How many Microstock Agencies is Right for You? 5 Key Considerations

June 2, 2015 Marco | Editor

Some microstock contributors are exclusive and so only distribute to one agency. That agency will then distribute on to others, but the contributor only has direct contact with a single agency.

There are other contributors who distribute to up to 50 different agencies. The theory being that once the images are created, the bulk of the hard work is done. If there are lots of agencies that make it easy to contribute, why not send them a hard drive or upload to their FTP server. It could mean an extra revenue source for not much extra work.

Most microstock contributors fall somewhere …read more

Via: Microstock Diaries

Marco | Editor

Editor and founder of a bunch of stockphoto businesses

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