Shareapic vs SharedImages

- For every 1500 shared images clicked in ShareAPic, you get $0.33
- Put Adsense in every of your shared images
- Support .GIF and other image formats
- Minimum payout is $20
- Have MassUploadTool
- Image thumbnails is bigger than of SharedImages
- Clean content policy (no XXX)
- Have to get new gallery approved

SharedImages
- You get $1 per 1500 shared images
- Does not support any Adsense
- Only support .BMP and .JPEG
- Minimum Payout is $5
- Upload your many images one by one
- Image thumbnails get much even smaller than the original size
- Permits XXX images
- No need approval

My review:
I personally prefer ShareAPic than SharedImages.
ShareAPic may pay much less than SharedImages for image views, but does not necessarily means that we can earn more from SharedImages. ShareAPic supports Adsense which may allow you to earn more, especially if any of your visitors clicked on the Adsense Ads. I once got $1.51 just in one day through my ShareAPic Adsense.
ShareAPic have nice looking proffessional layout, one aspect that i truly like very much, while i am not so impressed with SharedImages layout and most annoyed with the XXX ads displayed in every SharedImages pages that i visit.
(Both have the same 10% of referral’s earnings)

Got Pics? They’ll Pay You!

When it comes to making money online, there’s no question that revenue sharing is “where it’s at” right now on the Web. With video sites like Revver, and social networking sites like Yuwie, Internet users can now cash in on their own content and Web activity, thus, making money from the very things they used to do for free.

The most recent website to adopt the revenue sharing model is Shareapic. Shareapic allows the average Internet user to make money from the pictures he/she puts online, whether they be on MySpace, Facebook, eBay, in forums, etc.

And for us bloggers, it’s even more exciting. Why? Because we include pictures in our posts all the time. And now we can actually monetize them!

How Does Shareapic Pay?
Shareapic pays based on image views. What this means is that every time someone clicks to view one of your pictures anywhere online, or views a picture in one of your online galleries, you make money.

The Shareapic pay rate is simple: CPM of $0.22 to $0.25 (or rate per 1000 impressions).

Ca$h payments are made through PayPal, though you can also choose to be paid by gift certificate for places like: Amazon.com, Target, eLUXURY, etc. Personally, I’ll just take the cash, thank you very much!

Shareapic In A Nutshell
• Shareapic pays you to upload and store unlimited pictures
• Link them to blogs, MySpace, eBay, forums…anywhere
• Share them with family, even order prints of them
• Upload unlimited pictures
• No file size restrictions
• Create unlimited galleries
• One click posting to MySpace, WordPress, Blogger, Hi5 and more

But wait! That’s not all! LOL.

Make Money From Other Peoples’ Photos
Shareapic also pays you for referring new users. Each time you refer a new user to Shareapic, you earn 10% of their image views as well – forever. Shareapic offers several link and banner codes that you can use to invite new users.

In my experience over the two weeks, the sign up rate has been pretty impressive. I credit this to the fact that Shareapic appeals to just about every Internet user out there, is completely free, and is incredibly simple to use.

Additional Traffic To Your Photos
Shareapic also includes a variety of built-in options to help you generate even more traffic to your pictures and picture galleries, creating that much-loved viral effect.

Digg: Each picture gallery page has the “Digg This” submit button built into it. As we all know, Digg.com can be an awesome source of traffic. If someone Diggs your gallery or picture(s), then other people on Digg have an opportunity to look at it (and Digg it as well).

Social Bookmarks: Each gallery page includes a bookmark button that allows people to post your gallery to their own pages on their social network profile, blog, personal page, etc. Here are the bookmarking options:

Link to it!: Each individual picture has a “Link to it!” option that allows people to link directly to your photo. This automatically generates the HTML code necessary for it to be posted on a blog or website, in forums and on message boards, and in Email or instant messages.

Share on Facebook: Each individual picture also has a “Share on Facebook” option that allows people to add your photos right to their Facebook pages!

