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creators. Ahoj! It's time to talk about money. In today's video I want to talk about submitting
stock photos and videos to stock agencies. Not separately though because if you contribute to
many agencies this will take forever. I know that because I've been doing stock since 2007 and I
submit to Shutterstock, Getty, Adobe, Dreamstime, 123 Royalty Free and many, many, many others.
Now, I'm also a full-time Youtuber. One person production, one person does it all and
it's very difficult to explain how much time actually this whole Youtube takes unless you
really do it. You have to really do it to be able to experience it and to know what it takes. And I
haven't uploaded to stock for about two and a half years. I had to stop because I simply had no time
and I regret it. Especially now because I have so much great footage sitting on a hard drive and
so many great photos and it's collecting dust but I would like to collect some money because stock
for me it's a great side income. I have to have many different income streams to be able to do
this full time and that's one of them. Even though I haven't uploaded for two and a half years I'm
still making decent money from stock. So I've been looking for a solution, a service where I can
upload all the photos and videos at once to all stock agencies and submit it. Or even better, I
was looking for a service where I would literally dump all my photos and videos on their head and
let them deal with the rest. I mean, they would do all the keywording, meta data, description and all
that and submit it for me. I wouldn't have to do anything, just literally pass the stuff to them.
And I found few services. To some, this might be quite helpful depending on
how much help you are looking for. All these services offer something different.
And if you are new here, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If your passion is photography and video,
consider subscribing. Let's start with services for those who have the most time on their hand and
they also want to control everything. To services for those who have the least time on their hands
but they are willing to accept the fact that they will not have so much control over their files. Now,
all those services are going to be listed below in the video description, so you don't need to write
them down. Number 5 is Dropstock. This software is here to only help you with uploading your files
to multiple agencies. You can submit photos, videos and vectors. It doesn't help with the submission
process. That you have to do yourself. If your stock agency offers FTP access such as Shutterstock,
Dreamstime, 123 royalty free, then you can use the service. Dropstock says that it supports about
40 stock agencies. So how does this work? You will use your Dropbox account where you will create a
folder where you will be placing all photos and videos. You will get access to Dropstock to this
folder. Once you sync the new files, Dropstock will automatically upload it to all stock agencies you
enabled. It does save time because I used to upload via FTP to each agency separately and it was taking
forever. It is also helpful when you are traveling if you have a slow internet connection or if you
are limited on data. This will be one of the good solutions. They also offer free services such as
keyword suggestion tool, cvs batch keywording tool. Here you can upload your keywords with your files via
this cvs file. They also offer keywords research tool. So how much does it cost? 1GB of data
is free and it gets reset each month so you can try it out. If you need more data, you can purchase
starter pro or pro plus package which doesn't expire. This will give you either 0.20, 0.10 or 0.5 cents
per gigabyte. Number 4 is Xpiks. It's very much the same like Dropstock. It is software which allows
you to upload via FTP photos videos and vectors. However, they offer a bit more when it comes to
metadata and management of your files. First, let's look at the pricing. Basic is free, it doesn't come
with support, only access to community support. It is for one user, core features and limited files.
It doesn't specify what the limited files are. You can buy a pro license for one user for $29
and it is a one-time payment or pro for teams version which costs $199 and it's for 10 users.
So you don't have to pay for data transfer like with Dropstock. If you buy pro license,
you will get access to these features. Priority support, you have a question send it over to them.
Background upload, you can keep uploading as you are preparing or keywording more files, color
tag filtering, upload history, you can see where and when you uploaded files to stock agencies
so you don't run into duplicate uploads, settings sync, means that you can synchronize settings
between different computers. Import metadata into your old files from .cvs, you can also set the price
for videos during .cvs export if you end up adding a column with custom value. .svg files support, you
can organize your presets into groups, you can create custom FTP directories, you can restore
the last session on startup and batch delete keywords. Number 3 and 2 is Stock Submitter
and Microstock Plus because they were created by the same team and they actually also work together.
