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I appreciate that initially you need photos and maybe that is why the site is geared as it is, but what you really need to be testing is if you can sell the pho
by DirtyAndy 16y ago
I appreciate that initially you need photos and maybe that is why the site is geared as it is, but what you really need to be testing is if you can sell the photos, will people come to you to buy them.
I'd assume the "cell phone generation" is a slightly younger mix, one person telling someone else that they managed to top up their phone credit this month from the money made from selling cell phone pictures is going to be all the advertising you need, could be very viral in that regard.
But marketing those photos to potential buyers is probably where the hard work begins, and in my opinion your site says nothing to point me in the direction of buying photos, what I could use them for etc. iStockPhoto, Getty Images and the like don't target photographers on their homepage, they target people who use photos and you need to do that to.
Awesome idea though, I really like it, I can really see how you can make money from it and how people might find it useful. Being able to geotag and search against that would be amazing too - concerts, riots, natural disasters etc etc. Good luck. (Future feature, let Twitter trends create a list of "Photos we need now" so that when photographers come to your site they know what bloggers might be looking for).
- simonsarris 16y agoI agree that finding buyers will be the big thing here. I suspect a large, untapped market for this sort of thing for local newspapers as the buyers. Make sure there's good local search. Photos of a fire in the town, or some store's opening, or any other impromptu news-worthy event will be captured via cameraphone before reporters hit the scene and these photos will be of good worth to the local papers.
- dho 16y agoWhy should local papers use your service when they can ask their readers to send them the photos directly? At least here in Switzerland there are already newspapers doing this.
- DirtyAndy 16y agoNews breaks, you write an article and you go to this site and find a photo for your article and post article with photo. Or you post the article with a message (like BBC does too) saying "Are you there, send photos etc", go back update the article with someones photo etc. Yes I know readers will automatically send some photos in, but a live stock library is a really good idea to complement readers photos (and whilst I might send a photo to the BBC, my local paper is pretty low down my list - I appreciate that differs on quality of local though).
- mvalle 16y agoI suppose getting the GPS co-ordinates would help the local search. Most modern smart-phones have GPS nowadays, and I believe that they GPS co-ordinates are embedded into the images.