia -  Fotocommunity und Bildagentur für lizenzfreie Fotos

 

the headquarter of the photo agency in grey range of microstock and macro stock is in Bavaria, good and rapid uploaden by ftp, selection process could do sometimes faster, however there is the possibility ti evaluate he photos by the community . in german only
altogether few sales, but one obtains per photo or vectors a higher price per unit. they sell the files depending upon size between 4,9 and 49 euro, the photographer earns 50%

 
 
1536 03/06 63

digitalstock


80h/ 75%

DIGITALstock.de - Bildagentur für lizenzfreie Bilder und Photos  

a respectablly working, unspektakuläre photo agency, the hompeage of the microstock agency has an old Design and somewhat pedantic attitude process for uploading the photos, the statistics ejects all possible data, but which photos well sell remains oneself hidden.
those costs for the photos is 4,9; 9,9 and 14.99 euro, of the photographer select. ingerman only

 
 
965 03/06 106

shotshop


100h/ 25%

 

 

the photo agency with the most dangerous design sets on quality and lies with the uniform price of 30 euro in the centre zone of the agencies. the process of keywording is the same as a large interantionale professional agency has, therefore somewhat pedantically.
the agency exists now for one year, the sales are slowly raising, in german only

 
 
551 05/06 23

dreamstime


100h/ 65%

Royalty Free Images  

international US agency, terribly with the model relaeases, support and forum in English, better to range for tipps and cheat the stock photography.
due to the good statistics I know that there are 453 stock photographer inside, with begin with an "f" and 434 artists have more pictures uploaded than I. good to know :-)

 
 
07/06

bildmaschine


18h/ 90%

 

i´m not sure what to tell. the German photo agency "picture machine" is difficulty, I have there few sales, but these to normal agency-conditions I imagine the agency is interesting for t press pictures and for those, they want make there self marketing, the goal is by the sensationally simple upload process it makes however none strives the pictures to adjust.for a few euros a month you can make your own photo agancy. with german and english keywords

 
 
1365 04/06 4

123rf


12h/ 80%

Buy Stock Photos for $1

 

 

easy to upload, easy to manage, and , the best system around the model realeses, conversions continuously but moderately. good cost/value ratio

 
 
940 11/06 290

bigstockphoto


70h / 70%

Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Photography, Photo Search

 

 

a large US photo agency, relative simply upload process, average selection of the photos, more continuously but moderate proceeds for the adjusted pictures. for the most photos i sell, i get 1$ . an advantage microstock agency is that assets are paid off starting from 30 US $

 
 
741 06/06 129

stockxpert


2h/ 80%

visti stockxpert

 

  a complicated hungarian agency, with easy uploading and rapidly selection, one selects within minutes. picture sales however less  
 
223 09/06 97

whitelife


0h/ 100%

 

 

a small fine Swiss picture agency, ehere you can upload all your pictues without selection, they sell the pictures on swiss level, but very seldom. german only

 
 
1275 01/06 3

bildunion


72h/ 60%

 

German agency with simple upload process and with an english site also. conversion rather moderately

 
 
552 05/06 11

Scanstockphoto


56h/ 90%

  simple Swedish photo agency. you get per photo 1 euro, upload only in the html batch up to 15 photos, but who has time, a few euro per month for you  
 
1320 11/06 42

luckyoliver


56h/ 90%

stock photos, royalty free stock photography, photo search

 

 

funny American microstock photo agency, who does not keep in track, is shot: -) mostly they post photos funny and nice comments of the selection. i give a chance to the agency, as they give nearly each photo a chance more simply upload mechanism.

 
 
909 11/06 43

photocase


56h/ 10%

http://photocase.com/de/

 

 

special agency for photos, those otherwise nobody wants. auxiliary bonus: for each photo, which is taken, you can down-load 5 other pictures. therefore everybody has a lot of downloads.
for those few photos, that surrvive selection mechanism you get good money. with photos those elsewhere well run, you don`t need at to try here, crazy picture faraway stock photo mainstream.
with german and english keywords

 
 
7 10/06 49

canstock


80h/ 70%

Stock Photography;

 

 

somewhat brittle photo agency of canada. depending on how many photos were accepted by them, you can upload new pictures on a daily. famous invention: a function with automatically catagoriiy so it simple to join in order to make a few dollar in the month

 
 
498 11/06 39

crestock


56h/ 10%

 

 

a strictly selection of the photos, spends bad cost/ value relationship, but a good training for good or bad stock photo. each day the worst submitted picutre wil be commanded. fortunately still none of mine : -)

portfolio
 
172 11/06 26

pitopia


96h/ 80%

 

 

nice German agency, they don´t want foreigners because of the vomplicated bank transfer however they select exactly fair, the price lies in the centre zone and sounds promising

 

 
778 11/06 1

Us photostock


96h/ 90%

 

  photos can uploaded only with HTTP batch , takes nearly everything, however nearly nothing sells portfolio
 
902 11/06 19

fotomedia


96h/ 90%

 

  agency from the high north. that arranged simple rather small conversions

 

 
1107 09/06 10

featurepics


56h/ 90%

 

very simply upload process, price free selectable by the photographer, only those conversions are missing still to be satisfied with the ageny there are however auxiliary features to perfect your work

 

 
1026 11/06 9

istock


72h/ 20%

View My Portfolio;

 

 

istockphoto is the largest photo agency within microstock agencies, there is an strictly limit of weekly upload (on this days it raising up to 25 files a week), which makes it difficult to construct a large portfolio. a very good photoagency for people with internatioal useful photos and patience, which can get richly. but i think only for those they sell their photos exclusively with istockphoto.

 

 

 
45 03/07 8

microstockphoto


72h/ 90%

 

 

still the best under the countless agencies, those use the cheap software, herefore also a few small sells, fot me 3$ and 50 ct in six month.

 

 
665 11/06 7
zoonar

NEU
10h/ 80%
Zoonar   recent agency with community , time will see whether the concept will start, offer a relatively free price structuring and up to 80% of the conversion.  
 
662 02/07 2

gimmestock


80h/ 90%

 

 

ein neuer komplizierter modus zum raufladen, 0,5 euro umsatz in 5 monaten, ist irgendwie noch nicht fertig die seite, schaut aber schön aus....

a new complicated mode to upload, 0.5 euro conversion in 5 months, the site is not finished yet , however it looks beautifully….

 
 
540 03/07 1

albumo

NEU
10h/ 95%

Albumo.com

 

 

brand-new micro stock photo agency, they lets them cost itself to get a grat portfolio, sounds promising, the credits you get for a picture will rise with the conversion. as an entrance bonus they gives you for 250 photos 25$, and an bonus of 10ct for all pictueres more than 1000. fine

 
 
1186 06/07 0

 

 

 

 

 
 
     

geckostock

NEU
80h/ 90%

Geckostock  

the people of raw stock images have thought, they try it with a new name and new design again. but there are still no sales, but many mails from them explaining what they do

somehow agitating.

 
 
966 02/07 0
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number of sales and selling price on the average:

microstock with approximately one dollar

5 bis 20 $

30 $ and more a picture

 

once again completely clearly: those are my completely own experiences and my completely personal opinion not to prove by nothing. but however purely subjectively by me


make your own experiences.

fritz

 

 

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my income from the different agencies (july 07) in euro

 

a diagram of my pictures they are accepted by the different agencies and the income in euro : (sequence resembles as above) (june 07)

thanks for feedback, and sorry about my english....k foto.fritz mail an: fritz

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