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		<title>Comment on Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning by bobbigmac</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/questions-about-stock-photo-keywording-and-captioning/#comment-7674</link>
		<dc:creator>bobbigmac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks :) Very glad you like the site!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks <img src='http://blog.picniche.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Very glad you like the site!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Questions about Stock Photo Keywording and Captioning by Vera Lubimova</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/questions-about-stock-photo-keywording-and-captioning/#comment-7664</link>
		<dc:creator>Vera Lubimova</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Previously I have been spending too much time and efforts to attribute my images. Their titles and descriptions were brief and empty, keywords were occasionally incorrect.
First time I heard about picWorkflow during the conference STOCKinRUSSIA 2011 (hope Bob will arrive again next year) and now I&#039;m fully happy with it. I can confidently confirm that picWorkflow is a wonderful service - real charger for my job!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Previously I have been spending too much time and efforts to attribute my images. Their titles and descriptions were brief and empty, keywords were occasionally incorrect.<br />
First time I heard about picWorkflow during the conference STOCKinRUSSIA 2011 (hope Bob will arrive again next year) and now I&#8217;m fully happy with it. I can confidently confirm that picWorkflow is a wonderful service &#8211; real charger for my job!</p>
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		<title>Comment on TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer&#8217;s Searches &#8211; THE List by Brad</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/featured/top-1000-stock-photo-buyers-searches-the-list/#comment-6754</link>
		<dc:creator>Brad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for your efforts!</description>
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		<title>Comment on TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer&#8217;s Searches &#8211; THE List by Luis Santos</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/featured/top-1000-stock-photo-buyers-searches-the-list/#comment-6753</link>
		<dc:creator>Luis Santos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Bob! The new list is the one you published on the beginning of this year? thanks!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Bob! The new list is the one you published on the beginning of this year? thanks!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Microstock 2011 &#8211; an Infographic in Review by Linktipps: Microstock 2011 Infografik &#8211; Umfrage &#8211; Videotrainings &#8211; Verhandlungen und RPIs - Fotos verkaufen - Bilder verkaufen</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/microstock-2011-in-review/#comment-6511</link>
		<dc:creator>Linktipps: Microstock 2011 Infografik &#8211; Umfrage &#8211; Videotrainings &#8211; Verhandlungen und RPIs - Fotos verkaufen - Bilder verkaufen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] an Ihrer Verteilerplattform geändert sondern auch eine tolle Infografik online gestellt. Die Microstock 2011 Infografik zeigt eine Übersicht über alle wichtigen Ereignisse in der Microstock Branche 2011. Am meisten [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Microstock 2011 &#8211; an Infographic in Review by bobbigmac</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/microstock-2011-in-review/#comment-6034</link>
		<dc:creator>bobbigmac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some clarifications as a result of questions/comments over on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/stats-on-microstock/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;microstockgroup&lt;/a&gt;

Shutterstock show a smaller market-share (by unique users) than they would if it showed market-share (by revenue) because of their strong subscription-base (for obvious reasons).
Defining and detecting a unique-user is pretty complicated (it&#039;s a whole big web-analytics thing) since everyone measures it differently and in many cases it can be gamed (a couple of agencies gained 1% on their market-share in that chart because they&#039;ve gamed their usage stats, or have better social-media-integration than others). It&#039;s a small enough margin though that it didn&#039;t need to be factored in for the sake of an infographic where 1% on a pie is pretty meaningless.

The iStock numbers are pretty accurate (give-or-take a bit of wiggle-room)... some details in this video of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A1C4EDD72DB3DA6&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;my StockInRussia presentation&lt;/a&gt; (~606 photographers make 80% of iStock&#039;s revenue iirc).
iStock has just over 37,000 contributor accounts with at least 1 image for sale (getting excel to chart that many datapoints was a challenge I can tell you ;)).

