I've just been emailed by a new microstock site, called yaymicro, which is looking for contributors.
Any of you guys have already heard about it?

Best regards,
Diego

With a name like that, why would anyone NOT want to join??? 

They have been in touch with me too. You never know upfront whether they will be successful or not, but the good things are:

* they are macro-stock professionals
* they do have start capital
* they do have a plan and they don't rush to open "beta"
* they do listen to contributors very carefully

The main bad thing is that they are new while there are already quite big players around....

And one thing which I am not sure whether it's really bad or not is that they don't seem to have large enough start capital to plan for a massive marketing, but they plan selective targeted marketing. With the founders coming from macro-stock this could be not a bad thing if they already have a network of contacts in that market...

They are at the bottom of my list, but when I have some spare time (like a break at work between the meetings) I am uploading little by little.
P.S. LuckyOliver and Canstock are even lower in my list, so why not give Yay a try?

if i had just one image, it would make sense to join a site a day ...

Any of you guys have already heard about it?

Yap and I'd wish you would have kept it private for a while like all other people did here. 
Right now they work mostly on invitation till their site is 100%. No beta at all, but shock and awe when ready. Next week they'll put a referral program in place and it would have been better to announce it then. They will launch in June after they got 200,000 shots and when the site works flawlessly.

That's called the non-Snapvillage approach 

It's the site with the least number of clicks to upload I know of.
Very fast FTP, flawless.
Correct import of all IPTC fields, even "country" for those that use it.
Limit of 50 keywords.
Great MRF attach pop-up screen with model thumbs and checkboxes per model - fine for couple or group shots.
No categories: after FTP upload, one click on the completion page is enough to submit (easier and faster than Featurepics).
Review time of 5 seconds (last week).
They take editorial and I have the impression they are runaways from a large established Scandinavian editorial macro site.

Yay! have just signed up as I am going to pull the plug on a couple of no hopers!

It can never be worse than Albumo.
And they pay in Euros.

Just signed up and uploaded 11 images and they were accepted already in a matter of minutes. I shoot mainly wildlife and nature, hopefully they will do well there. I know its harder to make sales in that niche but that's what I enjoy doing.

Just signed up and uploaded 11 images and they were accepted already in a matter of minutes. I shoot mainly wildlife and nature, hopefully they will do well there. I know its harder to make sales in that niche but that's what I enjoy doing.

I was looking at your portfolio you have some nice images of wildlife. Are you a hunter?

Quote from: takestock on March 24, 2008, 18:33

Yay! have just signed up as I am going to pull the plug on a couple of no hopers!

It can never be worse than Albumo.
And they pay in Euros.

Albumo   5 months and 50 cents in sales with 300 images. I let them have the 50 cents and jumped ship. Didn't care about their "upload bonus" either. I'd be waiting until 2012 for any payout with the traffic they get. I dunno, there was just something that bugged me about that site. So being out is one less thing to worry about.

Yay Euros!

How different is this from the Canadian site, "WooYaymicro"?

Quote from: FlemishDreams on March 24, 2008, 18:15

Yap and I'd wish you would have kept it private for a while like all other people did here. 

Well said, when I got my email I was impressed that it was personally written and as a result I've uploaded there.

It would seem now that anybody can contribute, I just hope they maintain the site on a professional level, they've started out well and have a good marketing strategy and background.

For anybody that has joined as a result of seeing this thread I implore you to maintain a level of professionalism on this site, don't turn the forum into something like LO or FP which now come over as sites for amateur snappers, that will kill Yaymicro and we'll all lose out on any potential sales.

You know what kills Yaymicro?  "Yaymicro" - Thats just as bad a name as "Snapvillage" and/or "LuckyOliver". 

80/20 rule.  80% of your revenue will come from 20% of the sites (if not now, but eventually) - your time to upload to the remaining 80% isn't worth that 20% -

Very smooth indeed, and Norwegian... how can I resist? Gotta support those poor souls up there in the freezing north   

I'm in. First photos approved already. But how do I tell them that a photo is editorial?

when you are editing the info for an image there is a box where you change it from being 'artistic' to 'editorial'

80/20 rule.  80% of your revenue will come from 20% of the sites (if not now, but eventually) - your time to upload to the remaining 80% isn't worth that 20% -

That's what I'm finding too.