I've started my microstock adventure almost a year ago, staying exclusively with Fotolia for all that time. In the beginning it was more of a half hearted attempt, however as time passed I started learning more about microstock. One of the things that annoyed me about Fotolia (other then their slow server, horrible upload system, buggy msql, out of date website) was that some of my best images didn't get any sales, not even hardly any views. Admittedly not being people shots I realised there was limited market for some of those landscape images, however I still expected a bit better, even just a tad.

So I poked around and joined a few other microstock sites, mainly based on what I've read in here (thanks for your help guys). Suddenly my sales went up, my best images are my best sellers and I no longer turn grey and green on the inside every time I submit new batches for approval.

I have however also noticed one thing, that is in comparison with Fotolia, everyone else has a LOT tighter quality standards and rules on what they do and don't accept. This clearly also explains the high number of images on Fotolia.

For example on Fotolia I have 410 accepted images, out of 600 that I submitted. Out of those only 125 have been accepted into ShutterStock, meaning that my SS approval ratio is around 20% as opposed to 66% on Fotolia. I don't actually mind as this has also spurred me on (I love a good challenge).

I was curious to what everyone else here sees as their acceptance ratios for the respective sites that you submit.

Mines so far is

BigStock 100%
FeaturePics 100%
Dreamstime 85%
Fotolia 66%
123rf 64%
ShutterStock 20%
iStock 16%
StockXpert (application pending)

To be fair to BigStock and FuturePics I only have around 10 images there each respectively.

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