Pure Reviews

Another month of 2012 is in the record books and it was a good one.  The top 3 sites are Alamy (thanks to a very large sale), Shutterstock (had a large increase from last month) and then Dreamstime .  123RF and Bigstock are also nipping on DT's heels.  Below is the chart featuring all the sites I had a sale on.  Every site I submit images to is on the left.

Zoonar adds Getty Images to their partner distribution list.  Its interesting that they have it in their clause that you cant send the images to their biggest competition Veer and Corbis.  The second bit of news is they are dropping the commission rate by 10%  for partner sales.  Zoonar sales will still get commissions up to 80%. Dear photographers, we have important news for you: 1. We are pleased to present Getty Images as our new distribution partner. As of now you can only submit photos which don’t require a model or property release. We hope to offer you a new release management tool by the middle of 2012, which will make it possible for you to submit photos that require a release. Getty Images has generated high sales through its platforms Jupiterimages and Thinkstock which has made many photographers want to submit photos for this partner. We are expectant to see how many photos will be accepted by Getty Images. We have no figures based on experience yet, but we

YAY does some updates fresh updates on their site.  New features include downloadable stats via CSV files, new partners and a increase minimum megapixels requirement.  Read all about the updates below or join YAY here . It’s time for a new update about what is happening at YAY : First, we’re happy to announce that you’ll now get the sales stats as csv-files. You’ll find it under http://yaymicro.com/salestats. action when logged in. Some of you might see partner sales with a low price for each image. This is due to partner subscription of small or extra small images. On partner subscriptions we get paid for our share of downloads, and then we divide our share with the photographers with sold images. Therefore you will see a combination of large and small prices from the same partners, depending on how many images the customer downloaded, and your share of those images. If you have any questions about this – just e-mail me (reply to this email), and I’ll help you! We