May 2008

 
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Lucky Oliver has closed. it's a pitty to see it go. It was a professional looking site, and the first credible microstock site that I have seen fail. For referenece our review of the site was here.

Cutcaster have taken another step towards being credible with the launch of their affiliate program.

They provide 10% of buyers transactions and 5% of referred photographers earnings for a whole 2 years, a pretty good deal in our opinion.

It's still early days for cutcaster, but if they keep up development at the rate they are going (launch was back at the start of April this year) then they might soon start to grab a slice of the market. The do need to do some more improvements with that upload system though!

Full review of Cutcaster.com


istockphoto.com have launched their subscription service, you can visit their site for all the latest details. The big question is how will this affect sales and photographer incomes - hopefully, in some part, I've answered that here.

istockphoto subscription stock photo service

 (monthly costs)


I decided it's time to write a review of mostphotos.com, not because they are new, but I have recently noticed that their marketing as ramped up with press releases etc, any company spending marketing money to attract buyers and photographers is worth a closer look. In the case of mostphotos what they are doing is somewhat unconventional...

read my full site review here


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