But first, let's talk about the Stock Submitter. Stock Submitter is a desktop software for Windows.
Mac users can use the online version. This service will allow you to do everything from one place, you
don't even need to visit each agency separately. You can upload photos, videos and vector files,
do all metadata here, submit them and even check approval and track your sales.
They have a quick metadata tagging system which allows faster processes and you can also save all
this for future files. OK, how much does it cost? Free option has 33 submissions a month, that means
that you can submit 33 files to agencies. So if you work with 10 agencies, you will submit 33 files to
all 10 agencies. Starter is 3.33 euro a month and it will get you 100 submissions. Light costs 6.66
euro a month and will give you 250 submissions. Casual is 13.33 euro a month and will get you
400 submissions. Professional is 30 euro a month and you will be able to submit 1000 submissions.
Unlimited costs 37.50 euro and you can submit unlimited amount of files. I've placed Microstock
Plus on the second position because if you want to still control your own keywords metadata and all
that, this could be probably the best service. It is very similar like the Stock Submitter but there
is still a bit of a difference. It is a combination of Microstock Plus with Stock Submitter. With Stock
Submitter you have to have your computer on at all times if you want to upload.
With this you don't have to. It is cloud-based service which is perfect if you are always on
the go or if you travel. You just upload it to them and they distribute it to all stock agencies.
The same applies here. You can check submission status of your photos, vectors and videos. See sales
and analytics and also use their trans prediction tool. OK, pricing please. This seems to be a little
bit more expensive, however you're gonna get access to both Microstock Plus and Stock Submitter. Free
account is the same and gives you 200 gigabytes free storage, it allows you 33 submissions a month.
Light plan costs 10 euro a month and you can upload 250 files. Casual plan costs 20 euro
and you can submit 400 files. Professional plan costs 40 euro and you can submit 1 000 files.
Now, all these plans only allow one account. If you need unlimited with two accounts, the
cost is 60 euro. For 6 accounts which are corporate is 150 euro and for 21 accounts
which would be studio it is 300 euro a month. To be able to access the trend prediction tool, you
need to buy this separately. 330 euro per novice, 664 pro and 20 euro a month for guru. If you need
to purchase storage, you can do that as well. 1TB a month which is Mercury for 10 euro
2TB which is Mars for 20 euro and 4TB which is Saturn for 40 euro. If
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so you can explore your creativity. Number 1 is Wirestock. Wirestock is quite similar to Blackbox,
except that Blackbox is only for video files, so I didn't include it here. Wirestock
accepts both photos and videos. They don't accept vector files. I placed it as number 1 as it is
for those who have absolutely no time to submit. Like I said before, it is for those who wants to
dump all files on them, let them do all metadata, keywords and all that. How much does it cost?
You are not going to pay anything upfront. You will have to share revenue with them, which means
that you are not going to pay anything unless you sell. Bbut once you sell, they will keep 15%
of your earnings. What you also need to keep in mind is that the files are not going to your
personal accounts. It is going to their account on 7 stock agencies. The stock agencies they
submit to are Shutterstock, Deposit photos, Dreamstime, Adobe Stock, Alamy, and 123
royalty free. You won't have much control over your files. You cannot delete them whenever you want to,
so if you're going to choose the service, just make sure you really reach the terms of services.
Well, what am I doing? It was very difficult to decide because I've done it for so long, I know how
important is to have control over your files especially if there are people in the shots.
Models tends to change their mind for whatever reason whenever they want to. So for that reason,
I prefer to have access to stock agencies. On the other hand I really have no time and I had to
re-think wisely financially mainly. Where would make the most sense for me to invest the most
time. So what I'm doing, I'm using Stock Submitter for the better stuff and for files photos and
videos where there are models in it. For the okay files which I really don't care about as much and
these are like the snapshots or whatever I'm doing on the go, I'm testing the Wire Stock. I want to see
if they're able to sell, how much they are able to sell, how it actually all works and all that.
I already have few videos and photos there and I'm curious to find out. Right now, I don't
have the answers. All links to these services can be found below in the video description.
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