Surfacing Images For Greater Revenue

Posted on 3/31/2015 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (3)

One of the biggest problems for stock photographers is the percent of their images in major collections that haven’t been shown to any customer for years. I suspect that most of the major distributors aren’t even tracking this figure. If I had to guess I would estimate that as many as half the thumbnails in most online collections have not been viewed by any customer in the last two years.

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Charles Cecil Posted Mar 31, 2015
Jim:

It all makes sense. Do you have a distribution list that will allow you to send a courtesy copy of this Selling Stock to the content manager of each major stock agency?

Cheers,
Chuck

Danita Delimont Posted Mar 31, 2015
So sad, so true. I did an overall search on our site for "Venice" recently and nearly cried as I reached the last page because there were so many outstanding images that I fear will rarely been seen. We did a re-segmentation to RF of some of the older analog RM images on our site (with the photographer's permission of course) and that brought some new life to many of the images. Still though, agencies that boast of so many images are only filtering more excellent photos to the abyss without much of a chance to sell. Nobody wins in that scenario.

Jaak Nilson Posted Apr 1, 2015
It is clear, that placement is a king. Images, content quality is secondary. Unfortunately. Agencies should do a re-segmentation for their photos.

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