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It looks like you're slowly, but steadily gaining momentum! I remember seeing your second report when you were making more like 1500. Well done! One thing th
by xiaoma 16y ago
It looks like you're slowly, but steadily gaining momentum! I remember seeing your second report when you were making more like 1500. Well done!
One thing that continues to amaze me is the performance you get from istockphoto. I always figured that with the number of people out there with digital cameras getting into photography that the prices would fall rapidly for this sort of thing. But it's remained a reliable earner for you.
- ovi256 16y agoSurprisingly, making well lighted, non-cluttered, non-amateurish photographs is something that takes more than having the right camera :) Everyone can download vi and Python. Not everyone can write good software.
- patio11 16y agoYou also have to understand what people who buy stock photos need. (Pretty girl in a headset, yes. Five coeds of a variety of races sitting in a circle on a lawn, yes. Black guy and white guy in similar suits shaking hands, yes. Ethernet cables splayed against a white background, yes. Still life of a banana and a yogurt cup? Probably not, regardless of how beautifully you can execute on that.)
- elliottkember 16y agoIf I were writing a health food article, I might disagree with your last example.
- ja27 16y agoSomething interesting about the iStockPhoto revenue is that it's almost entirely from content that's between 2 and 5 years old. It's hard to imagine a mobile app built today still generating significant revenue 5 years from now - without significant rework, porting, updating, etc.