Tag Archives: information

Upload Speeds for 47 Microstock Agencies

By bobbigmac | Published: April 26, 2012
[Translate] I’ve been putting together a dataset to estimate wait times in the picWorkflow upload queues, and pulled out some data about the rates of agency’s FTP server receiving speeds. As expected, the agencies who accept footage have much faster connections than those who don’t, though a shameful showing from the networks of some of [...]
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Spring Cleaning my Microstock Portfolio

By bobbigmac | Published: December 6, 2011
[Translate] It’s been almost 2 years since I last uploaded new images for stock, and in that time there have been a few agencies emerge where I see real opportunities for new sales and a better reach. Though I’d love to get back to shooting/illustrating more, I know it’s just not feasible at the moment [...]
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Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning

By bobbigmac | Published: October 28, 2011
[Translate] I received a couple of questions today from a potential picWorkflow photo keywording customer, and I figured since I’ve been seeing similar questions coming in from search engines, that I’d post the question and my response here for anyone else who may be interested in the keywording or photo captioning service to see too. [...]
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Understanding Microstock in a Mature Industry

By bobbigmac | Published: October 21, 2011
[Translate] Everyone lately seems to be talking about dropping RPIs and the increased efforts to be a successful microstock photographer. Well I recently put together this presentation for StockInRussia microstock conference (It was a fantastic event, if you weren’t there, you really missed out), so I thought I’d screencast it (ended up with a full [...]
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picWorkflow gets image stats, free distribution and more…

By bobbigmac | Published: September 8, 2011
[Translate] The first phase of picWorkflow’s stats tools are now live on the site. There’s more to come, but already the stats tools can be used to improve your portfolio metadata, to distribute your images to more agencies, and to find out where your images may have problems and how to solve them. Agency Distribution [...]
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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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TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer’s Searches – THE List

By bobbigmac | Published: February 23, 2011
[Translate] I’m finally getting a decent dataset together to answer the burning question: What are stock photo buyers searching for? Here are THE top 1000 searches made by stock photography buyers over the last 6 months to 2 years. This data, and whatever else I can gleam from the various datasets I have (around half [...]
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Stock Photos & Technology with Shutterstock’s Jon Oringer

By bobbigmac | Published: February 10, 2011
[Translate] Shutterstock is a leading provider of stock photos, illustrations, and footage, with a collection of 12 million crowdsourced images. Shutterstock specializes in subscription products and pioneered the model of stock photography on subscription. Answering questions on technology in stock photography and the future of the industry is Shutterstock’s CEO Jon Oringer: You’ve made some [...]
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Online Marketing & The Future of Microstock with Yay Micro

By bobbigmac | Published: January 10, 2011
[Translate] YayMicro.com is an online marketplace where photographers around the world can sell their images directly to customers. YAY offer over 1 million Royalty Free images and illustrations, prices start at $1.50. The site is available in English, Chinese, Spanish, Dutch and Norwegian. Japanese, German, French, Danish and Swedish are available as search languages. YAY [...]
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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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