PhotoShelter has published a new Free guide to Selling Stock Photography that can be found and downloaded
here.
Included in the guide are the results of a PhotoShelter survey of 500 buyers of stock. There were asked to list the agencies they use when searching for stock photography. It is no surprise that Getty and Corbis topped the list, but the number and frequency of mentions of other sites is interesting.
| iStockphoto |
172 mentions |
Getty owned |
| Veer |
81 mentions |
Corbis owned |
| Shutterstock |
53 mentions |
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| Alamy |
16-30 mentions |
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| AP Images |
16-30 mentions |
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| Dreamstime |
16-30 mentions |
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| Fotolia |
16-30 mentions |
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| Jupiter |
16-30 mentions |
Getty owned |
| Masterfile |
16-30 mentions |
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| Photolibrary |
16-30 mentions |
Getty owned |
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| age fotostock |
8-15 mentions |
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| Flickr |
8-15 mentions |
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| Fotosearch |
8-15 mentions |
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| Gallerystock |
8-15 mentions |
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| National Geographic |
8-15 mentions |
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| Photos.com |
8-15 mentions |
Getty owned |
| PhotoShelter |
8-15 mentions |
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| Punchstock |
8-15 mentions |
Getty owned |
| Superstock |
8-15 mentions |
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| Thinkstock |
8-15 mentions |
Getty owned |
94 other agencies received 7 or fewer mentions. You can find the names of these agencies on page 16 of the PhotoShelter guide.
Of particular note is the number of professional buyers who are using the four leading microstock sites – iStockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime and Fotolia – to find the images they need. Also note the number of sites among those that are most used that offer Royalty Free images exclusively.
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