This Month in Microstock – March 2010

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Some interesting developments in the microstock market this month.

Website Redesigns

123rf did a substantial website redesign this month, as did Bigstock, both on the same day.  Both updates included new logos and Bigstock also included a minor name change.

Microstock Charts

Amos Struck and I launched Microstock Charts, a free service for microstock contributors to track and (eventually) benchmark their earnings and other metrics.  Amos later launched a handy news aggregator service called Microstock News, this time partnering with everyone’s favorite Italian microstock blogger, Roberto Marinello, of mystockphoto.org.

iSyndica adds Release Management

Well on the way to automating the entire submission process with a few key agencies, iSyndica released some handy tools to manage model and property releases. Log in to your iSyndica account to check it out.

Vivozoom Boosted Affiliate Program

The Vivozoom affiliate program commission increased from 5% to 15%, with recurring commissions for 1 year.

Fotolia Selling Free Photos

Fotolia added payment options to their free photo website PhotoXpress. Paying customers get higher download quotas for the free image collection, but also limited downloads of the “Premium Collection” – images from Fotolia. Subscription prices are slightly cheaper at PhotoXpress than at Fotolia.


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