As a Digital Artist you may currently upload your Assets to many sites, spending lots of hours preparing and uploading, often different sites require different formats, and you receive different amounts of revenue per download per agency, your sales are paying for all the free space given away to other Artists, we think it is time for a new logistics model, one where you the Artist controls your assets until a transaction has taken place, our goal with this model is for you the Artists to
- Upload once to your own online storage space
- Have easy tools to set all the required attributes
- Set your own fair prices with price bands
- Be able to submit just once to a single search engine
You are likely thinking that this is just another Agency and uploading will be a waste of time, but this is a different model and we are not an Agency but a Search Engine, we will take just the image data that you submit, to enable keyword searches from registered buyers, all transactions will be directly between the Artist and the Buyer, the purchase could be through an Agency or direct, but the price paid to you will be the one that you the Artist has set against the image.
How this works is quite simple, the Artist will use space provided by us in our Amazon S3 space, or their own Amazon S3 web services to upload their images and data to, this now gives the artist a cheap online backup for their images and Digital Web Logistics access to the Image Information.
Unlike the Agencies it is not a free service, there is a small cost to every Artist but only for their own storage and transactional usage, this offers a much fairer model where 100% of any sale can go direct to the Artist, as everyone pays their own way, as an Artist you will pay for your own storage and transactions, but these are just micropayments based just on use there are no joining, monthly or flat fees paid the Digital Web Logistics just transactional fees, as an example storage of 140 full size images is about $0.18 a month.