DepositPhotos (http://depositphotos.com) the new photobank is open.
At present the photobank is working in accumulating state, photographer's promotion program is running.

To take part in the Photographers promotion program it is required to pass the exam and then perform activation in the Promotion tab. After that, money will be added to the account for each accepted image. Info: http://depositphotos.com/promo.php

The nearest plans cover launch of other language versions of the site and actions for customer attraction. Expansion of upload ways is announced.


Strengths:

• The promotion program - $0.20 per each accepted image (on 500 images);
• Convenient uploading and attributing, autofeeling by the previous attributed file. Mass autofeeling (to a file group), as well as piece;
• Author commissions is 44 to 60%;
• Cash request is starting from $50. Money received upon the promotion program may be ordered without any limitations;
• Money transfer systems are PayPal, Moneybookers, Webmoney;
• Detailed statistics of image sales and views

Customer offers:

A unique tool set for purchasing maximizes customer audience:

• Credits;
• Subscription;
• SMS-payments;
• The on-going offer "a second image as a gift" (moreover, authors of bonus images receive royalty like for a general purchase).

The photobank features:

• There is a symbolic exam of 5 images;
• At registration, a document proving identity (a domestic or foreign passport, driving license etc.);
• A free bonus image for a piece purchase; moreover, both the author of the sold and bonus image receive the royalty;
• Separate registration for authors and customers;
• The royalty size depends on the quantity of sold images.

welcome to the jungle

Good luck with the site.  Nice to see you are taking an aggressive roll in getting photos online (paying for uploads) and that you obviously have proper funding for things like advertising.

It is definitely nice to see the phone sales.  I don't know of any other site that offers this directly.  I believe Corbis has some back end deals with some phone companies providing imagery and it seems to be big business.

but then we did get money for doing very little! 

Not to sound like an eternal pessimist, but, I recall Albumo doing a similar offer.

Does history repeat itself?

A.

Fotolia paid for uploads too.  It worked for them

I think the biggest challenge is, well, their competition. Fotolia was the last site to 'really' make it.  It will be interesting to see if anyone else can rise up in the next years.

Interesting site.  I was having a look at the whole registration and upload process and it talks about gaining "inspector loyalty" through quality image submissions. I found the wording quite curious and was wondering if it's an indirect refrence to inspectors playing favorites or giving preferencial treatment to established contributors versus new contributors?

I'm fairly new ,sounds that way to me.

I mean no offense at all by this post.

But I find it strange that DepositPhotos is a US company, yet reading the website (or the OP's post here) it seems clear to me that it is not created by a native English speaker. Of course, there are plenty of non-native English residents in the US (I'm married to one!), but I would have thought that they would hire a native English speaker to write the English portion of the website.

I wish DepositPhotos well, and I admit the $0.20/image accepted makes it a bit enticing. But given my disappointment with my sales at SnapVillage / Veer, backed by the power of Corbis, it's hard to get enthusiastic about any new site.

$0.24 or $0.30 per sub sale sounds terrible, but I am very happy to see the size is limited to < 5MP. I'd accept subs much more readily if they all had such size limits.

EL commissions seem a bit low to me, but they don't happen often enough to worry about.

I was unable to find the definitions of XS, X, M, L, XL, XXL, and XXXL, other than L = ~5MP. $1.32 commission for that is a bit on the low side:

4-5MP
123: $1.02-$1.50
BigStock: $2.00
DT: $0.96-$1.80
FT: $1.60
IS: $2.28-$3.60
SS: $2.48
StockXpert: $2.00-$2.50

I suspect the other commission rates are a bit low, too ($0.22 for XS certainly is). But that's the consequence of having low prices to attract buyers!

Good luck!

I mean no offense at all by this post.

But I find it strange that DepositPhotos is a US company, yet reading the website (or the OP's post here) it seems clear to me that it is not created by a native English speaker...

I noticed that too, even in the membership agreement.  That puts me right off, I will wait and see if they fix all the errors.  If it wasn't for my experience with albumo, I would give this one a go but I am much more wary now.

Quote from: DepositPhotos/EN on November 11, 2009, 09:17

To take part in the Photographers promotion program it is required to pass the exam and then perform activation in the Promotion tab. After that, money will be added to the account for each accepted image. Info: http://depositphotos.com/promo.php

The link doesn't work!

This one does:
http://depositphotos.com/pages/promo

And it's quite obvious that the Photographer's Tutorial was strongly "inspired by" the same document on iStock's website