• Tweet
• Email
• Sharebar

• Tweet
• Email

Unlike in November, December has seen a large movement in the microstock market.
In this post analizzamo the main innovations in this field:

New fees and changes on iStockphoto

iStockphoto has announced higher prices for all the exclusive content, an intermediate collection (called Plus-Exclusive for now) where the exclusive contributors can sell up to 20% of their portfolio at prices even higher, and changes to the amount of sales required to reach the level of "higher canister." Prices for large collections of principal will be slightly reduced. All the details can be found in the iStockphoto forum thread.

As always, the controversy arose and the response is mixed. Many contributors are concerned that the exclusive sales volume may decline now that the prices are much higher than the non-exclusive content. Buyers can not exclude the more expensive content from search results.

Many non-exclusive iStockphoto contributors see the "exclusivity factor" more interesting than before, and this is one of the explicit intent of these changes. Given their selling power and importance that have unique files in search results, the option of exclusivity of iStockphoto becomes now more than ever an undeniable attraction.

New tariffs on Dreamstime

Dreamstime has announced new rates, raising prices and thus the fees for contributors. The site has also changed the amount of downloads for each file needed to reach the next level of tariffs, with further increasing efficiency prices and commissions. The user response has been reasonably positive.

New tariffs on Fotolia

Fotolia , persisting in the strategy of "do not announce bad news," has quietly cut its commission percentages for all contributors except those at the highest level (of which there is only one). Prices for extra small to grow larger than 1 or 2 credits, making the net revenue for each sale the highest, despite price cuts of commission for most of the dimensions provided by almost all the contributors.

Fotolia is still paying the higher fees than other microstock agencies, but the response of the contributors to the cuts is always negative, despite the rapid growth of power sales agency.

StockXpert acquired 100% by Getty

Getty Images has acquired the remaining 10% of Haapiti Media, a company owned agency StockXpert. Last year, as part of the acquisition of Jupiterimage, was in possession of 90% of the company. Peter Hamza, creator and former owner of StockXpert, does not hide his sadness towards the end of StockXpert but, nevertheless, is already working on a new project.

Zymmetrical closes

As announced on December 30, Zymmetrical, microstock agency "of equity and solidarity" is no longer operational. All contributors have been paid their final claim. The managing director, Keith Tuomi, pointed to the plight of the stock industry and the economy in general as causes of business failure.

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR PHOTOS? KNOW THE PHOTOGRAPHY microstock? READ HERE FOR MORE '