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• Microstock Sales and Google Image Search Data for Football vs. Soccer

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  Ellen has shared some great insight in her comment which was non-obvious to me. I’ve updated the end of the post to include her thoughts. Given that it’s (American) football season, I decided to take a look at microstock earnings stats for ‘football’ and also decided to look at the stats for ’soccer’ ...
  2 days ago

• Microstock Earnings Report November 2009

  
  Microstock Diaries — Authority: 107
  This will be the last of my regular earnings reports. Next month I’ll be taking it to a whole new level. Stay tuned! Jack’s Results Despite a slight slowdown in Jack’s uploads, his earnings reached a new total record, largely thanks to two Extended License sales at Shutterstock. Total sales/downloads were down ...
  4 days ago

• Two great posts on search keywords & seasonality (via Microstock Insider)

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  Steve Gibson ( @microstockin on Twitter) at Microstock Insider has a couple of great posts up that are well worth your time. The first is a post about popular search keywords and the second, from last year, is about seasonal stock images . Lots of good data and exploration of the relationship between popular ...
  4 days ago

• Passive Income and Microstock Earnings for November

  
  Illustration Info — Authority: 107
  Well, it was finally a down month for me. Five months of having a "best month ever" was a pretty good run, but I guess it couldn’t last forever. With Christmas next month, I’m not holding my breath for December to break any records either. Here’s the breakdown: Company Portfolio Size ...
  5 days ago

• This Month in Microstock – November 2009

  
  Microstock Diaries — Authority: 107
  November was the slowest news month in the microstock market for as long as I’ve been taking notice. No major announcements from any of the top agencies, so this month’s news comes in bullet point form: Fotolia opened a customized site in Turkey , the first to do so LookStat added a very cool Collections ...
  5 days ago

• How to reduce EPS illustration file size

  
  TipClique Tutorials — Authority: 143
  seop.com Posted by orson Several tips, tricks and tutorials for reducing the file size of vector illustrations in EPS Adobe Illustrator 8 format, so they can be submitted into various microstock sites. Tags: eps , file size , illustrator , microstock , optimize , vector © TipClique Tutorials , ...
  6 days ago

• Good Post on the Long Tail and Microstock (via Microstock Diaries)

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  Lee has a great post on his blog about the Long Tail and the application of some of its ideas to microstock. The post and comments are well worth a read, but Lee’s summary gets to the heart of the matter. If you want to create photos in the most popular subjects, expect that you’ll be competing on quality If ...
  6 days ago

• Microstock isn’t perfect, but economic progress rarely is.

  
  Taylor Davidson — Authority: 463
  “Economic progress doesn’t care in the slightest how much you liked how things used to be” ( link ), stock photography edition. John Harrington, Microstock Creates New Markets? – No, It Devastates Existing Ones : Stop saying “microstock creates markets” and instead try “microstock markets are ...
  1 week ago

• Top Search Keywords for Energy

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  Environmental themes are common in microstock and I thought it would be helpful to share the top search keywords associated with ‘energy’ to aid in planning and keywording energy related microstock concepts. Top Search Keywords (via Google Adwords Query Tool ) The big takeaways here are is that ’solar ...
  1 week ago

• The Seedy Side of Microstock

  
  Rasmus Rasmussen dot com — Authority: 104
  This is the dawn of a new era in microstock photography. The sub-industry that destroyed the existing industry has now grown big enough, that microstock itself has a slew of sub-industries and businesses. For a while now, photographers have been able to get everything from software and consultations to retouching ...
  1 week ago

• Stock Photography from A Designer’s Perspective (via Torch Designs on Dreamstime)

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  I came across a great post by Torchdesigns on Dreamstime which talks about what designers are looking for from stock photography. It’s a great post and well worth your time to read but the summary is they are looking for: Something specific High quality Harmony with the other elements When I have ...
  1 week ago

• Microstock and the Long Tail

  
  Microstock Diaries — Authority: 107
  The long tail theory applies to microstock in many different ways. Let’s take a look at a few and see what we can learn to help us sell more photos. What is the Long Tail? In popular media, such as movies, music and books, a small number of products achieve a high volume of sales.  They’re ‘hits’ and ...
  1 week ago

• Smoke gets in your eyes

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 117
  There is more to the story than just numbers. Much, much more. And the official media ignores it. But what the photo industry is currently experiencing is much, much more than just a few layoff.What we are seeing is the disappearance of  knowledge. Most of the photo editors being let go from magazines, newspapers, ...
  1 week ago

• US Demographic Trends – College Graduation & Enrollment

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  I analyzed and plotted the latest projections for degrees conferred from the U.S. Department of Education to show gender related trends. The graph below shows historical and projected data by gender for all degree types (Associated, Bachelors, Masters & Doctoral) from 2000-2015. More Women than Men ...
  2 weeks ago

• Search Trends – Valentine’s Day

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  While playing around with Google Insights data for Valentine’s day trends , I was somewhat surprised to find that there are on average 6 times as many searches for ‘valentine’s gifts for him’ as there are for ‘valentine’s gifts for her.’ I guess men just stick to flowers, chocolates & jewelry ...
  2 weeks ago

• Microstock Photography Analytics – Easter Earnings per Image Trends

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  As part of my analysis of seasonal trends, I looked at LookStat ’s 2008 data for images tagged with ‘Easter’ as a keyword. In addition, I did some quick search keyword analysis to see if there were any useful pieces of data. 2008 Royalties for Images Tagged with ‘Easter’ Easter was on March 23, 2008 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Halfway back and rolling

  
  NiltoMil is a microstock blog for photographers looking to make money with their photos and learn more about the stock photogra — Authority: 100
  Images are going up now – mostly stuff I’ve shot in the past because we’re moving and my photo stuff is packed.  I am working on submitting older images.  I know they won’t sell quite the way I want but honestly I need to start getting momentum back and start submitting, get into all the right habits and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of Hills, Peaks and Valleys

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 117
  Is creativity limitless? Can we go on and on creating new pictures that have never been seen or are we going to reach a point where we will start going into circles and re-shooting the same things over and over again? Is there a point where nothing will be new ?Creativity is the lifeblood of [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Microstock Photography Analytics – Thanksgiving $/DL & Print vs. Online Uses

  
  LookStat - Official Blog — Authority: 117
  When analyzing the data for Thanksgiving image sales, I was intrigued by how close to the holiday the sales peak was. I assumed that the early increase would be print sales and that online uses would prevail closer to the time of the holiday. My hypothesis was that if I dug into the earnings per download ($/DL) data, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Do not feed the animal

  
  Thoughts of a Bohemian — Authority: 117
  The current photo industry and newcomers apply a completely flawed logic to licensing images. It is too often believed that if an image is largely seen, it will be licensed. The thinking come from primeval logic. It goes like this:- if an image is not seen, it will never be sold. (which is a truism). [...]
  3 weeks ago

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