I’ve been mulling over how I should be licensing my work, up until now I have been using the built in licensing feature of 500px but I am moving over the Adobe Stock.
The main reason for moving is the tiny licensing fees that my images are earning, this huge reduction has coincided with 500px linking up with Getty Images. Since this link up my images sales earnings have plummeted by over 90%.
To give you an example, I licensed an image yesterday where my take of the fee is 60% of the sale price, that sound like a lot right? $0.11 is the 60% I was paid which is laughable, since the Getty Images link up not a single image sale has earned me more than $1, this can’t go on which is why I am withdrawing ALL image licensing from 500px.
I’m going to give Adobe Stock a try and see if they are any better.