There was a recent article from stock photo expert Jim Pickerell (paid subscription service) dealing with image counts at a variety of microstock Web sites.

Interestingly Fotolia has recently culled a significant number of images that have not sold for the previous 18 months (about 1 million). On the other hand sites like Istockphotos and Shutterstock continue to add photos without culling.

In contrast our Stockxpert.com has fewer images than the aforementioned sites. Part of the reason for this is that Stockxpert started in business after these competitors. However their is a different philosophy behind the scenes at Stockxpert. And that is the desire to have the highest quality microstock imagery in the world. We could easily add 25,000 or more images per week but tend to only accept about 12,000 per week. This quality issue is well known by contributors who tend to complain about the higher standards of the Stockxpert acceptance philosophy.

I believe that in coming months and years our quality approach will payoff as more and more customers will seek out our quality offerings. In the meantime we now have about 700,000 quality microstock images. Check out the difference.