Best SELLING Stock PHOTOGRAPHY Agencies in the last 12 months

I have reviewed best selling agencies for the past 12 months based on how many images they sold... who are they?

STOCK AGENCIES:

Other Agencies: Can Stock , Big Stock, Crestock, Stocxpert, Stocksy, Pixta, Photosearch, Eye Em

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[ZdenkaDarula]

Thank you very much for watching. Do you contribute to stock? What is your experience and what do you mainly shoot?

[jerrybergquist]

Thank you for the roundup of your top stock agencies. I’m currently on several that you mentioned but I’ve spent most of my time and I’ve had the most luck with Shutterstock. I’ve just started using Lightroom so I can add the keywords to the meta details of each photo to save time when submitting to the other agencies.

[JustLearning]

I learned that there are two types of contracts offered by Stock agencies. I have thought about submitting photos to a stock agency. I am a bit afraid. But I need to look over my photos and see what I want to submit and just do it! Thanks for the videos Zdenka!

[dariaignatenko]

Thank you, it was a really useful video 🧡

[WorchihanZingkhai]

Hi Zdenka, thanks for being honest and your videos are always helpful and informative. I would like to know how do you upload all your photos and footage to these agencies at the same time? It takes a lot of time to upload and do the metadata for me? Would be great if you can suggest a way to improve workflow.

[WW-prxb]

Hello Zdenka, I love you channel so much. Could you please recommend the best camera for taking photos and recording videos? Thank you.

[MarioBenites]

Very useful information. Not many photographers make videos about this subject. Thank you!

[samdavies]

I have been a photographer for many years but am just starting out with stock photography and your videos are a great help thank you

[thomaslevine]

Hi Zenka, thank you for the videos. I was an advertising photographer but closed my studio some years back. I travel to take photographs and currently in Vietnam. I'm not sure what stock agency would be best for travel. I have over 3, 000 photos on Alamy and sell a few each month but usually make $45 to $200 on sales. They let me pick whether it's rights managed or royalty free. Do the others let you pick? I also shoot nature, seascapes and landscapes, not too many people except for travel images. any advice, should I upload to the other agencies and what do you use to keep track of who you put photos with? I really enjoy your videos, thank you again!!

[RenataAngerami]

Hi Zdenka! Your videos are amazing!!! I have a doubt about how to choose if it is better to upload one photo as commercial or editorial.... For exemple, I have some photos of my daughter (she is 20 years old) at Times Square.... and I don"t know if it will sell more as commercial or editorial....can you help me with this? thanks a lot !!!

[rotaruciprian]

video. Thank you for sharing this information with us. I am not professional Photographer (like you), but I like it like a hobby and for couple months I tryed Shutterstock. I follow your advise (in a past video) "don`t give up to upload on Shutterstock" and first sale was something like "big step for me...little step" for Photography. So....thank you.
I want to ask you: do you upload same photos to all these stock agencies or do you upload some categories of photos to Shutterstock, some categories to Adobe....etc






p.s. sorry for my english

[mikefitzpatrick]

Do you use any particular stock submitter/ uploader app? A few years ago I tried a couple (cannot even remember names) that worked to a certain extent with various agencies but different results with each. Every site needed further work after the upload. I started with basically your list of agencies and it got to be so time consuming doing 5-6 of them (fighting the uploads)I am now down to Shutterstock, Getty, and Adobe and just submitting to them individually one at a time. I use Shutterstock key wording tool and apply key words, title, and description in Lightroom but still have to tweak to each site needs. Is there an uploader that they all will take or requires minimal work after the upload? Any input is greatly appreciated and thanks for the informative videos.

[Spartan-lghu]

Wow... I'm a hobby photographer and did not know you could do this. Look forward to more on this! Thanks!

[KatySei]

Hi zdenka, I uploaded 3 pics had to shutersstock following this video, 1 approved 2 not and shutersstock they gave me reasons.
like focus which I can can understand grain is hard.
can u review the 2 photos and tell what exactly shutterstock ment?

[SWSTVEDU]

Thank you for the video. Can you please consider talking about SD cards? What types are you using? are they the same for video and photo? Thanks

[timsmith]

I am curious if the top photo stock companies you share have a minimum megapixel? When I looked into this some years back I found that if I didn't own a Pro level high megapixel camera that some companies wouldn't let me submit. I am fairly new and was discouraged then and technology wasn't like today. I never upgraded. Thank you!

[jiyavirgo]

Thanks for share great info.
Can we upload same photo on different sites like Shutterstock and istock????

[alexpadillayt]

Are all of these stock photography websites non-exclusive that you mentioned be used able to use the same photo on different websites?

[JeffCreates]

Really helpful, thanks Zdenka. I've started submitting to stock agencies, but only got as far as Shutterstock so far. I'm already bored with the tags and descriptions but i just don't trust Blackbox so won't be using that service. It's very much a "thing to do in downtime"

[ShivaPrasad]

Thanks for sharing this valuable information with us.