Category Archives: Research

Good Stock Photo Ideas and picNiche Rated Information

How long does image keywording take on picWorkflow?

By bobbigmac | Published: December 15, 2011
[Translate] One of the most common questions I get about picWorkflow is how long keywording of images takes… since it’s a ‘natural system’ (because keyworders are crowd-sourced, subject to QA, and they choose which images they want to work on, and how much they wish to earn), it’s a difficult question to give a definitive [...]
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Understanding Microstock in a Mature Industry

By bobbigmac | Published: October 21, 2011
[Translate] Everyone lately seems to be talking about dropping RPIs and the increased efforts to be a successful microstock photographer. Well I recently put together this presentation for StockInRussia microstock conference (It was a fantastic event, if you weren’t there, you really missed out), so I thought I’d screencast it (ended up with a full [...]
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Do microstock agencies violate photographer’s DMCA copyright?

By bobbigmac | Published: September 6, 2011
[Translate] I started writing this blog post after following up on Dreamstime’s excellent new DMCA-violation reporting tool they added to their system. I went and read the DMCA and followed up by reading various interpretations of the clauses within it, and subsequently drafted this post and sent out to every microstock agency I have a [...]
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Where do Independent Microstockers Submit?

By bobbigmac | Published: June 30, 2011
[Translate] Just a quick post today to take a look at some stats from picWorkflow on which Microstock agencies are commonly used (and in what proportion) by microstock photographers. (using Google Docs interactive charts so if the spaces below are blank, wait a few seconds and refresh) First up… the share of all picWorkflow accounts [...]
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TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer’s Searches – THE List

By bobbigmac | Published: February 23, 2011
[Translate] I’m finally getting a decent dataset together to answer the burning question: What are stock photo buyers searching for? Here are THE top 1000 searches made by stock photography buyers over the last 6 months to 2 years. This data, and whatever else I can gleam from the various datasets I have (around half [...]
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14 ways to Sell More Microstock Images

By bobbigmac | Published: February 5, 2011
[Translate] Lately it seems everyone is waxing lyrical about SEO and the photography industry. Everyone seems to have an article, post, report, analysis, or some other blurb about ‘the benefits of SEO’, ‘how photographers should use SEO’, ‘using SEO for more photo sales’, etc etc, though not in a single post have I seen anyone [...]
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Great Subjects to Increase Microstock Sales

By bobbigmac | Published: November 8, 2010
[Translate] This is the report of some of the best niches revealed from searches on the picNiche stock photo analysis-engine during the last month (October 2010). I also have entries below for the high picNiche rated searches among people using The Ultimate Free Stock Photo Search addon for Firefox and for Chrome. These results are [...]
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What to Shoot for Stock – Double-Whammy!

By bobbigmac | Published: October 1, 2010
[Translate] This is the report of some of the best niches revealed from searches on the picNiche stock photo analysis-engine during the last month (September 2010). I also have a new special addition to the niche list this month of most popular searches among people using The Ultimate Free Stock Photo Search addon for Firefox [...]
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Microstock Stock Photo Ideas that Sell

By bobbigmac | Published: August 16, 2010
[Translate] This is the report of some of the best niches revealed from searches on the picNiche stock photo analysis-engine during the last month (July/August 2010). If you want your microstock portfolio to sell more images, and so make more money, you should produce some images on these topics for addition to your portfolio. All [...]
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Science Themed Stock Photo Ideas To Shoot

By bobbigmac | Published: July 15, 2010
[Translate] I saw this great post on Photopreneur about Science topics being an untapped Niche in Stock Photography. There are some excellent suggestions on what to shoot for microstock and traditional stock photography, but I wondered what else might be highly relevant, and would give a good RPI (return-per-image) for the photographs or illustrations created. [...]
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