
Yayimages (previously yaymicro) launched at the start of Jan 08. They added 500,000 images in their first year - quite an achievement for startups of that time.
Image subject quality is professional, and there are currently more than 10 million images to choose from, images can be purchased individually without the need to buy credits. Interestingly yaymicro have re-introduced a subscription offering after previously dropping it.
High resolution images command a price of $19.5 (single purchase) while the lowest resolution images are $1.95. Our price listed below is for the cost of one image at $5.80 - the nearest larger size to our yardstick 1200x1600 size (5 credit pack). As stated above there are no actual 'credits' but the multiple purchase packs bring the size of the extra-large images down with significant savings from $19.5 to $4 each.
Yaymicro selling points are simplicity and image quality, they certainly seem to deliver on this. Yay has floundered during recent years, but has being seeing active development since 2020.
Conclusion
Disappointingly, just handful sales for me in 2014/5, bumping Yay images out of the top 10 list. Although Yay have been trying with several restructures of subscription offerings over the past few of years, they seem to be struggling to gain market share. (seem to be losing market share!). They do offer an excellent 50% royalty on image sales
Apr 2021: Im currently looking at sales from the new relaunched yayimages.
I suggest you upload your images elsewhere for the time being.
Im not sure about this one?
CraigM (not verified) on Sun, 2008-06-29 04:19Response - Im not sure:
Steve Gibson on Fri, 2008-07-04 01:08