iStock vs. Snapvillage

As I told you yesterday I have been doing the stock photography thing for a while now and I am primarily using iStock. The only problem is I am not satisfied that iStock is the best agency to be with, so I am looking at some other agencies. Snapvillage among others is one of the agencies that I am looking at. I had used Photoshelter in the past but they were not able to compete with iStock and have since closed their Stock Photography Site. I have noticed a lot of similarities between Snapvillage and Photoshelter, hopefully that is not bad news for Snapvillage. I like Snapvillage better as it is easier to figure out than iStock. iStock is not a user friendly website, and they really don't seem to care. iStock is like Microsoft in this way, they are both so big and have so much money that they don't care if they are user friendly. I spent part of my day looking around Snapvillage today getting familiar with the site. One of the things that I discovered is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of images on the site, they seem young and therefore it will be easier to get images accepted. One thing that I didn't see that I wanted to see was images with very high download numbers. I never looked at all of the images but of those that I did, I never found an image with over 100 downloads. This could be good or this could be bad I am not sure. With Snapvillage you get a lot more money per download than with iStock so they are selling the images for more money. My point is with Snapvillage you don't need as many downloads to make as the same amount of money as you do with iStock. I guess the gist of this blog is that I really don't know if Snapvillage is better than iStock but I have just started with Snapvillage and it is way to early to know. I am still waiting to be accepted as a contributor to StockXpert, so I can't tell you much about them. As I learn more I will share it with you. O.K. let me explain the image at I posted with this blog post. The image has nothing to do with Stock Photography, I posted this image for the benefit of my good friend Todd Kuhns who reads my blog daily but for some reason won't sign up as a follower of my blog. Maybe he doesn't want people to know he reads nonsense like mine on a daily basis. Someday he'll come around and see the benefit of being a follower of my blog.

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