Does anyone know and is willing to share which stock agencies places / or custom photo request places pay more then 20.00 and what their guidelines for submitting are?
//www.microstockforum.com/Agency2/index.php
(found another link for micro sites but still looking for the bigger ones)
Also found this quote from //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_photography
Leading agencies during this time included The Image Bank, SuperStock, Comstock Images, FPG, Index Stock Imagery, and Masterfile.
In the 1990s, a period of consolidation followed, with Getty Images and Corbis becoming the two largest companies as a result of acquisitions. Today, stock photography companies have largely moved online. In the early 2000s, JupiterMedia Corporation has started buying some of the smaller players in the market, aggregating them under the banner of their JupiterImages division, and became the third largest player in the market. The availability of the internet provided a means for other, smaller companies to get foothold in the industry. One such company is Alamy who has since become a significant competitor in the market with over 4 million pictures in its gallery.
In the 2000s the microstock photography industry, led by iStockPhoto and later ShutterStock and Dreamstime, emerged as a rapidly growing market. Using the Internet as their sole distribution method, and recruiting mainly amateur and hobbyist photographers from around the globe, these companies are able to offer stock libraries of good quality for very low prices.
In 2004 fotoLibra pioneered the open access model which allowed everyone to upload and market images, and in 2005 Scoopt started a photo news agency for citizen journalism enabling the public to upload and sell breaking news images taken with cameraphones.
Message edited by author 2006-09-21 15:33:15.
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