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Originally posted by Jayson
And you dont understand my point. There is no risk for you in doing a revshare or sponsor payment type thing on a hosted gallery. There is a big risk if you go and PREPAY IN CASH for 1000 TGP's to list your gallery.
There arent many people that will by content and pay for listings on 1000 TGP's - and if they do then good luck to them.
There are plenty of people who will risk a bit of hosting cost to provide a hosted gallery.
Therefore, there is far more chance of the hosted gallery scenario happening over someone actually prepaying for listings. Therefore more galleries get listed.
My point was content providers make those sort of assumptions when deciding how to license their content - its not like we dont know how other parts of the business work!!
Hosted Galleries are new and would not have been factored into content providers license agreements originally.
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Well I don't know how that "risk" issue matters in this context. besides that it's not "a bit of hosting cost".
And again, if I want to build 100 galleries with 15 pics I need to purchase 1500 pics at least (assume 1500 x $0.30 = $450).
Sell those 1500 pics to 20 different webmaster (20 people buying 75 pics each, again you end up with $450) and go sure that these pics get way more exposure than on an average hosted gallery program. The combinded effort of those 20 webmasters, some with submitter acounts, some newbies and 1-2 pro's with close relations to tgp owners, will be able to push their set of pics much more than the same pics on the hosted galleries.
Again, you are mistaken about the greediness of tgp webmasters, i.e that every hosted gallery out there gets a good let alone superb exposure. It just ain't so. A mildly successfull webmaster with 20 pics can outdo a hosted gallery with the same 20 pics any day