Below are some prices from a couple of stock photo sites to give you how out of touch with market forces your company is.
By Market Forces I mean pays the best commissions to Stock Photographers themselves Can Stock Photo's? commisions are as follows.
Member Download
-----------Retail Return
Small----$1.50 $0.50 (33%)
Medium--$3.00 $1.75 (58%)
Large----$4.50 $3.00 (67%)
Guest Download
-----------Retail Return
Small----$3.00 $1.00 (33%)
Medium--$4.25 $2.50 (59%)
Large----$6.00 $4.00 (67%)
Compare this with Istock's commission structure which is not that great for Photographers (But it is cheapest for designers to download).
-----------Retail Return
Small-----$0.50 $0.10(20%)
Medium--$1.00 $0.20(20%)
Large-----$1.50 $0.30(20%)
As you can see the return for photographers is ten times more on Canstock.. Does your site come anywhere near this in price?
This is what you would have to beat to get photographers to start submitting to your site, a commission of $3.00-$4.00 to the Photographer themselves for each full sized pic you sell of theirs, and on top of that Photographers retain their rights to resell their photos as many times as they want to whoever they want.
By the way Istock has IstockPro which pays quite well also (but you need at least 100 photos in an online porffolio of good quality before you can join)
Could you please tell me why I should submit my photos to your site and lose complete ownership for one lousy buck, perhaps I am missing something here?
By Market Forces I mean pays the best commissions to Stock Photographers themselves Can Stock Photo's? commisions are as follows.
Member Download
-----------Retail Return
Small----$1.50 $0.50 (33%)
Medium--$3.00 $1.75 (58%)
Large----$4.50 $3.00 (67%)
Guest Download
-----------Retail Return
Small----$3.00 $1.00 (33%)
Medium--$4.25 $2.50 (59%)
Large----$6.00 $4.00 (67%)
Compare this with Istock's commission structure which is not that great for Photographers (But it is cheapest for designers to download).
-----------Retail Return
Small-----$0.50 $0.10(20%)
Medium--$1.00 $0.20(20%)
Large-----$1.50 $0.30(20%)
As you can see the return for photographers is ten times more on Canstock.. Does your site come anywhere near this in price?
This is what you would have to beat to get photographers to start submitting to your site, a commission of $3.00-$4.00 to the Photographer themselves for each full sized pic you sell of theirs, and on top of that Photographers retain their rights to resell their photos as many times as they want to whoever they want.
By the way Istock has IstockPro which pays quite well also (but you need at least 100 photos in an online porffolio of good quality before you can join)
Could you please tell me why I should submit my photos to your site and lose complete ownership for one lousy buck, perhaps I am missing something here?