about 1 year ago - 2 comments
I was lucky enough to meet many wonderful microstock people at CEPIC event in Dublin last summer. Vita Valka, the CEO of Pixmac is one of them.
Pixmac is a newcomer, operated from Prague, Czech Republic since mid-2008. I like these guys because their understanding of the microstock market differs from the traditional “it’s all [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
New free microstock contributors’ service LightBurner keeps adding new functionality. In this post I review some new free microstock portfolio analysis tools available with any LightBurner account. These new tools for a contributing stock photographer are designed to optimize a stock photography portfolio and help to sell more stock photos through multiple microstock agencies.
Discussed a few SEO practices each microstock photographer should know and follow.
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Come and try our new FREE microstock submission service LightBurner.com! Save traffic, costs and time uploading once to all! Easy submissions to all top microstocks, sales tracking, easy multilingual keywording and more. Try it now!
about 1 year ago - No comments
Swiss right wing party Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP) misused images licensed from iStockphoto in their poster. Microstock models are displayed here as criminals. iStock licensing agreement is mumbling when it goes to deal with such a case. iStockphoto Licensing Agreement is not protective and restrictive enough when the use of microstock photography should be strictly prohibited. According to CEPIC, “Sven Ole Schubert, iStock spokesman, announced intentions to approach the organizers after having finished examinations”
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
New ProStockMaster v1.9.4/1.9.3 fixes thumbnails displaying for Windows operating system
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Shannon Fagan, a well known digital artist and a stock photography guru is now a part of ASMP initiative.
I believe that ASMP is very lucky having Mr. Fagan on board. A gifted artist, a technology enthusiast and a new media adept, Shannon brings to ASMP his experise in stock photography and online media worlds. [...]
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Selling stock images? Want to sell more and faster? Great!
So here is your choice:
Get free ProStockMaster software (Mac & Win), which will find you the relevant keywords, offers on-the-fly keywords translation, and inserts the keywords directly into your JPEG files, all this free of charge. Add here free distribution of stock imagery to 9 microstock and stock photography agencies.
OR
Buy a $249 piece of software which do the keywording only.
The choice is yours.
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Interesting news directly from DevianART press person: Fotolia and DeviantART join forces.
Angelo Sotira, CEO of deviantART describes his decision
Mr. Sotira’ main drivers:
A large percentage of members of deviantART use stock, make commercial stock, or make free stock available to the community; sometimes all three. deviantART needs to focus that intelligence to birth the ideal [...]
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
iSyndica, an online microstock distribution service, recently announced it’s closure. ProStockMaster provides a free alternative to iSyndica for the microstock photographers and videographers
about 1 year ago - No comments
What the classical economy says?
If you have an over-supply and a constant demand you have to limit your supply adjusting it to the demand.
A microstock agency can do it in two ways:
1) carefully select only best images
2) reduce the suppliers’ commissions, allowing many contributors to leave and thus reducing the supply stream. It also [...]