SpaceBeers
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Hi,
I found this board when researching stock photography sites and their commissions, rates etc for a project I'm trying to decide whether to start or not.
I work for a design agency in Brighton who recently sourced 7 images for a client at a total of around £3.5K. I'm a web developer so when I was told the photographer would only see less than 20% of that I was quite surprised at how low that was and how unfair it seemed.
I've been looking to see if this is how all the site's work and in general they all seem to be heavily weighted towards keeping all the money and giving the photographer a fairly small percentage or a slightly bigger percentage but charging a annual fee.
My question is this: Would photographers selling stock images use a site that either:
A: Charges a small fee to upload an image but then gives back 100% of the sales to the photographer?
Or
B: Takes a flat fee (say 25p) per download and the rest goes to the photographer?
Or
C: Offered a choice of the two models above.
Seems a bit unfair that for just hosting the images they get to keep so much of the proceeds.
Thanks. I appreciate any comments, help, constructive criticism etc. I'm just trying to get real photographers opinions really at the moment.
I found this board when researching stock photography sites and their commissions, rates etc for a project I'm trying to decide whether to start or not.
I work for a design agency in Brighton who recently sourced 7 images for a client at a total of around £3.5K. I'm a web developer so when I was told the photographer would only see less than 20% of that I was quite surprised at how low that was and how unfair it seemed.
I've been looking to see if this is how all the site's work and in general they all seem to be heavily weighted towards keeping all the money and giving the photographer a fairly small percentage or a slightly bigger percentage but charging a annual fee.
My question is this: Would photographers selling stock images use a site that either:
A: Charges a small fee to upload an image but then gives back 100% of the sales to the photographer?
Or
B: Takes a flat fee (say 25p) per download and the rest goes to the photographer?
Or
C: Offered a choice of the two models above.
Seems a bit unfair that for just hosting the images they get to keep so much of the proceeds.
Thanks. I appreciate any comments, help, constructive criticism etc. I'm just trying to get real photographers opinions really at the moment.