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Corbis, one of the leading image licensing companies in the world, now brings you SnapVillage - a user-generated image licensing marketplace! They offer royalty-free images at price points between $1 and $50. If you crave fresh and original images, illustrations and animations, SnapVillage is the place for eclectic, inspired – and affordable – imagery to set your project apart from the crowd.

With no upfront commitment or complicated credit packs, SnapVillage takes the complexity out of buying great images with a simple price philosophy – just one low price for each image, regardless of file size. And if you have a healthy appetite for images, you’ll save even more with a SnapVillage subscription.

Stock agency is not a rare thing any more so these guys will have a lot of job to do if they want to became serious player in this business.

Submission process is similar like on the other stock agencies. Before you begin you need to create your user account, enter your payment info (unfortunately they only accept PayPal) and you are ready to start uploading. Select up to 5 photos, illustrations and Flash animations at a time to upload. You can upload them as single pictures or upload them as sets. And if you have loads of pictures that you want to send and this five-at-a-time upload process is too slow for you, please mail a DVD or a CD at this address:

Team SnapVillage
Corbis Corporation
710 2nd Avenue, Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98104

If you like, you can add titles, descriptions and image tags so searching engines will be able to see them. Also don’t forget to upload Model and Property releases! Then submit and wait for their review staff to check your images. You will receive email as your pictures get published to the website. Or you check the status on your Portfolio page after you have set up an account.

Link to SnapVillage (new window)

EDIT: 26.6.2007.

SNAPVILLAGE FACT SHEET

SnapVillage, empowered by Corbis, combines the best features of consumer photo-sharing websites with an
online marketplace to create a distinctly better place to buy and sell affordable royalty-free photography.
SnapVillage is a fresh approach to microstock with a clean, intuitive website, straightforward pricing and
purchasing as well as innovative interactivity features that generate its proprietary “Snappyness” picture ratings.
SnapVillage features the revolutionary ‘Pick Your Own Price’ model that gives photographers control and flexibility
so they can maximize their income. To join the growing community at SnapVillage.com or bring fresh ideas to
creative projects, go to http://www.snapvillage.com.
Currently available as a beta website, SnapVillage will be actively listening and incorporating customer feedback
and introducing enhancements to the website on a continuous basis over the coming months.

THE FRESH APPROACH OF SNAPVILLAGE

Pricing That Empowers Photographers: SnapVillage’s unique pricing structure gives photographers greater
control and flexibility in managing and maximizing their photography and income. The SnapVillage ‘Pick Your
Own Price’ model gives photographers the ability to set image price levels at five price points of $1, $5, $10, $25
and $50. Photographers are able to change prices on their pictures at any time. SnapVillage does not have
exclusivity requirements and pays a royalty rate of 30 percent across the board for all flat price image sales and
30 cents a download on all subscriptions sales. All photographer payments are made via PayPal.
Access to the Premium Market: As part of the Corbis network, SnapVillage can offer its contributors something
most other microstock sites can’t: potential access to the premium stock photography market. SnapVillage will act
as a ‘farm club’ as Corbis editors will be scouting SnapVillage to find great photographers who show the potential
to sell their work on Corbis.

Streamlined Image Submission: SnapVillage’s open submission process invites anyone worldwide, from the
hobbyist to the professional photographer, to submit images to SnapVillage’s website. Images will be processed
by the SnapVillage editorial team who will review the imagery before releasing them to the SnapVillage website.
Images may be uploaded directly through the Internet or by mailing a DVD to SnapVillage (address available at
SnapVillage.com).

Straightforward Pricing and Payment: SnapVillage makes purchasing images simple and easy. Photographs
can either be licensed individually or via a subscription. Individual images are available at $1, $5, $10, $25 and
$50, and there is the same flat price for all file sizes {Small (~3mb), Medium (~6-8mb) and Large (more than
10mb)}. In addition, SnapVillage offers a subscription at a cost of $199 for 30 days with a maximum of 750
downloads. All payments are conducted via credit card without cumbersome credit packs, tokens or other
complicated pricing schemes that require buyers to make upfront commitments. A small selection of free content
will always be available on SnapVillage to allow users to experiment with the website.
Simple, Superior Customer Experience: SnapVillage has a simple, clean, professional website that is designed
to be more interesting and easier to use. SnapVillage has put an emphasis on making the website intuitive for all
types of creative buyers, so that people with all levels of experience will feel comfortable using it.
“Snappyness” Score Uncovers Fun, Fresh Imagery: SnapVillage offers fun and useful interactivity features
such as community image tagging, saving pictures as favorites, commenting on images and sharing images with
others that allow users to communicate with each other and with the website in multiple ways, thereby enhancing
the experience of the entire community. Every image in the SnapVillage catalog has a living, breathing
“Snappyness” score based on a sophisticated and proprietary algorithm. “Snappyness” is a dynamic rating that is
driven by multiple measures of a picture’s popularity, including the number of times it has been viewed,
downloaded, “favorited”, commented upon, shared and purchased. The “Snappyness” rating ensures that
SnapVillage searches yield the freshest, best images.