Each of these are excellent when it comes to generating traffic and will definitely serve to boost your Shareapic earnings. Bottom line, more views = more $$$.

Keeping Photos On Your Own Server
If you’re like most website owners, you like to keep your pictures on your own server in order to keep a handle on how your pages load. No problem. Here’s what I do…

I upload the pictures to my blog, just like I would ordinarily do when including pictures in a post. Then I upload to Shareapic, copy the picture URL, and link it to the picture on my blog. This way, I can be sure that my pictures will always load the way I want them to, while earning money from them as well.

Overall Shareapic Conclusion
So far, I’m quite pleased with Shareapic. I’ve always used photos in my posts here on this blog, and now I can make some money from them as well. Shareapic is a really nice way to monetize content on your site without taking away from the quality of it.

As for issues, the only thing I’ve noticed is that due to the rapid growth they’ve experienced, the site has been a wee bit slow on occasion, though I haven’t noticed that recently. But other than that, it’s definitely two thumbs up for this one.

What Is Photo Sharing?

Photo sharing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user’s digital photos online, thus enabling the user to share them with others (whether publicly or privately). This functionality is provided through both websites and applications that facilitate the upload and display of images. The term can also be loosely applied to the use of online photo galleries that are setup and managed by individual users, including photoblogs.The first photo sharing sites originated during the mid to late 1990s primarily from service providing online ordering of prints (photo-finishing), but many more came into being during the early 2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralised access to a user’s photos, and in some cases video clips too. This has resulted in different approaches to revenue generation and functionality amongst providers.While photoblogs tend only to display a chronological view of user-selected medium-sized photos, most photo sharing sites provide multiple views (such as thumbnails, and slideshows), the ability to classify photos into albums as well as add annotations (such as captions or “tags”) and comments. Some photo sharing sites provide complete online organisation tools equivalent to desktop photo-management applications.Desktop photo-management applications may include their own photo-sharing features or integration with sites for uploading images to them. There are also desktop applications whose sole function is sharing photos, generally using peer-to-peer networking. Basic photo sharing functionality can be found in applications that allow you to email photos, for example by dragging and dropping them into pre-designed templates.Photo sharing is not confined to the web and personal computers but is also possible from portable devices such as cameraphones, using applications that can automatically transfer photos as you take them, to photo sharing sites and photoblogs, either directly or via MMS. Some cameras now come equipped with wireless networking and similar sharing functionality themselves.The same technology that allows digital photographs to be shared can be used for other electronic image formats. This can include computer-generated art or scans of hand-drawn artwork or photographic prints just as easily as it can include digital photographs. Even though ‘image sharing’ is a more general term and would include photo sharing as a subset of the available options, the term ‘photo sharing’ is more widely known.

Shareapic and Share in the Revenue

The number of people looking to make a quick buck on the Internet continues to grow by the second. A tactic that more and more startups are attempting to employ (though many have not been successful) is allowing casual Web users to earn money by doing things they’ve always done. From searching the Internet (goodbye, AGLOCO) to writing blogs (hello, Helium), the number of passive revenue streams are endless. Shareapic is hoping that you’ll use them to host your images. As an incentive, they’re willing to pay YOU, the user.

Since sites like Photobucket and Flickr have dominated the photo hosting market, Shareapic is willing to share their advertising revenue in ratio with the number of image views the files you upload receive. So how much coinage does that equate to? Here’s how the math works out:

Let’s say hypothetically that in January Shareapic deems $5,000 as the amount they will share with registered users. They will take the number of total image views to determine the pay out per view. So if there were 5,000 photo views, that would mean $1 per view. That’s wishful thinking. The numbers will likely work out to a fraction of a cent. However, if you use the service for all of your social networking images, the cents can add up to dollars. We’ve also read that the site will pay $0.22 per 1000 pic views.

It’s amazing that file hosting has gone from a pay-for-space business model to a we’ll-pay-you-to-use-us model. This could be a glimpse into the future as newcomers look to shake users away from the old standbys.

