Top 10 Best Places To Sell Stock Photography.
1.Alamy
Alamy is a British privately owned stock photography agency launched in September 1999. Its headquarters are in Milton Park, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. It has a development and operations centre at Techno park in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and a sales office in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
2. Fotolia and Adobe Stock
Fotolia is now part of Adobe Stock, which sells images directly to Creative Cloud users. This is important. Users of popular programs like Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator can buy images directly from their design program, which will theoretically place your image in front of more people than just the website alone.
Photographers earn 33% of each sale through both Fotolia and Adobe Stock. For images downloaded from a subscription plan, the minimum guaranteed payment depends on the photographer’s rank. To sell here, you must be 18 or older with a confirmed Fotolia account.
3.Getty Images
Getty Images is a well-known platform that offers both stock photos as well as editorial images of current events and celebrities. Photos with Getty are either royalty-free or rights managed. Microstock, which allows users to use the image as many times as they’d like once downloaded, isn’t on Getty, which is good for photographers.
While highly reputable, Getty Images is hard to break into. They no longer have a way for you to submit images, but according to a post on their previous Flickr group, editors look through Flickr to handpick photographers to invite to the platform. For more details, read the announcement
Getty Images, Inc. is a British-American visual media company and is a supplier of stock images, editorial photography, video and music for business and consumers, with an archive of over 200 million assets. It targets three markets—creative professionals, the media, and corporate.
Offer your images only with iStock Photo, and you could be looking at royalty rates of up to 45%. Of course, if you don’t want to commit to just one platform, you can still choose to do so and earn a 15% royalty instead.
But perhaps what’s even more lucrative about iStock Photo is that it’s also a community of photographers too. Once you join, you have access to online forums to chat and learn with other artists. Anyone can create an account and access the forums, but to sell with iStock, you’ll also have to pass a quiz and submit samples of your work.
iStock is an online royalty free, international micro stock photography provider based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The firm offers millions of photos, illustrations, clip art, videos and audio tracks. Artists, designers and photographers worldwide contribute their work to iStock collections in return for royalties.
5.Can Stock Photo
Can Stock Photo is both fast and fair. They pay up to 50% on each image downloaded. With funds available for withdrawal to Paypal once reaching $50 and by check once reaching $100. Images on Can Stock Photo are also available for download on Fotosearch, so there’s potential for more exposure.
Signing up is a matter of sending an application and three images. Most photographers receive a response on the same day. You can upload a large number of images at once, and they’re often live on the site quickly.
Can Stock Photo is a stock photography provider which licenses royalty-free images, photos, digital illustrations, picture clip art and footage files on behalf of photographers, illustrators, and videographers. Founded in 2004, it was one of the earliest microstock agencies.
6.Dreamstime
With over 35 million images, Dreamstime is a well-known microstock website. Photographers can expect a 25-50% royalty, though can only withdraw once their account balance exceeds $100. If you upload an exclusive image, you’ll receive an extra 10%.
Photographers must be approved to get started, then are given access to an FTP to upload their images to. Images must be at least three megapixels, and can also be rejected for excessive noise and other quality issues. Photographers have an approval rating. Those with a higher rating can upload the maximum number of images per week, though profiles with low ratings are much more limited in their number of uploads. Exclusive contributors are also granted additional uploads.
DreamsTime.com is an online royalty-free microstock provider based in Brentwood, Tennessee.
7.Shutterstock
As a well-known database with over 350 million images, Shutterstock is an excellent option for selling stock photos. Along with having a wide reach, they also offer resources for photographers looking to improve their work and make the most out of their stock photos.
Shutterstock contributors earn up to 33% of the sale. Contributors earn a higher percentage as their lifetime earnings grows, so while payout could be slow at first, it does have a pretty big potential. Shutterstock also sells enhanced image licenses, where photographers take home $28, and custom images as well. Plus, selling stock isn’t the only way for photographers to earn money. When you make a referral to another photographer, you’ll earn $.04 of every sale that new contributor makes for the next two years. Customer referrals earn 20% of their first purchase (up to $200).
Shutterstock is a global provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; it is headquartered in New York.
8.123RF
123RF is another platform that pays more as you get established, with the potential for a 60% royalty for the highest-ranked photographers, and 30% for those just getting started. Extended licenses also enhance the possibility of a higher payout.
After the initial sign-up and upload, 123RF is fast and easy to use. Since the more photos you add, the higher your commissions are, the quick uploads are a big advantage.
123RF is a stock photos agency founded in 2005 which sells royalty-free images and stock photography. In the past few years, 123RF expanded the portfolio to serve the growing market of the web-based content industry.
9.Stocksy
Stocksy is relatively new on the stock photo scene but worth considering nonetheless. They pay out a 50% commission, and unlike many others, accept smartphone photographers too. This new form of photography is on the rise with the growing mobile penetration, and an online smartphone photography course may be good way to turn into a mobile photographer. While Stocksy only takes in a limited number of new photographers every year, they encourage creativity. They want more than the boring traditional stock photo.
Stocksy images must be exclusively sold on that platform. Photographers can still work with other stock photo agencies, but cannot sell an image that’s on Stocksy anywhere else. They’re also a bit slower to respond, with submitted portfolios reviewed within one to two months.
Stocksy United, also referred to as Stocksy or Stocksy United Photography, is a Victoria, British Columbia based platform cooperative that accepts and provides royalty-free stock photography and stock video. Stocksy uses a curated editing approach to select useful and authentic photos.
10.Crestock
The beauty in Crestock is the simplicity. Applying is just filling out a form and uploading photos, then waiting for approval by the editing team. The photographer retains their rights and can still sell on other stock websites too. Pay is between 20-40%. While not as well known, it’s still a solid option, particularly because you can sell images elsewhere too.
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