best stock photography websites

Hi

I and my partner would like to begin to earn some extra income doing “stock photography”.

We would like to ask you some questions about this.

(1) - which are the best/reliable sites - overall ?

(2) - which sites pay the best ?

(3) - as we do not want to waste our time submitting photographs just to have them rejected - which sites are more accepting - but at the same time have
their photographs downloaded the most often.

(4) - which sites are the most likely to be in business the longest (10 – 20 or more years)


Thank you very much Craig

Hi Craig,

We did a podcast (uploaded an audio file) on this exact topic with Andre Nantel who gave us amazing information. I think the podcast will give you what you want if you take a listen.

http://photography.ca/blog/?p=30

Feel free to subscribe as well - it's all free.

Good luck!

marko

I don't see any logic in selling photos to a stock agency. As a matter of fact,you could end up competing against your own work from a stock agency. If you diversify your photo business into posters, corporate presentations, small business advertising, informational folders, distributed flyers etc. then you can end up buying stock photos to fill in gaps and speed up your work, rather than selling to stock agencies.

Tegan