Registered users can choose to receive payment via Paypal or by getting a gift certificate to Amazon, Target and others.

What are you waiting for. The number of images you can upload is limitless. And so is the potential income!

Make Money online with Shareapic

While i was touching lately on Making money online with video programs like Flixya and MediaFlix. There is a group of people that i have neglected, and those who are in the picture industry deserves something to talk about.

Since i am a ebay user as well, i make full use of photos which are uploaded to ebay so that my item can sell with much confidence through the photos placed. Normally you get like 10,000 viewers on a particular item that you are selling, and just imagine if are paid per 1000 views at $0.22 then 10,000 would make up to $2.20. With that amount, you can pay for your ebay fee and even get a feature spot for your item.

Shareapic is not new in this pay per view industrial, and currently with 53,000 users sharing over 200,000 pictures. You might have missed out using one of the easiest paid picture program. Shareapic does not give you a limit to how much space you can take up in their server, so unlimited hosting of your picture with shareapic and did i say they pay you in 7 days when you reach $20 and there is proof that payments are always made in shareapic forum.

I am already part of shareapic for the past 2 weeks and i have chalked up $12, i am closing in to my first $20 payout, you may want to join shareapic with me and remember sharing pictures is never about just hosting and presenting, its about making money too!

Integration revenue sharing with Adsense
Shareapic is part of the Google adsense revenue share, but it’s not disclosed how much they are sharing with the users, but they have a function to include your adsense PUB-xxxxxx into the page where your picture and ads will show together. Generate revenue with adsense and one of the way is through adsense revenue sharing.

Creating unlimited galleries
Shareapic gives you unlimited galleries which you can have as long as non of the pictures goes against their TOS. If you own a celebrities site, you can have dedicated galleries for each individuals. Its simple to upload and view through your gallery.

Sharing your pictures
You are able to share your pictures with forum, ebay, blogging platforms,emails,social networks etc..A simple “Html” or “[IMG]” code will be dedicated to you in thumbnail form,your viewers can click on them and see the full resolution of the picture and you get paid.

Be smart and hit the picture industrial
Many people fail because they do not know where they can share the pictures. Again people are not choosing the right sites and forum to be at. Let’s say you are interested in cars, and you have tons of rare and exotic cars pictures to share, look for forums that talk about them and share your pictures with them.

You are bound to receive clicks to have those pictures viewed in full resolution. Share them on your emails with your friends, tell them to send this mail to their friends, creating a viral spread to everyone to view your pictures.

Why using free picture host is no longer sufficient
Many people still thinks that such amount of money is not worthy of anything, and why should i put in the effort to try this program? If you are using photobucket to host your images, then unluckily you,photobucket is being used by millions of users per day.
If you have login in during peak hours trying to upload a picture or 2, you will face the problem of not being able to get into your account and the speed of the upload would be very slow, What’s worse is you don’t get paid for the effort you place for the time consumed just to upload and let others view.

Conclusion
It is time you step out from sites that don’t pay you for free hosting because there are tons of paying sites right now sitting and waiting for you to take the opportunity. While you can join shareapic for picture sharing, there are also a list of video sharing sites that pays and Flixya is one that pays you 100% adsense revenue share.

Shareapic – Pays You To Host Pictures

Picture and file hosting has established credentials as a business idea. As the cost of storage has rapidly decreased as social networking has boomed picture hosting has been a hot vertical. There’s no shortage of sites in this space, and easy money to be had. At the very top Photobucket was acquired by MySpace for $250 million. To date free file hosting sites have been just that: free file hosting where essentially you get a service for free and the operators keep the profits from the site. Shareapic wants to change that.

