January 8, 2017
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on Sales List at Shutterstock with Locations
In a few groups I saw people posting screen shots of their latest sales at Shutterstock, listing them with locations. As this looked cool, I looked for how to do that. Two contributors have taken the effort to write Greasemonkey … Continue reading
January 4, 2017
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on Tax Forms W-8BEN at Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Fotolia or Dreamstime
Every contributor faces this at the start, and many will have received a new message to renew it these days: The tax forms at the big US based microstock agencies. So let’s have a quick look at how to fill … Continue reading
January 7, 2016
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on EyeEm: Distribution by Alamy – And Change to Non-Exclusive
As sent out today by EyeEm to their contributors, Alamy will be added as the second distribution partner for their EyeEm Collection. In a second major step, EyeEm confirmed what has been rumored for some time: The exclusivity requirement for … Continue reading
October 13, 2015
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on Making money from mobile smart phone images? An experiment.
For maybe a bit more than two years, mobile sourcing of images for licensing to commercial and editorial customers has become a bigger topic. It’s hard to say where things started to get serious but when
October 7, 2015
by Michael Jay Fotograf
Comments Off on The state of the microstock world and me in it
Dear readers, you haven’t been forgotten. I have been dreaming about updating my blog more regularly again but there are two reasons I haven’t been more active: For one, while a lot of things are changing, nothing seems really to … Continue reading