The Pixmac microstock agency is proud to announce that we now offer 7 million stock photos for our customers. Only a few competitors can say the same. Our collection consists of 3 sources. Two are creative and one editorial called “Celebrity”. Pixmac is the fastest way to get a stock photo or illustration for your design for a price that might surprise you.

When the pink company launched its marketplace in September 2008 it might have seemed like just another microstock company that is trying to make it. But look how much we have grown in a year! Pixmac has partners in 9 major markets and its sales are growing faster than expected.

Our company is  growing faster than other competitors in the microstock market according to respected site Alexa.com and  the amount of pictures grows with it. Not only that, Pixmac invented the “One Stop Shopping” way to get inexpensive quality photos in a matter of seconds without need of registration. Lee Torrens, a well known microstock blogger, says: “I LOVE your one-stop-shopping idea! It has always been a missing element of microstock agencies…” Yes, Pixmac focuses on speed and user friendliness.

Pixmac offers a lot now and has more in the oven to offer our customers. For example, Pixmac is working with a University on a project that will change your searching abilities and will make searching quicker and easier. We are also adding another few million photos to the database soon and working on some nice stock photo searching tweaks.

This week we’re launching a new updated website together with features such as Moneybookers payment method which added with payments by PayPal and/or  Credit Card. Also we have included a popular feature that sorts search results by downloads or date.

Vitezslav Valka (CEO) comments: “I’m always thrilled to see our customers happy with the user interface. Everybody deserves an easy tool that just works. I’m watching everything that happens in the company and believe me, it’s better than Red Bull and Duracell together!”

And one last thing for insiders. Watch our Twitter for special offers!

30^th January 2009 – Prague, Czech Republic, EU–  Pixmac is starting a unique promotion – offering all contributors an opportunity to get money for their pictures even before they’re sold.

Great Opportunity for photographers!

From 1st February 2009, all contributors who upload their pictures on Pixmac will get a $500 sales guarantee for 2 years for every 500 approved pictures. If you want to get the cash immediately, you can choose the option to get $100 for every 500 approved pictures – before having had any sales. Portfolios preferred include high quality pictures with people or isolated objects on a white background. This unique opportunity lasts until 28th  February 2009.

Detailed conditions

The contributor can choose from 2 options.

First

$500 sales guarantee for 2 years for every 500 pictures uploaded and approved on Pixmac. This means that in 2 years Pixmac will give you $500 even if your sales are 0.

Second

$100 for every 500 pictures uploaded and approved on Pixmac immediately after the 500th picture is approved. This will be an advance payment on the first $100 earned on those pictures.  Pixmac accepts the risk of selling these pictures and in the event that no sales are made, the contributor will retain the money.

One last thing. If you are uploading these days, the process will propably take longer time to publish your pictures on Pixmac. We are making our best, but the number of pictures uploaded is high.

27th January 2009 – Prague, Czech Republic, EU – Celebrate the speed of Pixmac’s increasing users and photographers by guessing one number. You can win an iPhone or credits for free.

Starting today, we are running a Hit the Jackpot contest, open for everyone. Guess the number of pictures available on Pixmac on 1st March 2009 and win an iPhone! Or, if yours is one of the closest 1000 guesses, you could win a share of $10,000 bonus credits. And more – if any of your affiliates win, you’re a winner too.

As you may know, we are one of the youngest agencies in the Microstock market, but despite the crisis we are the most active one. Our picture database currently has 1.7 million pictures and we are working hard to expand this number to 3 millions in near future.

But we know that quantity is not the measure, so we are improving Pixmac every day, and it works! Let’s see some statistics: Alexa, the valued visitor statistics tool, shows that we’re growing faster than Yaymicro, Moodboard or Snapvillage (owned by Corbis). So stay tuned and be prepared for a change.

Don’t wait to be the one who wins the iPhone! Or if you’re just looking for the best partner to deliver low-budget pictures, choose Pixmac. You’ll get an easy-to-use interface, smart search with advanced features, partner program and more.

And, one more secret for you. If you know how to find promo codes on the net, maybe you’ll find some Pixmac discounts.

There are two new functions just launched. Affiliate program – a tool for friends of Pixmac and Advanced search – a tool for better searching.

If you’re the one who runs a website read more about Affiliate program on our website. Basically it’s a tool for you to share the power Pixmac has. If you put a link to your website or to a discussion forum, with the appropriate code it will bring you happiness. But lets stop just talking – what about some earnings? Yes, there are some.

And the Advanced search? Its a great tool which helps people with precise searching. Lets have alook on the Pixmac homepage. There it is. Just small text right under the search field. But when you open it, the strong search tool pops-up. If you are confident about what you’re looking for – this is a piece of ones and zeros that trully helps.

And one last thing. If the affiliate banners at Pixmac site are not enough for you. Here are some more

Selling stock photos is a hard work. If you love taking pictures it’s fun. But when the time comes to uploading and managing the images for selling, suddenly the hard part comes. At Pixmac that is history. Keywording is automatically for free.

When I was surfing the web to find out what people think about Pixmac, I found a discussion at Microstock Group website. The geeks with soon becoming professionals were discussing the keywording issue and were searching for solutions.

Actually, there are solutions

• Use software to use the keywords for more sites at once
• Pay the site for keywording
• Upload your pictures to Pixmac

The real reason behind this free keywording is the accuracy of the search. That is a benefit for both sides. As you are propably the professional in photography, we have a lot of experience in searching and setting keywords. So why distract your focus to anything else? Do your job better than before and leave the rest to Pixmac.

We at Pixmac want to be fair and open. Our primary target is to make a great tool for the photographers and the buyers. So feel free to contact us and ask. We need to know your needs to make Pixmac even better.

More in the discussion:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?topic=6286.0

Interesting point of view:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=5418674

Every day at Pixmac is an adventure. We are looking for new ways of how to satisfy Pixmac users. We already know that this is not the easy way, but we don’t want to be just a usual microstock agency. Pixmac will be the innovative & user-friendly tool always working for you.

To be honest, we have a pretty long list of things to include into Pixmac. But we also want to have the website clean and easy to use. So we have chosen a few big issues to solve. Below is the list sorted by our priority. If you think of anything else, feel free to comment this post.

1. More languages (Spanish, French, German, Czech)

As you may know, there are not just English speaking people as you are. That is why we started to translate Pixmac into more languages and we are still working on new ones. Watch the Pixmac website every day, they will appear.

2. Advanced Search (Addition for precise search)

Usually people don’t need it. But you know, sometimes there is a need for some tweaks. So we listened to our users and prepared a marvelous tool to make your search even better.

3. Subscription (Better prices for repetitive customers)

This is something for the buyers. People who need a lot of pictures usually deserve a better price. So we made this a reality in just a few months after Pixmac was launched. Isn’t it great?

4. Refferal program (Make money with us)

One of the most wanted feature of almost any microstock website is a referral program. It stitches the community together and offers the ability to make some money to everybody involved.

5. New payment methods (Phone, SMS, Debit Card)

We love the colors of the world. And we want to make those of you who don’t want your Credit Card to be exposed happy. That is why there are some new methods of payment prepared for you in our labs.

Prague, Czech Republic – Pixmac, the sharpshooter among young microstock picture agencies, announces the reach of 1 000 000 picture Milestone.The content makes a unique collection of high quality life style pictures available on Pixmac exclusively. Beside this, the collection contains a broad range of pictures of different subjects.

Moreover, offering free keywording for contributors, Pixmac aims to have professionaly keyworded pictures enabling to provide its customers not only high volume but especially easy search and relevant search results.