Microstock Agencies
In order to get the maximum possible return for each image, we’ve decided to skip exclusivity for now and focus our attention on a broad spectrum of stock agencies. We are always examining, adding, removing and investigating agencies. Our plans for 2009 include adding Alamy and removing a few non-earners from our regular upload cycle. Production is key so I’ll put the list of agencies we work with into our income order.
1) Shutterstock – by far our biggest producer.
2) Dreamstime – images “season in” and produce more later than they do earlier.
3) IStock – difficult but worth it.
4) Fotolia – hard on some types of images.
5) 123RF – a mid level producer for us.
6) Bigstock – just behind 123RF in rank.
7) StockXpert – coming on hard lately and may be top 4 soon.
Other agencies we submit to but not regularly include:
