Introduction to Microstock Photography – Other Sites
In this post we will discuss the other microstock sites that are available. The two primary sites we will focus on are Fotolia and Dreamstime. However, there are also other sites. Fotolia and Dreamstime are the third and fourth largest microstock sites available today – though not necessarily in that order. Approximately six months ago, Fotolia was easily the third largest site in terms of sales. In recent months though, this has clearly moved in favor of Dreamstime. In fact, next to Shutterstock, Dreamstime has seen the largest increase in sales for me and if it continues at this rate next year it could start overcoming IStockPhoto in sales.
In general, for all sites except for IStockPhoto and Shutterstock I pay very little attention to them. When I have pictures to submit, I submit to them and I check my sales each day. However I never really pay attention to which pictures they accept and reject and I never resubmit rejected photos to them.
I will now cover these sites in more depth.