Tag Archives: agencies

Welcome to 2012 – picNiche State of the Union

By bobbigmac | Published: December 31, 2011
[Translate] Here we are heading into 2012, and with picNiche heading for 4 full years it’s looking like an exciting one to come To mark the new year, I figured it would be a good time to talk a bit about what makes up the entire suite of ‘picNiche’ now, to brag a bit about [...]
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Caption and Keyword your Microstock Images from 20 cents

By bobbigmac | Published: October 6, 2011
[Translate] Do you hate taking the time to fill out your title and description fields for microstock submissions??? I know I do! I’m delighted to announce that you can now have your photo and illustration title and description fields expertly filled out on picWorkflow for just 20 US cents! All titles and descriptions are validated [...]
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Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2011
[Translate] I started writing this blog post after following up on Dreamstime’s excellent new DMCA-violation reporting tool they added to their system. I went and read the DMCA and followed up by reading various interpretations of the clauses within it, and subsequently drafted this post and sent out to every microstock agency I have a [...]
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Where do Independent Microstockers Submit?

By bobbigmac | Published: June 30, 2011
[Translate] Just a quick post today to take a look at some stats from picWorkflow on which Microstock agencies are commonly used (and in what proportion) by microstock photographers. (using Google Docs interactive charts so if the spaces below are blank, wait a few seconds and refresh) First up… the share of all picWorkflow accounts [...]
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Keywording API for Organisations & Resellers

By bobbigmac | Published: February 16, 2011
[Translate] As we all know… for stock images, better keywords means more sales. Images can be indexed by the search engines, found and licensed by more image-buyers and so will generate higher RPIs and earn more money. To increase the quality of keywords applied to stock photographs and illustrations already available for sale on microstock [...]
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Promote your Microstock Portfolio with picWorkflow Widgets

By bobbigmac | Published: February 1, 2011
[Translate] The first set of portfolio promotion tools for picWorkflow members has just been launched. You can now easily create your own customisable ajax widgets for your blog (wordpress, blogger, typepad, etc etc all supported) or any other website. The picWorkflow widgets are designed to attract visitors on your website to your images and to [...]
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Pixmac offers a ‘New Deal’ for Microstock Photographers

By bobbigmac | Published: January 3, 2011
[Translate] After a pretty dismal showing from most microstock agencies during 2010, today the relative newcomer Pixmac has revised its contributor aggreement significantly. It’s built up a best-of-all-worlds policy which will really help them stand out from the crowd of relatively new agencies in the long term, and makes guarantees to photographers which I’m hoping [...]
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The Big Guide to Improve Microstock Workflow

By bobbigmac | Published: October 31, 2010
[Translate] A few times a week I receive questions from microstock photographers who have discovered the picNiche toolbar, wondering about how they can make the whole microstock process better. As an experienced computer user (and coder) there are a lot of things I often take for granted about ‘the microstock workflow’, which others sometimes miss [...]
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Shafted by latest iStock changes? What Now?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 9, 2010
[Translate] The latest round of changes at iStock represent a loss for most contributors there. Both for Exclusive and Non-Exclusive contributors. The new royalty figures for next year show a clear bias in favour of those contributors who are making the most money for iStock, with cuts for people with smaller or non-exclusive portfolios. These [...]
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Microstock agencies: Help me to help you!

By bobbigmac | Published: January 20, 2010
[Translate] As development progresses for the picNiche contributor toolbar, which reads basic earnings/portfolio data from the various microstock agencies, I face a dilemma, and I need your help to resolve it I regularly receive requests to retrieve more information from the microstock agency websites, the most common are for data to generate detailed RPI (return [...]
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