~19 million images (~ = approx, in this case a ballpark of around 16-22m) uploaded (not accepted) is based on how many images I KNOW were uploaded to each of the 40+ agencies on picWorkflow, extrapolated for the rough market-share and number of agencies (and micro-priced individual collections) I know of across the industry, then reduced to account (this is the least certain part) for the number of duplicates (also gathered from picWorkflow data). It&#039;s not &#039;hard fact&#039; (hence the section is fact&#039;oids&#039;, not facts ;)), but it&#039;s a pretty close estimate.
Don&#039;t forget, on the scale of the web, 19 million is not that much... flickr was getting 1 million per day in 2006, and facebook gets 200 million per day now. There are a LOT of photos on the web, and a LOT of photo-selling sites. I know fb/flickr don&#039;t equate to stock but as an indicator of how many people are capable of producing images it&#039;s good to know a comparison since at such large scales numbers like this don&#039;t make much sense :)

I also &#039;discovered&#039; that many of the biggest contributors to iStock already do collaborate with each-other, or negotiate better terms. I&#039;m not important enough to know for a fact what those terms are, but preferential search-placement is certainly on their radar. The iStock search-engine know who produces images which convert views-to-sales, and reward them.

The list of search terms are not from iStock (no microstock agencies currently make their actual search volumes available, despite my constant and ongoing requests)... the search terms are gathered from my own microstock search apps, addons, feeds, plugins, widgets and various other services/proxies I run. My dataset is skewed towards these split (so it doesn&#039;t make 100%) demographics:
~90% technically-capable users (at least enough to install an addon/plugin or run a blog/website)
~90% individuals or freelance/self-employed
~40% free-users (want free images, I&#039;m working on the upsell)
~10% spam-users (kids looking for naughty pictures)
The searches are accurate for all of my received searches, it&#039;s close to agency data, but not 100% what they would see since I have very low corporate-reach (mainly means I see a drop in business or news related terms, I also have a low-side people search-list but that&#039;s improving).