Shareapic’s model is simple. It offers the same basic service other free hosting sites offer; upload your pic, get an embed code then display the pic on your site of choice. But Shareapic believes that their success in hosting files and profiting from this should be rewarded. Every registered Shareapic user gets a cut of any advertising revenues Shareapic makes. Primarily this isn’t based on advertising revenue made against each image (although users can add their Adsense code for some revenue via Google), payments are calculated based on image views. Their example:

If in month one Shareapic calculates to distribute $1,000 to our members, we will first tally up the total number of image views for that month. Using these two numbers we can determine the respective payouts for each user. If there were a total of 500,000 image views for the month, image views will equate to $0.002 each (1,000 divided by 500,000), or $2 per 1000 image views. If you’re posting lots of pics in forums, MySpace or eBay, you can see how easy it is to earn quite a bit of money!

Perhaps the only draw back is that Shareapic doesn’t disclose the revenue share; it may lack transparency but it’s still more than other sites pay in this space, which is zero.

We’ve covered two other companies that paid members to participate today, AGLOCO which went to the deadpool, and Capazoo, both of which had dubious multi-level marketing schemes (some would suggest pyramid schemes) and usually come with a catch. By comparison Shareapic has an honest model, so honest in fact that it should be the way of the future. What Shareapic does is recognize that users of a free service provide a financial benefit to the provider, and that in return profits provided by user participation should be shared (at least in part) back. Imagine the hours and hours put in by Facebook users or users of other sites; they may be free services but the providers benefit from each participant, and in the case of Facebook’s valuation, greatly. Expect to see more sites like Shareapic who value their users to the point that they offer financial rewards in return; it’s not only a smart marketing pitch it’s also fair recognition of your time and your effort in a market where many have business models that expect a free ride from their users. Build it and they will come may well be replaced with reward them for their time by sharing profits, and we’ll all be the winners from that.

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COMMENTS::

Alaska Miller

December 10th, 2007 at 11:17 pm

A cute game of a dog chasing its tail.

If you run fast enough you’ll be able to run away from server costs, admin/logistics/sales and finally catch on to that razor thin margin of ad revenue.

Spin spin spin spin little startup, spin. One day you might bluff your way into a decent exit.
Rajeev

December 10th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

I think it could result in more professionalisation of the Web 2.0 service , and better experiance for the audience.

http://tekno-world.blogspot.com
Duncan Riley

December 10th, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Alaska
they only pay a cut of their profit, so ultimately it depends on them being profitable. With Amazon services you’d be surprised how cheap storage is these days, and the margins are surprisingly easy, which is why there are sooooo many sites in this space.
Drew

December 10th, 2007 at 11:44 pm

i think it’s shareapic.net, not .com –
W. Hutson

December 10th, 2007 at 11:53 pm

Duncan,

What makes this even sweeter is that they’re paying via “rewards” to companies that I’m sure will give them the ability to leverage points or bulk buys of credit.

In other words – even the rewards they give – won’t be a true dollar for dollar scenario.

Good legs if they reach critical mass fast and treat their top % of users like gold.

WH
techguy

December 10th, 2007 at 11:55 pm

This is interesting. I heard this same message about a year ago from http://www.cambrianhouse.com Too bad they didn’t think of a market that this idea would work in. Looks like shareapic has.
Duncan Riley

December 11th, 2007 at 12:28 am

Drew
apologies, fixed now.
chrisco

December 11th, 2007 at 12:31 am

This type of model will come to dominate more and more… yes, there will be kinks to work out and some will fail, just like with all startups… but this is the future… it is inevitable.
Duncan Riley

December 11th, 2007 at 12:39 am

chrisco
I think it recognizes the value in our contributions. If I ever find time to become a regular contributor to Fark photoshop contests again I’m going to make money from this
Security risk payments

December 11th, 2007 at 12:41 am

Don’t fall for this pyramid schemes. I remember freePC. They force people to click their ads to get free dell computers. The company ran out business without trace.

Many investors with draw its money during dot com days. They discover adverstiment Ponzi schemes. Many young college graduates couldn’t get a job at IBM, Apple, Ford motors, GE, GE, etc.. Why?
telemarketi ringing homes.

remember this “http://getfreexbox.com” on G4 commerical. Not many people got xbox. They got massive telemarket calls.

