The YAY Core Team

Background

What is Microstock
Affordable image agencies such as YAY are called microstock. Microstock agencies sell digital content at low prices. The content is created and uploaded by the site's community and partners. The contributors get a 50 % commission every time their content is bought and downloaded. For customers microstock entails the availability of a large amount of both professional and "odd" images at affordable prices. YAY offers variation, quality, low price and a great user experience.

The First Years
YAY was established in January 2008, and the first images were uploaded to our site on March 7 same year. After several great reviews and positive response YAY managed to get 200,000 images in the image base by site launch in June 2008.

Today, 10,197 photographers and artists have signed up, and you’ll find 9,195,561 quality images at yaymicro.com.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Social responsibility is important for us at YAY. We believe a company should actively participate in making our society a better one. This includes our employees, business partners and local society, but also being an environmental friendly business and help people who are less fortunate

We try to be a paperless business, with only a minimum of paper usage. All waste is recycled, and we try to restrict our business travels and other business activities associated with emissions.

We have chosen to donate parts of our profit to Kiva. Kiva is a micro finance site (Micro finance is the supply of loans, savings, and other basic financial services to the poor), and their mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty. We at YAY encourage all our customers, suppliers and partners to join Kiva and help make a difference!

Read more about Kiva

Business Opportunities

Photographer
As a photographer / illustrator you can sell licenses for your work through our website. You keep the ownership of your work, but it is licensed under a Royalty Free license. This gives the customer the right to use your work several times, and in large distribution, without extra licensing. You get a 50 % commission at YAY. On subscription sales we offer a €1 (equals about $1.50) commission for each download. You are free to sell your work on other sites. Read more about being a photographer at YAY here , or sign up and begin uploading here .

API
If you are interested in adding a YAY Stock Images API to your site go to our Stock Image API-page for more information.

Affiliate Program
You can earn money by promoting our Affiliate Program. We give you a 20% commission each time a customer buys anything at YAY - forever! Read more..

Job Opportunities
Our image approval is done by a professional company, and therefore we do not need any image approvers. If you are interested in representing YAY in your local market, please contact us for more information about commission, sales material and requirements. E-mail: post@yaymicro.com . Or take a look at our Affiliate Program .

Partners
If you or your company is interested in forming a strategic partnership with YAY, please contact us by e-mail with details regarding your company and suggested partnership activities. E-mail: post@yaymicro.com

Investor

For detailed investor related information, please contact us at post@yaymicro.com