Phototrade is offering a commercial platform that lets all types of photographers share and sell their photos. Here are the details:
Photrade.com (www.photrade.com), unveiled the first free one-stop consumer Web site where photographers can store, organize, share, protect and make money from their photos.
Photrade connects photographers, publishers and advertisers through a visual marketplace. With Photrade, photographers can share, protect and earn money from their images, web publishers can access free, legally licensed, beautiful photography and advertisers can reach and communicate with target audiences in a highly visual way.
“Anyone who loves taking and sharing photos should use Photrade,” said Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences. “Photrade’s new visual marketplace is designed to give photographers – photo enthusiasts, hobbyists and professionals alike – a comprehensive platform to consolidate everything a digital photographer needs all under one roof, while allowing them to protect and make money from their photos online.”
More than just another photo site, Photrade solves key photo licensing issues with online photo sharing today. With more than 46 million people in the U.S. sharing photos online in the last thirty days alone, (according to Media Mark research and intelligence) theft and misuse of photos is now as prevalent as the theft of music before iTunes.
Photrade has solved the photo licensing problem from two angles. First, Photrade has built an innovative protection platform that makes it more difficult to steal images. Second, Photrade provides simple, low-cost legal alternatives to use or purchase digital images.
Photrade’s innovative protection technologies give photo owners control over how and where their images are used online. These technologies include LinkFind, LinkBlock and custom watermarking.
In addition, Photrade has the most ways on the internet for users to make money from print and merchandise sales to selling stock photography licenses. Perhaps most exciting is Photrade’s patent pending Adcosystem. With this system, Photrade puts a highly contextually targeted ad in each photo when it is shared online, and that ad revenue is shared with the photographer.
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The ad-supported photos are then free to use by bloggers and publishers with the photographer getting paid for every click.“We offer a completely new model for digital photographers,” said Andrew Paradies, CEO & Founder of Photrade. “Our protection and money-making innovations put photographers and photo users on the same page. People can choose how, where, and at what price their photos are used.”
Added Paradies, “Large stock photo houses currently do not help the average photographer sell their photos online since they first have to first apply and get accepted. If accepted, they are not allowed to set the price of their own photos, and then only receive 20 or 30 percent of the sale rather than the bulk of the revenue.”
Photrade does away with the old model, giving both pros and amateurs the opportunity to set their own prices and make much more revenue. Photographers can use Photrade as their personal photo selling web site, selling old and new photos just as broad consumer retail sites like eBay helped you sell things in your attic. Since not every photographer wants to start a business, Photrade gives all photo owners the opportunity to share photos safely and be compensated if their photos are used by companies. As digital cameras continually improve, even amateurs are taking better photos. Now there’s a way for photographers from amateurs to pros to protect and make money from their photos.
About Photrade.com
Founded in 2006, Photrade is the first free photography Web site where photographers can protect, share, and make money from their photos. Photrade creates an entire photo marketplace within one site, bringing sharing, selling prints, selling stock and providing free ad-supported legally licensed image content all under one domain.
