Yay Images – update
I mentioned that I had been submitting more of my images to Yay Images since they seem to be revitalizing themselves under a new leadership. I had seen some $0.05 sales in my account, which seemed to be very different to what they were promising and so I asked their Director of Marketing why that would be. Here is his full response:
We have a variety of sales models, as we have recently refreshed the website we have also refreshed the sales model and some customers are on legacy plans we no longer offer. Right now we are offering:
Images:
Single image sales $4.99 (extended license $29.99)
Subscriptions image sales ($0.50 – $0.80) per image
Credit packs (Coming soon, about $0.70-$0.80 per image
Legacy plans include the Max plan – high volume customers purchasing 1000 images for $99 ($0.10 cents per image, which is probably the $0.05 sales), Streaming – Previously $9 per month for unlimited “Streaming” where customers can use the image URL on their blogs. We recently raised their rates from $9 to $29 and phased out new customers on this plan.
Videos have been recently launched and will be available for sale soon. Please see a preview here, https://yayimages.com/videos?phrase=business
Videos:Single Sales:SD: $49 HD: $59 4K: $149
Credit Packs:(Coming soon, pricing to be discussed)
Subscriptions; will not be offered for videos. We see customers who do not want recurring plans and contributors do not want low payouts of subscriptions, so it makes sense for us to avoid subscriptions.
We are offering 50% commissions to contributors on all of these sales models, though we still have some legacy customers on old plans that we are phasing out.
He also said that they were being inundated with new contributors and the image FTP system has crashed under the load. The video one is a new design on the Amazon cloud and holding up, but they are working hard to resolve the image issues. Incidentally, I found that at the moment, Stock Submitter only supports photos for upload and it doesn’t actually submit the images – just uploads them. For videos I have been using an FTP program and uploading to intake.yayimages.com. You can go to that site using your FTP program and create a new folder called Releases and then upload your releases into that folder. Then when you upload a csv file with keywords, descriptions etc and that references a release, then their system applies the keywords, description etc, and also adds the release. You can also select these releases manually via the video submission page on YayImages. Once you have uploaded a release, you can select it manually for a new video upload.
If you are interested in joining Yay Images for the 50% commission on reasonable prices, please use my referral link here if you don’t mind.
Interesting reading can’t wait to see videos go live on the website and start selling. And nice that those prices seem fair too
Don’t get very excited about Yay, I uploaded the same images that I have on Shutterstock. I joined them in 22/03/2016 and all I have sold there in 4 years is $4.08.
I know – and I hope I made that clear in the first post I did. But you never know – Canva started with very little and that has grown into a big presence in the industry
Steve
Thank you for the insights, very much appreciated.
Thanks for info. Registered using your referral link if you don’t mind 🙂
I don’t mind at all! Thanks!
Nice to see the videos online, I see mine in there too! Any indication when videos will be available for sale?
I’m not sure – I think they are launching this coming month
In about 1 year, with
Rejected (4)
Approved (15312)
Lifetime Earnings $ 5.24
Last 30 days $ 0.30
Yes – that isn’t a good sign, but maybe they have plans. I’m not very hopeful, but you never know!
Everybody have plans… the problem is what kind of plans
But the subscriptions are very bad for contributors.
Might be there will be not that many big buyers like on SS and others, but only the possibility to get only 5 cent, is a sign, that yay goes the same bad way.
Or did I missunderstood something? Hopefully!
Yes, they do, although they offer 50% commission. I don’t see how you can avoid that with any agency to be honest, and as I have written about before, I’m more interested in the total income I get, rather than what each image sells for. I know not everyone agrees with that, which is fine, but I don’t believe that a few contributors boycotting a specific agency will make it change in any way. The market is being driven down by free stock sites I believe and it is hard to see what will stop that.
Steve
I fear, you are right.
Luckily it is a Hobby for me and not a necessary income.
But let’s hope, you are wrong. Hopefully.
As the US president might say – it would be good to be wrong just once in my life….