As MikLav said, I am referring specifically to growth when I say &quot;outpace the growth&quot;, not volume. Volume on stills will probably always outsell footage, though total revenue for footage will probably beat stills within 3 years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some clarifications as a result of questions/comments over on <a href="http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/stats-on-microstock/" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/stats-on-microstock/?referer=');">microstockgroup</a></p>
<p>Shutterstock show a smaller market-share (by unique users) than they would if it showed market-share (by revenue) because of their strong subscription-base (for obvious reasons).<br />
Defining and detecting a unique-user is pretty complicated (it&#8217;s a whole big web-analytics thing) since everyone measures it differently and in many cases it can be gamed (a couple of agencies gained 1% on their market-share in that chart because they&#8217;ve gamed their usage stats, or have better social-media-integration than others). It&#8217;s a small enough margin though that it didn&#8217;t need to be factored in for the sake of an infographic where 1% on a pie is pretty meaningless.</p>
<p>The iStock numbers are pretty accurate (give-or-take a bit of wiggle-room)&#8230; some details in this video of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A1C4EDD72DB3DA6" rel="nofollow" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A1C4EDD72DB3DA6&amp;referer=');">my StockInRussia presentation</a> (~606 photographers make 80% of iStock&#8217;s revenue iirc).<br />
iStock has just over 37,000 contributor accounts with at least 1 image for sale (getting excel to chart that many datapoints was a challenge I can tell you <img src='http://blog.picniche.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> ).</p>
<p>~19 million images (~ = approx, in this case a ballpark of around 16-22m) uploaded (not accepted) is based on how many images I KNOW were uploaded to each of the 40+ agencies on picWorkflow, extrapolated for the rough market-share and number of agencies (and micro-priced individual collections) I know of across the industry, then reduced to account (this is the least certain part) for the number of duplicates (also gathered from picWorkflow data). It&#8217;s not &#8216;hard fact&#8217; (hence the section is fact&#8217;oids&#8217;, not facts <img src='http://blog.picniche.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> ), but it&#8217;s a pretty close estimate.<br />
Don&#8217;t forget, on the scale of the web, 19 million is not that much&#8230; flickr was getting 1 million per day in 2006, and facebook gets 200 million per day now. There are a LOT of photos on the web, and a LOT of photo-selling sites. I know fb/flickr don&#8217;t equate to stock but as an indicator of how many people are capable of producing images it&#8217;s good to know a comparison since at such large scales numbers like this don&#8217;t make much sense <img src='http://blog.picniche.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I also &#8216;discovered&#8217; that many of the biggest contributors to iStock already do collaborate with each-other, or negotiate better terms. I&#8217;m not important enough to know for a fact what those terms are, but preferential search-placement is certainly on their radar. The iStock search-engine know who produces images which convert views-to-sales, and reward them.</p>
<p>The list of search terms are not from iStock (no microstock agencies currently make their actual search volumes available, despite my constant and ongoing requests)&#8230; the search terms are gathered from my own microstock search apps, addons, feeds, plugins, widgets and various other services/proxies I run. My dataset is skewed towards these split (so it doesn&#8217;t make 100%) demographics:<br />
~90% technically-capable users (at least enough to install an addon/plugin or run a blog/website)<br />
~90% individuals or freelance/self-employed<br />
~40% free-users (want free images, I&#8217;m working on the upsell)<br />
~10% spam-users (kids looking for naughty pictures)<br />
The searches are accurate for all of my received searches, it&#8217;s close to agency data, but not 100% what they would see since I have very low corporate-reach (mainly means I see a drop in business or news related terms, I also have a low-side people search-list but that&#8217;s improving).</p>
<p>As MikLav said, I am referring specifically to growth when I say &#8220;outpace the growth&#8221;, not volume. Volume on stills will probably always outsell footage, though total revenue for footage will probably beat stills within 3 years.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Microstock 2011 &#8211; an Infographic in Review by Das Microstock Jahr 2011 als Infografik &#124; Microstock Blog - Fotos verkaufen bei Bild- und Microstock Agenturen</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/microstock-2011-in-review/#comment-5984</link>
		<dc:creator>Das Microstock Jahr 2011 als Infografik &#124; Microstock Blog - Fotos verkaufen bei Bild- und Microstock Agenturen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Picniche Macher Bobbimac hat in seinem Blog eine fantastische Auswertung des Microstock Jahres 2011 als Infografik erstellt. Interessant ist, [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Do microstock agencies violate photographer&#8217;s DMCA copyright? by Welcome to 2012 &#8211; picNiche State of the Union &#124; picNiche Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/do-microstock-agencies-violate-photographers-dmca-copyright/#comment-5925</link>
		<dc:creator>Welcome to 2012 &#8211; picNiche State of the Union &#124; picNiche Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Do microstock agencies violate photographer&#039;s DMCA copyright? [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer&#8217;s Searches &#8211; THE List by Welcome to 2012 &#8211; picNiche State of the Union &#124; picNiche Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/featured/top-1000-stock-photo-buyers-searches-the-list/#comment-5924</link>
		<dc:creator>Welcome to 2012 &#8211; picNiche State of the Union &#124; picNiche Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] TOP 1000 Stock Photo Buyer&#039;s Searches - THE List [...]</description>
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		<title>Comment on Microstock 2011 &#8211; an Infographic in Review by Microstock 2011 &#124; Banki Zdjęć - zarabianie na zdjęciach - microstock - giełdy zdjęć - zdjęcia reklamowe - sprzedaż zdjęć - zarabianie w Internecie</title>
		<link>http://blog.picniche.com/microstock/microstock-2011-in-review/#comment-5911</link>
		<dc:creator>Microstock 2011 &#124; Banki Zdjęć - zarabianie na zdjęciach - microstock - giełdy zdjęć - zdjęcia reklamowe - sprzedaż zdjęć - zarabianie w Internecie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 09:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] dni temu via G+ Bob Davies udostępnił bardzo ładne podsumowanie roku 2011, dla tych co wolą poczytać po polsku przygotowałem tłumaczenie tekstowe (po wykresy zapraszam [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] dni temu via G+ Bob Davies udostępnił bardzo ładne podsumowanie roku 2011, dla tych co wolą poczytać po polsku przygotowałem tłumaczenie tekstowe (po wykresy zapraszam [...]</p>
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