Number of job loses.
Number of homes sales drop.
Next year it will do worst.

This is fact.
Duncan Riley

December 11th, 2007 at 12:44 am

Security risk payments
read the post: this isn’t a pyramid scheme, this is a simple rev share model, pretty much as honest as they get, but generally I do take your point.
Next years prediction

December 11th, 2007 at 12:53 am

I hope companies like Microsoft, Google, Norton or Mcafee or other startups does remove ad scheme websites.

Next year, I don’t want to see high growth inflation and higher oil price, forecloser, high layoffs, web 2.0 melt down, and crash of web 2.0.

As visionary, I’m beginning to see huge Web 2.0 crash.
Duncan Riley

December 11th, 2007 at 12:56 am

Next years prediction
I don’t get you on this? ad scheme sites? it’s a free file hosting sites that offers a rev share based on any advertising revenue it makes. They all make advertising revenue (photobucket and others included), the only difference here is they’ll give some back. No scam, no spam, just we share our rev with you.
Security risk payments

December 11th, 2007 at 12:57 am

Forget it Duncan… Security and privacy is most important. Any health insurance companies could buy those data less than second.
AOL does embrassing leaks.
Duncan Riley

December 11th, 2007 at 12:59 am

Security risk payments
two comments in a row that don’t make a lot of sense. Security and privacy are no different here to many other sites, so I’m not sure how your comment is relevant.
Christian DeVera

December 11th, 2007 at 1:46 am

One can also argue that it’s rewarding those who share copyrighted images.
CAR

December 11th, 2007 at 1:56 am

duncan-why posting all these scams.
I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

December 11th, 2007 at 2:07 am

With a bit of luck they can raise enough money to pay the legal costs for copying Skype’s logo.

Am I the only person to notice this? It’s not so much a strong resemblance as completely frickin identical.
Duncan Riley

December 11th, 2007 at 2:35 am

CAR
unlike the other two I happen to think this is a reasonably good idea. Why shouldn’t we be compensated for our time boosting the valuations of a startup/ site? it’s an honest compensation model, simply a % of the revenue from the site, so they aren’t promising the world to only later fail to deliver.
Dan Rogers

December 11th, 2007 at 2:53 am

Cool. I am going to use this service. Atleast upload what all I have and keep getting who know if I make a big some some day.
John

December 11th, 2007 at 3:13 am

Site uses adsense and popups. Google will drop this site for copyright violations. I give it
Ryan

December 11th, 2007 at 4:02 am

Umm their logo looks exactly like Skype’s logo design. I was confused for a few seconds…..
YDRIVE

December 11th, 2007 at 4:06 am

Not too interesting.. and nothing innovative… /ac.
Nick

December 11th, 2007 at 4:54 am

Good Lord, they are using skype’s logo, created using some of those web 2.0 layers for Photoshop. Where’s creativity? Hum…
Ghaus

December 11th, 2007 at 5:38 am

ShareaPic is full of advertisement……This website sucks !!!
Aidan Henry

December 11th, 2007 at 6:06 am

I think I’m with every else here. The logo and content screams “Skype”!

As for the product itself, revenue-sharing is only a marketing tactic. At the end of the day, the features and experience still need to exceed those of competitors.

Cheers,
Aidan
http://www.MappingTheWeb.com
Ben Sokol

December 11th, 2007 at 6:47 am

You should be putting Capazoo in the deadpool as well. They’re laying off workers, firing their vendors, not paying their bills/invoices/payroll, and the operation is essentially on life support.
ITrush

December 11th, 2007 at 6:54 am

Thanks for sharing ideas guys, a newbie like me gains a lot of information from you especially when it comes to criticizing sites.

