21 Nov 08: Keenimages announces it will close. They will migrate your account (optional) to their parent (paid) site Shutterpoint, for a free period of 6 months (paid thereafter). "Any outstanding money earned on keenimages will be paid shortly"
You can read the last review I had on keenimages below, clearly the news did not come as a surprise...
Previous Rating of 2/10 and been changed to -1/10 to reflect site closure.
24 Nov 08: Keenimages 'Discontinued' and accounts migrated about 2 weeks later.
With just over 40,000 images and little traffic, this is not a 'player'.
Basic image price starts at $11 (rising to $79 for high resolutions) so it's little more expensive than the leading microstock [5] sites, but that should not put you off - your photography is worth it!
The issue is does this pricing put buyers off?
prices as of Jul 08:
| $11 | Web Resolution | under 1MB | under 0.33 megapixels |
| $19 | Low Resolution | 1MB-8MB | 0.33-2.7 |
| $35 | Medium Resolution | 8MB-20MB | 2.7-6.6 |
| $59 | High Resolution | 20MB-33MB | 6.6-11 |
| $79 | Super High Resolution | 33MB and above | 11 and above |
Like imagevortex [6] (review) this site straddles the line between microstock and macrostock [7]. General consensus in the microstock community is, as for imagevortex, not too favourable when it comes to earnings.
Keenimages is a sister site to shutterpoint [8] (pay to upload and sell site - review)
Conclusion
I'm still waiting for my first images to be reviewed, I've been waiting for more than 2 months. keenimages appears to be a waste of time.