About Stock Photography - Part 2: other websites

As I started talking about stock photography and royalty free websites, I realized including all of them in one post will result in a too long article.

I mentioned the highest earning sites in the previous blog entry, so now I will focus on low earners and new websites which I can't yet evaluate.

• 123RF: a pretty slow earning website, but I like their very easy upload interface, it really doesn't take almost any time to submit images. The payout system is slow but automatic.
• BigStockPhoto: also one of the slowest earning websites, but it is also pretty easy to submit your content here. Not as easy as 123rf, you have to pick categories for each image. Sales happen rarely and the earnings are on hold for like 2 weeks, but if you check the website rarely, it is nice to cash out every now and then.
• CanStockPhoto: pretty much similar to BigStock, extremely slow sales, but they do happen.
• Crestock: not the site I would recommend to spend time with. Sales are close to zero. I uploaded some images a few years ago and then pretty much gave up on it. Reviewers are from my experience very harsh, refusing images which are top sellers for me on all other websites.
• MostPhotos: they don't seem to have any review system of what I can tell, you can upload as much as you want. They don't even check that you have model releases for your photos containing people. I don't think that is very good for them, they have kazillions of images. So of course sales happen like once a year. The do sell for Euros though. 
• ColourBox: listing ColourBox last because I am new there and I am not sure how well images sell. After my first uploaded batch I got a few downloads pretty fast, but only time will tell. The quality of the images on their website seems quite high.

There are of course many, many other stock photo websites out there, but none of them come to my mind now. I have accounts on a few others as well, like Featurepics or DepositPhotos, but it is really not worth going into the details of them here. 

One more thing worth mentioning: the TAX FORMS. All of these websites will require you to fill out a tax form before you get your payout. You have to do this for sites based in USA so that you won't pay a percentage of your incomes (which are already small enough). It's usually pretty easy to fill out, and they all have instructions on how to do it.