Nhick
http://www.itrush.com
Eric

December 11th, 2007 at 7:00 am

Actually I think rev share is an incredibly good idea. It’s a good way to attract attention. However, since the pay is based on image views, won’t they have to worry about fraud issues? I’d like to know how they deal with this.
Vikas

December 11th, 2007 at 7:27 am

Its a great business model, sharing what you earn with people who help you earn …

but the way I see it with photographs, its very difficult to get decent view sharing mediocre picture of friends and families.. stock quality images that they show in their front page, well lets say if you have quality pictures you would want to post them on a micro or macro stock photo website and earn revenue that way … unless you are one of the paparazzi and caught Brtiney/Paris in a nice act.. which translates to copyright violated images being circulated through the website you can’t earn anything sizable – Surely a lot of people will initially post tons of pictures and see $0.50 in money earned section, some better than others, but over the time it will be far less money for the effort you put in and you would rather post it somewhere like flickr where you are not searching for your pictures in the middle of ads!
advancedovariancancersymptom

December 11th, 2007 at 7:29 am

The ShareAPic has its advantages, but we need to know how to use this tool.
ew

December 11th, 2007 at 8:12 am

what if i copy all the pics I can see from flickr and put it there? will I get 20mil page that generates rev for me?
Ed

December 11th, 2007 at 8:18 am

Duncan,

I signed up and was totally disappointed.

The site has a lot of advertisements and e-mail offers (sign-up and we’ll send you… you’ll get free..).

It’s more like one of those marketing websites. It’s borderline MLM (for now) and I’m pretty sure once they couldn’t get the target money they will move aggressively in terms of “spamming” your e-mail or whatnot.
Aevin

December 11th, 2007 at 9:07 am

Isn’t there already http://www.sharedimages.org/ ? They pay 1USD per 1153 visitors. There was imagecash some time back, but that one folded already.
Daniel Fontana

December 11th, 2007 at 9:18 am

@Alaska Miller – We are spinning so to speak but we are not having any margin problems, we have slowly invested into our own machines buying more as we received more profit as opposed to renting and paying too much for bandwidth…

@Duncan Riley – Thanks for your optimism.. We have proven that the model works… it just took us a while to find the optimal payrate which is proven now to be .22 cents cpm…

@Ed – Sorry you were so disappointed… Ads are how we stay alive and also how we can pay our users such a high rate! Which has been and will continue to stay @ .22 cents per 1000 impressions

@advancedovariancancersymptom Please read our faq’s…

@Aidan Henry – We did not “Steal” Skypes logo… we just took the web2.0 look that is so popular right now..

@Ghaus – Advertisements are how “free service” sites generate income its what the users have to deal with to get what they want in return..

@John – we no longer use adsense but allow our users to…

Ill check back on this post soon and anwswer any more questions and reply to comments, thanks for the positive press..

-Daniel Fontana
Owner/
Lead Project Manager
http://www.shareapic.net
chrisco

December 11th, 2007 at 10:01 am

I agree there’s still a LOT to work out for these kinds of models, especially just for static images. Videos can have a pre-roll and other forms of advertising, and as Michael [Arrington] pointed out in this post http://www.techcrunch.com/2007…..e-img-tag/ about http://www.britepic.com/ things are on the way for static images as well. It’s going to take time, but the model is there, somewhere. IMHO.
chrisco

December 11th, 2007 at 10:04 am

Ah, you guys are moderating comments now… that’s good. no need to “approve” this one, just a thumbs up to TechCrunch… I mean it’d be nice if it wasn’t necessary, but a few bad apples seem to make it so in all walks of life, unfortunately. Cheers, chrisco (hoping my startup will be featured — in a positive light — on TC one day, but it’s not near ready yet. Cheers again!
I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

December 11th, 2007 at 10:20 am

Daniel,

While I wouldn’t expect you to say “yes, we copied Skype’s logo”, you really can’t expect anyone to believe your denial. It’s all-lowercase white text with a sky-blue surround that has a gradient that gets darker from top to bottom. Skype’s surround is a bit more random and cloud-like, but that’s literally the only difference – and it just makes Shareapic’s logo merely a cheap copy rather than an exact copy.

