This is old news, but I'm keeping it for the record.
Shutterstock announced new prices. It's based on a strutured comission plan, in which you get a raise when you achieve a certain ammount of earnings. It goes like this:
| Earnings | Value per Download |
| 0 USD to 500 USD | 0,25 USD |
| 500 USD to 3.000 USD | 0,33 USD |
| 3.000 USD to 10.000 USD | 0,36 USD |
| more than 10.000 | 0,38 USD |
TinEye is a new service, still in beta, that allows doing searches using images instead of words.
You have to request an account before you can make actually use it, but it's worth it. It's also free, at least for now.
They still haven't got many images indexed (about 487 million) if you think about the size of the internet and images floating around, but you may be lucky enough to find some of your images in use. Just upload an image, enter it's url or use the firefox plug-in (which allows right clicking on any image on the web) and TinEye will find sites where that image exists.
The system is very interesting as it detects variations on the image, such as crops, mirrors, color shifts, etc.
I was able to find about a dozen images from my microstock galleries in use. An example:
When I searched by this image:
I found this site:
http://www.peterboroughlaser.com/
Give it a try.
... since I could update info on the blog. Some news, I'll cover on the next posts:
- Shutterstock price update;
- iStockPhoto Subscription plans;
- Fotolia Subscription plans;
- A nice little service called TinEye;
- YAYMicro Open to buyers.
The microstock world is boiling...
