We are based in Wellington, New Zealand, and will provide you
with GST receipts for all your purchases.
How can I pay for images?
Simply sign up and buy a PhotoToken! The
PhotoToken (PT) is like a library card that
enables you to 'join' the library. The price of the PT is
currently NZ$500 + GST, which includes an
annual service fee that enables you to download up to 500
images during the next 12 months. After one year, you can let
your token lapse, or you can keep it active by paying another
annual service fee. Doing so will enable you to download another
500 images over the following year. You can keep your tokens
active for as many years as you desire by paying an annual
service fee every 12 months.
What if I need lots of photos?
Pay once and receive lifetime access to images in our PhotoToken
library. Buy more than one PhotoToken if you require more than
500 images each year or have multiple clients. For standard
images, each PhotoToken you buy enables you to download and use
up to 500 images per year, and that number grows each year as
the total number of images in the library grows.
What if I need an exclusive licence or a custom image?
No problem. If you have a PhotoToken, you can choose to use it
to market-freeze a photo for 3, 6, or 12 months.
You can also submit a custom request and we will ask our
photographer-members if they have the photos you need.
I bought a PhotoToken but don't need images any more. How can I
deactivate it?
Simply contact us at
[email protected]
and we will deactivate your PhotoToken. When deactivated, a
PhotoToken cannot be used to download photographs from the
library.
Please note, PhotoTokens automatically deactivate after one year
if the next year's service fee is not paid by the anniversary
date.
What is restricted under your licence?
We have removed all unnecessary hurdles, fine print, and hidden
comprehensive add-ons to make it easy for photographers and
image buyers to understand how images can be used.
You can use photographs from the Excio Image Library in any
project or campaign except re-selling images as your own or
using them on products where the photograph becomes the main
revenue-driving component (eg, on a T-shirt).
Under the Excio licence, you must not use an image in any way
that is pornographic, offensive, racist, or ethically or
culturally offensive. Images containing any person or logo,
without a Model Release, must not be used for political
endorsement.
PhotoTokens
What are PhotoTokens?
A PhotoToken (PT) is a digital asset for accessing digital
imagery.
PhotoTokens enable the exchanging of stock imagery between
photographers and buyers.
PhotoTokens:
are issued and administered by Excio
are earned by photographers for uploading images to the Excio
Image Library (excio.io)
are bought by customers for downloading and using those images
from the Excio Image Library
How can I buy a Photo Token?
To buy aPhotoToken simply log in or sign up and click the
'Purchase PhotoTokens' button. Image users can purchase a
PhotoToken for $500 (excl. GST). Each PT provides non-exclusive
access to all images in the Library. Buying the token means you
can download a set number (starting at 500) of photographs every
year.
What happens if I don't use all 500 photographs in a year?
PhotoToken access operates with only a maximum annual download
limit (currently 500). Unused downloads expire on each
anniversary of your purchase, should you choose to keep your PT
active.
Do I need to pay for my PhotoToken every year like a subscription?
No, a PhotoToken is different to a subscription. Instead of
paying the same fee every year, you pay one purchase price and
then, if you wish to keep using your PT, you pay an annual admin
fee to keep the PT active. This fee is calculated by multiplying
the number of images in the library by 0.05%. For example, if
the library contains 100,000 images, the fee will be $50 per
active PT. This admin fee is capped at $200 per year and this
cap won't be reviewed before the library contains 500,000
images.
Photographers
How can I submit my images for sale in the Excio Image Library?
Photographs offered for sale in our library are supplied by
members of the large and growing
Excio Photographer Community. Find out more about membership and join ! Please note that
images are currently by invitation only as photographs go
through AI checks and a manual approval process before appearing
in the marketplace.
How can I earn PhotoTokens?
Learn more about selling your photographs with Excio
here.
You are welcome to submit your work for consideration, and we
will get back to you as soon as we can.
How will my images be used?
Take a look at our licence agreement
here. In a
nutshell, image buyers can't re-sell your photographs, use them
on merchandise, or use them in any way that is pornographic,
offensive, politically endorsing, racist, or ethically or
culturally offensive.
What are your requirements to submit a photo for sale?
We don't ask you to have a fancy DSLR camera or provide
exclusivity. All we ask is that the image has a minimum of
3000px on the short edge and, at that resolution, it has no
blur, pixilation or noise. You can upload images up to 30Mb in
size.
What if an image buyer wants a higher resolution of my photo?
If an image buyer makes a request for a high-resolution file, or
wants to source similar photos, we will contact you and
negotiate with you directly.
FairShare Photography
What is FairShare Photography?
FairShare Photography is paying photographers fairly for their
high-quality work and effort.
Why are other platforms not fair?
Stock imagery is big business. Images are a core tool for media,
advertising, and marketing of all kinds, and today's global
market is around NZ$7 billion.
Given the size of the market, you would think that photographers
make a good living selling their photographs online via
platforms like Shutterstock and Getty Images.
But you would be wrong.
Our market research on stock image libraries - backed-up by the
first-hand experiences of hundreds of photographers in our
community - showed that, on average, only 25% of a
photographer's images sell, and of those that do, the
photographer receives just 25 cents per image, per download.
What this means is that a photographer who goes to the huge
expense of taking 1000 professional-quality photographs and
uploading and properly tagging each photo, would receive only
$65 - or less than 7 cents per photo - if 25% of the photos were
sold once. To come close to recouping the cost of time,
equipment, travel, and possibly models, the photographer would
need those photos to be resold 1000 times or more.
Today, making a living from stock imagery is all-but impossible
for 99% of photographers. Only a few per cent of the $7 billion
ends up with the photographers, who are the creatives upon whom
the industry depends.