I can only hope you didn’t pay anyone to come up with that.
Doug Mehus

December 11th, 2007 at 10:42 am

This is a test to see if TC is moderating comments. Please ignore.

Cheers,
Doug
Doug Mehus

December 11th, 2007 at 10:43 am

No, they’re not moderating comments, Chrisco. Perhaps only certain users were placed on moderation, based on their IPs or something?

Cheers,
Doug
SF

December 11th, 2007 at 10:49 am

That’s awesome. But i’d rather carry all my images with me everywhere i go.

Check out this innovative usb pendant from Olinari.

http://olinari.com
MuyLamo

December 11th, 2007 at 10:55 am

Can this steaming pile of Shareapic just fail already? It’s wasted too much of my time as it is.

Glad to see Duncan Riley keep up his record of utterly lacking technological prowess or business acumen. I think he could be replaced by a mail filter that bounced PR pitches directly to the blog.
ImageBam.com

December 11th, 2007 at 11:53 am

“and easy money to be had”

Its not that easy – images tend to get larger and larger (3mb and up). This causes a large amount of data that has be stored and served. Even with good bandwidth-prices it is hard to stay profitable. And if you do not allow nudity you have to spend hours after hours to screen the images.

Under the line free image hosting still pays off but is definitely not just easy money.

Revenue sharing is an excellent method of driving traffic. Nice work @shareapic
ImageBam.com

December 11th, 2007 at 11:54 am

oh btw @shareapic..
I suggest the google adsense-api. It is a great method of earning some extra money!
FacebookBandwagon

December 11th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

@Duncan – I agree with your sentiments that rev share is pretty considerate.

But from a business perspective, I don’t think it’ll work out very well, esp. in this case with posting photos. It’s going to run rampant with spam and gaming of the system. Let’s start a pool on the days left before this one gets deadpooled.
pm

December 11th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

From just looking at the site all the prominate pictures are pictures that someone took from somewhere else. So all you have to do is troll the internet all day, download popular pictures you don’t have the rights to, post them on this site and make money. Sound like a great site for the lawyers out there to take alokk at huh!
Jordan

December 11th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

@FacebookBandwagon – In the past couple years that Shareapic has existed, we have indeed dealt with many methods of “spamming.” However, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions. So far, so good.

@ImageBam – “Even with good bandwidth-prices it is hard to stay profitable.” Not so!! We run our own servers and have a custom contract with our data center Profitable is something we certainly are. You have to be in order to keep expanding.

- Jordan Donaldson
Owner
http://www.shareapic.net
what happens

December 11th, 2007 at 12:45 pm

What if people upload something from FLICKR picture in a sharepic.com?
Daniel Fontana (Shareapic.net)

December 11th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

@what happens its shareapic.net not shareapic.com…

@ImageBam.com glad to hear the positive remarks… It has been a struggle to deal with bandwidth costs and we had that problem when we rented servers from companys that implemented hefty overages etc. But with co-location and owning your own powerful servers/hard drives it is alot easier to manage costs.

___________

@MuyLamo – Dont be a flammer… the big and most successful users of shareapic.net make more then enough to cover the servers/bandwidth they rent for their successful blogs which makes them more then happy. here is an example of one of our users blogs.. -

http://soaddictive.fr/

and this is his public gallery area at Shareapic.net

http://www.shareapic.net/users/soaddictive/

_____

@everyone – The ability earn additional money just for doing what you would call a hobby is amazing to people.. which is why alot of celeb bloggers use our service to host their pictures. I do agree that shareapic.net is not for everyone but for the people that use it right it is a very valuable service.
Mark

December 11th, 2007 at 10:15 pm

In theory – a great idea.

In practice you get:

1. Views fraud (like click fraud, but much easier to make happen)
2. Copyright violations – take someone else’ catchy pic of a semi-naked babe, post it on a few hot forums and there you have it.

Good luck
Jordan

December 12th, 2007 at 5:43 am

@Mark – 1. As stated above, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions.

