Zooomr ist eine eine Photo Sharing Website mit vielen interessanten Funktionen und Möglichkeiten.

Der Basis Account ist kostenlos und bietet unlimitierten Speicherplatz und unlimitierten Trafic.

Ein Pro-Account ist für $ 19,95 pro Jahr erhältlich. Er bietet Werbefreiheit und erweiterte Zipline-Funktionen (eine Zooomr-interne feed-ähnliche Funktion).

Das eigene öffentliche Portfolio ist unter der Adresse http://de.zooomr.com/photos/eigener -accountname/ zu erreichen.

Ein Printservice und die Möglichkeit, Downloads zu verkaufen, sind derzeit noch nicht implementiert, aber geplant. Siehe dazu weiter unter die Infos zum Zooomr-Marketplace.

Zooomr besteht seit 2005, hat aktuell einen Google Pagerank von 4 und einen Alexa Rank von 11.933.

Spannend ist der geplante Zooomr-Marketplace:

1. What is Marketplace?

Zooomr believes that the next wave in stock photography belongs to all of us. In the past you used to have to be a Pro photographer to sell your photos for commercial use. Big companies dominated this industry and the little guy didn’t really have a place to sell photos online for a fair price. With Zooomr you can list a price to sell your photo for (anywhere from $5 to $1,000). The first step will be for us to build a library of these images for sale. That’s what we are doing right now. In the next few months we will be launching our marketplace site for photo buyers.

When photo buyers buy your photo, they are buying a royalty free license to use your image. They don’t own your image, you are simply giving them a license to use it commercially. You always own your own image.

2. How is Zooomr different than microstock sites?

Most microstock sites sell your images for $5 or less. We believe that your images are actually worth a lot more. Microstock sites (in our opinion) also don’t pay all that well. Some pay you as little as 20% of the proceeds of sale of your image. At Zooomr we’d like to redefine the relationship between photo buyer and photo creater (that’s you). We’d like you to get as much of the money as humanly possible. Because Zooomr needs to pay the expenses to run the site though we have to hold back a little for ourselves. To start with we are going to pay photographers 80% of the money that their images sell for (after our transaction cost with Paypal). We’ll keep 20% and try to run the site on that. Hopefully we can increase the payout for photographs to 90% soon if we can run the site on a 10% cut. Keep in mind that it is not our goal to get rich with our cut. We simply want enough to run the site. Zooomr was started by photographers for photographers. We will always do our very best to do right by those that choose to sell photos through Zooomr and give them as large a cut as we possibly can.

We hope that you will see that by paying out as much as we can we are advocates for all who wish to sell their photos online. And we hope that when we launch our photo marketplace for buyers that you will help spread the word that Zooomr is a place that people ought to buy their photos. If you know magazines or art directors or anyone on the creative side of things, pointing them to Zooomr will help us and you out.

Zooomr ist sicherlich interessant für alle, die viel Platz und Trafic für lau haben möchten.

Zooomr is free. There is no upload limit, bandwidth limit, download limit, file size limit, set limit, or number of photo limits. We believe in no limit photo sharing.

Dafür muß man dann halt Werbung in Kauf nehmen. Aber auch die $ 19,90 (heute knapp 13 €) pro Jahr für den Pro-Account sind ja wahrlich erschwinglich.

Die Oberfläche finde ich persönlich etwas strubbelig, aber das ist sicher Geschmackssache.

Zum Upload stehen ein HTML-und ein Flash-Uploader zur Verfügung. Andere Photo Sharing Websites bieten da mehr - aber nicht zu dem Preis.

Grundsätzliches zu Photo Sharing Websites, eine Entscheidungshilfe entsteht hier.

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