Regardless of whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist photographer, extra cash is something that everyone needs as expenses like maintenance of photography equipment and travel to shooting locations are unavoidable.
So, how about displaying them online and turn your soft gold into some hard cash!? You just have to sell/display your images and earn commission whenever someone purchases license to use your photo(s).
Down below is my list of 5 Most Profitable sites to sell your photos:
1. SmugMug Pro
This is my personal favorite. SmugMug probably pays the highest commission in industry. Key Features:
- You keep almost 85% as profit
- You can sell stock photos and videos
- Receiving Payment— Paypal, ACH
- Through Refer-a-friend Program: If you refer someone to buy membership, both you and the person referred gets 20% off. Like, if someone purchases a $300 product or membership, he will get $60 off. Similarly, you will also get 60$ (same amount) off on future purchases.
- SmugMug’s Partner Program: Affiliate program for website owners to refer SmugMug to their audience. You earn 15% commission on all Annual plans. You can also enjoy benefits of dedicate management team that will assist you whenever you need any kind of help.
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2. Alamy
Alamy is a great place to sell your photos. Some features:
- You get 50% of the sale
- Alamy has paid over $180 million to their contributors
- You can sell stock photos, videos, vectors, illustrations and Live News
- Receiving Payment— Paypal, Skrill, Fund transfer to your bank account
- Great support service for contributors
- Through Global Distribution Network (30% revenue per sale)
- Sell images under some unique and novel scheme (50% revenue per sale)
3. Shutterstock
Shutterstock is highly popular among photographers and agencies across the globe. It is a great place to sell your photos after a little editing:
- Earnings depend upon License, Subscription and Earning-tier.
- Shutterstock has paid over $500 million to their contributors
- Great support service for contributors
- Receiving Payment— Paypal, Payoneer, Skrill, Check payments
- You can sell stock photos, videos, vectors, illustrations and Music
- Additional Revenue Options— Through Affiliate Program: 20% commission rate whenever a new customer makes a purchase.
4. 500px Prime
It might not be as good as others in this list. But still, 500px is quite popular among photographers for sharing/selling their stock imagery:
- You get 60% revenue of the photos sold
- You can sell stock photos
- Receiving Payment— Paypal, wire transfer, ACH
5. Adobe Stock
Who doesn’t know about Adobe?! Adobe is among greatest companies in photography industry. And its products are definitely worth considering.
- You get 33% of the sale (for photos and vectors) and 35% for video sales
- On Adobe stock, you can sell stock photographs, videos, vectors, and illustrations
- Receiving Payment— Paypal and Skrill
- You can also upload photos using Lightroom, Premiere, Bridge, etc.
- Excellent support service
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