Snapixel is a website that allows you to upload and sell your images without an inspection process. We have seen this concept before in Mostphotos and Clustershot, and like those sites the lack of review can cause problems with respect to selling images, but it also has a few advantages. The potential for an incredibly long tail of 'randomness' that would not normally be considered stock being one of them. Read the reviews above for my comments on issues posed by this style of site.

Flickr meets iStockphoto

While Clustershot went for a "smugmug for free" (photographers try to sell photos) feel, snapixel has more of a "flickr community with photo sales" sentiment; in fact in their press release they tag themselves at "flickr meets iStockphoto". 

Like Clustershot I can't quite draw direct comparisons between this style of site and other microstock agencies, neither are out to advertise direct to buyers and sell images, both seem to be more angled towards drawing traffic in other sustainable ways. That said I have uploaded images to see what's going on. Snapixel is in the "developing and collecting images phase", they'll need lots of traffic and things like an API and or affiliate program if they want to generate serious sales on their own terms. For now if I had to pick a single site where I would independently try to market all of my photos direct to buyers it would be clustershot, but to be fair clustershot is more mature, and Snapixel is still developing.

Extended license prices can be varied by user, the guide prices below uses the standard license prices $8.89 for a 'large' image

Like flickr you can use the site to just display images, or give them away as creative commons in addition to being able to sell them under a handful of custom license prices.

Accounts are free for up to 5GB of storage. You can upgrade to a pro account with unlimited storage, currently priced at 9.95 euros yearly. The pro option also comes with the bonus of being to use the service to backup original files.

Summary

Snapixel is a quick and easy place to upload a portfolio of pre-keyworded images, and yes indeed Yuri has almost 20k images on there, but for many microstockers, especially the casual photographers time might be better spent concentrating on new images at your chosen agencies. This site is yet another slightly new take on selling photos, flickr have so-far resisted getting into selling digital downloads, with all the similarities between Snapixel an Flickr it leaves me again wondering why? The answer to that question might shed light on to the future success or failure of Snapixel. I'll keep you updated.