Microstock Price Comparisons

Posted on 2/13/2013 by Jim Pickerell | Printable Version | Comments (1)

Many photographers that license their images at RM and traditional RF prices still believe microstock images are being licensed for $1.00. For the most part nothing could be further from the truth. Consider these price comparisons for images on 7 different microstock sites with the average price for an RM or RF sale on Getty Images. You'll be surprised!

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Jim Pickerell Posted Feb 14, 2013
Based on information received from Serban Enache, CEO of Dreamstime, I have made some corrections in the Dreamstime numbers that I posted origionally.

Enache also pointed out, "It's important to note that the value in credits should always be correlated with the USD value of the credit (which can lead to a higher or lower price in USD)."

"Also, our subscriptions are at least as attractive to those of Shutterstock so we don't experience the migration you are talking about. But it's nevertheless true that there are many customers who will purchase from various agencies constantly)."

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