2. We very rarely receive requests to remove images, but when we do, we remove them promptly. There have been no major problems thus far.
Jordan

December 12th, 2007 at 5:43 am

@Mark – 1. As stated above, we have adapted to recognize spamming of images just as easily as you learn to deal with blog spam. It has been a challenge, but we have custom coded internal tools to help us detect misuse and delete / ban users who try to generate false impressions.

2. We very rarely receive requests to remove images, but when we do, we remove them promptly. There have been no major problems thus far.

- Jordan Donaldson
Owner
http://www.shareapic.net
nell

December 18th, 2007 at 9:16 am

money it’s always money
matthew

December 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pm

I am not quite certain why Capazoo got lumped into a conversation that mentions schemes. Our referral program is not a scheme.

We present everything on the site and it’s open and up front. If Members use their Zoops for upgrade, then they never have to be out of pocket, so I am not quite certain where the scheming comes in.

We value our Members and their efforts to bring in more Members, period. The levels of the referral program are clearly outlined on the site in each and every Member’s account.

I would be happy to supply facts and truth to go with postings that involve our name upon request. If you need to reach me, you can do so via http://www.capazoo.com/matthew …. Happy Holidays
Shareapic Scam

December 28th, 2007 at 8:42 am

I had a very bad experience with shareapic recently. Have been using it for almost a year and sure they do pay but be very careful once your earnings start to increase and accumulate. I had a balance of USD100+ and no, i did not do any autoclicks. They were page views from all the posting i did in various forums around the world. One day they just banned my account and after my appeal to them to reopen it, i was devastated to find out that they have totally wiped out all the photos and earnings with the reason that i do autoclicks, which i never did. Oh and do not forget that they will also slash 50% of your earnings with the reason that the traffic generated from your photos are from Asian countries, which no one can actually verify. Scam? its your say!
Loyal Shareapic User

January 6th, 2008 at 9:33 am

Shareapic has clarified the above post in their forums. I’ve been paid over 15 times, and they are certainly not a scam!!!

http://www.shareapic.net/forum…..php?t=4324

Where over 144,968 users are… Why join??

- Upload unlimited pictures
- No file size restrictions
- Create unlimited galleries
- We pay $0.22 per 1000 pic views.. that’s more than some major ad networks pay their publishers!
- We allow you to add your Bidvertiser © code to your image and gallery pages.
- We pay out within 7 days!
- One click posting to Myspace, Blogger, Xanga, Hi5, and more!

Shareapic.net: Earn Money Sharing Your Pictures with Family and Friends

Shareapic.net is a website that allows you to upload and host images for free on their servers. What makes shareapic different is you do not sell your pictures. It is a revenue sharing model that rewards you for directing your friends and family to your free-hosted images. As a member, you can make galleries, to categorize your pictures.

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Like I plan one making one just for the pictures I draw as apposed to family pictures. You can use your hosted pictures in forums and on places like myspace.com.

The amount of earnings can vary from month to month, because it is based off the amount of Advertising revenue generated by shareapic.com. When the amount of ad income is finalized for a month, a percentage of that is distributed to shareapic members. The amount each member gets is based on ‘image views’.

They explain it like this: if the percentage of revenue to be distributed to members is $1,000. To figure out how to distribute the revenue, they first tally up the total amount of image views in that month. Let us say the month’s total views are 500,000, they divide the percentage of revenue to be distributed by the number on views (1,000 divided by 500,000) which equals = 0.002. I guess they turn that 0.002 in to $2 dollars some how and give you $2 dollars for every 1000 image views in that month. The goal is to keep the users happy, and maintain the website, which includes development costs, salaries, site hosting fees, and so on.

Shareapic does not disclose the amount revenue share, they do show you what was paid in the previous pay period. You will find that is the members section of the website. So the more pictures you post the more earning potential you have. Hey, if you are going to post pictures on places like MySpace or FaceBook, why not make a little cash from them. You can even use the pictures for auctions on eBay, being able to use your picture in that way, you can really see the earning potential.