Easiest site to submit to?

kitsen · #1 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 02:27 AM

Which do you find the easiest sites to submit to? I'd say:

1. 123RF
2. Shutterstock
3. Bigstock
4. Dreamstime
5. StocXPert
..
9. Fotolia
10. iStock :P

I've just changed to Publishing directly from my Windows folder for 123RF. Without having to categorize and with the batch approved as fast as I upload it, 123RF is the quickest and easiest site to upload to for me.

iStock makes me vomit sometimes.

cphoto · #2 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 04:42 AM

I find 123RF the easiest followed by SXP.

1. 123RF
2. SXP
3. SS
4. Dreamstime
..
9. Fotolia
10. iStock

hatman · #3 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 05:11 AM

For me, the easiest site to upload to is the one that makes me the most money...... easy because however difficult or time consuming I know my time is being well spent.

The most difficult is the one that earns me the least money or generates the lowest economic return on my time.

If iStock makes you vomit (sometimes) why don't you do the decent thing and take your pictures away from them and close your account.....
.... because if uploading to an agency that sells 16 million pictures each year and is capable of massive sales of the right images (Lise Gagne has just sold her 600,000th copy) makes you vomit it might be better for your health if you just rely on the sales you can make at 123RF.

What do you want? Easy upload? Or money, sales and success?

Nazdravie · #4 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by hatman

What do you want? Easy upload? Or money, sales and success?

All of the above, of course. Shutterstock seems to have the best mix of easy uploading and sales strength.

To me LuckyOliver is the easiest to upload to but they are near the bottom of my sales. I make more in a day or two on SS than months on LO.

hatman · #5 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 05:46 AM

Exactly.

Personally I find iStock a breeze. I'll stay up all night long to upload to them if that is what it takes.

I hear that Albumo is easy to upload to. But all I see here are moans and groans and 'wish I hadn't'......

Often the best things in life require EFFORT.

And yes I agree that Shutterstock is great.

sharpshot · #6 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 08:11 AM

Lucky Oliver is the easiest upload for me. They have so many things right I am just disappointed with the watermark. There are sales there, I was starting to get somewhere but it looks like the sideshow has taken a lot of the sales. Hope to be able to use that soon. I know it is fun to have a go at them but I will keep the faith until Christmas and then review the sales there.

istock is the worst. I just deleted a huge rant about them to save your eyes. I have been uploading there for months and haven't had a BME. My sales there were nearly cut in half earlier in the year. That is a much smaller rant

FlemishDreams · #7 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by hatman

What do you want? Easy upload? Or money, sales and success?

I want respect. I don't even care for sales really, although stock made me some money. Istock doesn't respect its contributors. They think they are Gods Gif to Stock with their redneck attitude. And no, I won't cancel my account there. I just stopped uploading a year ago. I'm crying all the way to the bank but basically, I hate them ;-)

kitsen · #8 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by hatman

For me, the easiest site to upload to is the one that makes me the most money...... easy because however difficult or time consuming I know my time is being well spent.

The most difficult is the one that earns me the least money or generates the lowest economic return on my time.

If iStock makes you vomit (sometimes) why don't you do the decent thing and take your pictures away from them and close your account.....
.... because if uploading to an agency that sells 16 million pictures each year and is capable of massive sales of the right images (Lise Gagne has just sold her 600,000th copy) makes you vomit it might be better for your health if you just rely on the sales you can make at 123RF.

What do you want? Easy upload? Or money, sales and success?

That's not very good logic. It's easiest because it makes money? Because Lise Gagne has sold 600,000? If uploading ain't easy, it ain't easy. Just because you make money and persevere, it doesn't make it easy. So I assume iStock make you the most money?

e-person · #9 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 06:23 PM

The two that work best for me are Shutterstock and iStock.

The first is very promising although doesn't really want artsy photos and film. Their upload system is not bad at all, other than for splitting comma separated keywords, which I don't like.

The second one takes more artsy photos and does not hate film. Uploading is slow, queues are a nightmare, their copyright obsession is over the top and basically wrong (same photos, rejected for copyright by them, Canadian, and among my best sellers on SS, American. How silly is that?). They still manage to sell some photos of mine and their available statistic data is way much better than SS, that simply does not provide you with any, other than pure sales. Their keywords system is pure crap, though. If I have a photo of somethig not already on IS, which I frequently do, there are no keywords available for me to use.

Editorial · #10 (**permalink**) 11-08-2007, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by kitsen

That's not very good logic. It's easiest because it makes money? Because Lise Gagne has sold 600,000? If uploading ain't easy, it ain't easy. Just because you make money and persevere, it doesn't make it easy. So I assume iStock make you the most money?

For someone who can't figure out how to get paid by fotolia, let's be brutally honest here, everything stock related looks like it's going to be a challenge for you Kitsen. I'm surprised you've managed to login into this forum :-D