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06/26/2006 12:59:03 PM · #1
I recently became a member of Fotolia and uploaded images to it that are doing well on SS and istock, yet, nothing has sold, not a single D/L after a month of membership. Hell, even 123rf, which kinda sucks is selling better.

Does anyone actually sell photos on fotolia? What gives?
06/26/2006 01:02:17 PM · #2
Yeah, for me it is doing pretty well. It is not as good as dreamstime or istock yet, but it is getting there. It is improving quite a bit each month as well.

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06/26/2006 01:06:33 PM · #3
Fotolia is working for me... and to mirror leaf not quite as good as dreamstime or istock but my sales there are actually catching up to the rest.
06/26/2006 01:07:10 PM · #4
I've had about 6 downloads, with about 60-70 photos approved. I get hardly any there or at iStock; I do far better at Shutterstock, where I average about 1 DL/day from a pool of 120 approved photos.

But I have a lot of "oddball" photos, with no model-released business-people or other shots which really sell ... for example this former entry has 6 DL's at SS:



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06/26/2006 01:15:00 PM · #5
Is anyone noticing any sort of trend on which shots sell better there as compared to the other sites?

I'm doing about 10 sales a day at shutterstock with an image base of 59 images. And notice that tech and medical are the best overall sellers.
06/26/2006 01:23:38 PM · #6
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:

Is anyone noticing any sort of trend on which shots sell better there as compared to the other sites?

I'm doing about 10 sales a day at shutterstock with an image base of 59 images. And notice that tech and medical are the best overall sellers.

Think about what's being published in low-volume but widespread settings: patient information, brochures, specialty magazines, newsletters, etc., and the ads which go in them By far, my biggest seller is a medical-related image.

But I think, overall, model-released images of people/activities do best. At Shutterstock, you can check the top 50 or 100 for both the previous week and all-time to see what sells ... I don't remember if the other sites have similar stats -- I've never looks,
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