DepositPhotos
Deposit Photos opened to the public in 2009 and is growing quickly. Time will tell if they will carve a piece of the Microstock market. Their photographer compensation and affiliate program are on par with other agencies. They have a custom “Buy by SMS” option to order photos over your mobile phone.
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Dreamstime continues to be one of the best agencies availible for both photographers and designers. Their massive colleciton is approaching 10million images, but do to a progressive pricing of images, seem to still sell new images well. Dreamstime’s system of image pricing makes images with fewer downloads cheaper to designers. This means if you have old and successfull images, they can...
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Agency Link - Seller: submit.Shutterstock.com - Buyer: www.Shutterstock.com Founded: July 02, 2003 Images: 25,000,000 Shutterstock is one of the first Microstock Image agecies. Unlike iStockphoto, they rely mainly on a subscription model where a customer pays a large amount, but downloads almost unlimited photos. Shutterstock continues to be one of the easiest agencies to submit images...
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Agency Link: www.Fotolia.com Images: 22,000,000 Referral Program: Yes Free Images: Yes Updated: April 2013 As one of the first truly global agencies, Fotolia boost a massive image set. Having recently crossed 4 million images, one sometimes wonders how to shoot something new. Fotolia offers the best referral program availible as of this...
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Agency Link: istockphoto.com Total Files: 15,000,000 Video: Yes Audio: Yes Photos: Yes iStockPhoto is what started the Microstock Industry. It was originally an ‘indie’ site start by Bruce Livingstone and was later purchased by Getty Images. Today it has become an icon of big business in the microstock industry and lost much of it’s community feeling other smaller sites still...
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