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10 mln of Images at Fotolia, Impressive Growth of Depositphotos and Other News in Monthly Report on September 1, 2010

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I am a publisher and entrepreneur in the stock imagery field. I focus on providing knowledge and solutions for buyers, contributors and agencies, aiming at contributing to the growth and development of the industry. I am the founder and editor of Stock Photo Press, one of the largest networks of online magazines in the industry. I am the founder of Microstock Expo, the only conference dedicated to the microstock segment. I created several software solutions in stock photography like WordPress plugins. Plus I am a recurrent speaker at Photokina Official Stage, and an industry consultant at StockPhotoInsight. I am passionate about technology, marketing and visual imagery.

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Updated 26 Jun, 2018

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Amos

I am a publisher and entrepreneur in the stock imagery field. I focus on providing knowledge and solutions for buyers, contributors and agencies, aiming at contributing to the growth and development of the industry. I am the founder and editor of Stock Photo Press, one of the largest networks of online magazines in the industry. I am the founder of Microstock Expo, the only conference dedicated to the microstock segment. I created several software solutions in stock photography like WordPress plugins. Plus I am a recurrent speaker at Photokina Official Stage, and an industry consultant at StockPhotoInsight. I am passionate about technology, marketing and visual imagery.

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Amos

I am a publisher and entrepreneur in the stock imagery field. I focus on providing knowledge and solutions for buyers, contributors and agencies, aiming at contributing to the growth and development of the industry. I am the founder and editor of Stock Photo Press, one of the largest networks of online magazines in the industry. I am the founder of Microstock Expo, the only conference dedicated to the microstock segment. I created several software solutions in stock photography like WordPress plugins. Plus I am a recurrent speaker at Photokina Official Stage, and an industry consultant at StockPhotoInsight. I am passionate about technology, marketing and visual imagery.

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As we have predicted in previous report Fotolia reached milestone of 10 million of images in August, 2010. Meanwhile it also holds the lead by number of added images and it's the only microstock to have positive percent of growth of added images compared to previous month.

By total number of images Fotolia is far ahead of its nearest pursuer — Dreamstime. As well as Shutterstock is far ahead of Fotolia.

Also it was well expected for 123RF to pass iStockphoto by number of images. And now 123RF is in 4th place of our TOP-5 and judging by numbers iStockphoto will lose its 4th place for a long time. However its unique and exclusive content is still doing the great job.

The smallest stock agency, Depositphotos has the biggest growth of image gallery, just cause of too little number of images in its base compared to other microstocks. But it's worth noting that this “rookie” has more added images than one of the veterans, Bigstock. We'll see what'll happen next month.

As you can see from the table above the growth of added images is negative for everyone except Fotolia. In September, 2010 things can change drastically for many contributors will return from vacations.