Social Media has long been recognized as an effective tool for promoting websites and generating significant traffic. It’s no secret that many websites on the Internet receive a large portion of their visitors from social media rather than from search engines.

The iStockphoto photo bank in collaboration with the prestigious photo magazine Life has announced a new contest for photographers. They named this contest “Together” which translates to “Вместе” or “Unity” in Russian.

Today, I would like to dedicate this post to reviewing the news from stock photo agencies released over the last couple of months of the outgoing year and the one that has just begun. However, I will try to be a bit original in presenting the information since this is the first post of 2011. So, here we go:

A person visiting a new city often looks for beautiful spots even before checking into their hotel. They settle in and prepare to go out for a stroll. The tourist captures photos with their camera, already dreaming of showing their friends all the architectural masterpieces they’ve photographed.

Everyone who has already started working with stock photo banks and achieved a certain volume of work faces the question of how to speed up the process of uploading and attributing images to stock photo banks. This question becomes particularly relevant when you work with a large number of stock photo banks simultaneously.

In my previous note, I provided a brief overview of the photo bank BigStockPhoto, now known as BigStock, and promised to discuss the registration process for this photo bank and how to upload images to it. So, let’s get started!