Lee Torrens has a post on his blog called Microstock Mash which looks at some of the emerging services in the microstock sector and we’re delighted that LookStat made the list. If you’re interested in microstock and you haven’t come across Lee’s blog, Microstock Diaries, yet – go there right now and subscribe. Lee’s a great guy and I learn something every time I visit his blog.
I also wanted to say a public thank you on the blog to Casey Zednick. He’s the CTO and also a founder of LookStat and the service wouldn’t exist without him.
Since we launched the LookStat beta, we’ve gotten some great early feedback from the microstock community. A couple of our early users (thanks Lee & Andres) have given me permission to publish their notes here.
Lee Torrens via Twitter
Loving LookStat so far http://twurl.nl/xhcito This this has AMAZING potential. Develop, LookStat team! Develop!!!
Andres Rodriguez in the Microstock Group Forum
Rahul it was great to meet you in person in NY at photoplus expo. I have had a look at the site and opened an account and it is unbelievable. The potential you have there for development is amazing, honestly. I can not wait until you have the full version running, any ideas on when will this happen?
We have a lot of work to do before we can realize the full potential of LookStat but early support like this is incredibly motivating.
Lee, Andres and all our other beta users have been very patient with the service’s rough edges and have given us a lot of helpful ideas and suggestions (and have gently pointed out areas where we are ahem doing a less than stellar job.) Thanks a ton to all of you. We’re working hard to keep things moving forward and every piece of input helps.
Dave Naffziger has a nice post about LookStat on his blog.
If you are a photographer, you’ll submit your images to multiple sites: the sites are non-exclusive, it costs nothing to submit a photo and it increases your chance of selling the photo (which can be sold multiple times). But tracking the performance of your photos is very challenging – you need to download data files from multiple sites, normalize them and then somehow link the photo-by-photo performance data from the different sites.
Rahul and Casey Zednick just launched LookStat, a must use application for serious microstock photographers. Not only do they aggregate the data from multiple sites, but they also do the very hard work of normalizing your data. That means that you can see how much a single photo is making across all sites.
We have a lot of work ahead of us before we attain essential status, but I’m confident that with input from our beta users and the microstock community, we’ll find a way to get there.
Thanks a ton for the mention Dave.