Startup Idea: Automated Image Submission Software for Stock Photography Agencies
I am an professional photographer. I take photographs of various objects, things and places and submit the images to about five different stock photography agencies online.
Every time an image is downloaded, I earn a small royalty. Before I can submit my work to each agency for review, I need to add data, specific to each image, according to each agency's criteria.
For example, one agency may require that I write a 20 word description of the image, then add 50 relevant search term keywords.
Another agency might require a title for the image, a description, and up to 75 keywords.
Although I can add some of that information to the image while editing it in Photoshop, it is extremely time consuming and, often, "one size does not fit all" and needs to be adjusted each time I submit that image to a different agency.
In a dream world, I would LOVE it if someone created software that was intuitive and could add the relevant information to an image and automatically upload the image to an agency, with the specific details each agency requires.
For example, I drop 50 images of horses into the software, tell it the images are to be uploaded to Shutterstock, and the software adds the required data and automatically uploads the 50 images to Shutterstock.
At that point, I would just log into my account and actually submit the images for review. Then, of course, I could drop the same images into the software and advise it to prepare the images for the next agency.