History and Community
SnapVillage has been both praised by photographers for their ability to set their own prices and occasionally chided by those same constituents for lack of bulk upload and editing tools. There has been some positive sentiment around the interesting nature of certain images in the library but criticism that there is not yet enough images in the system. SnapVillage is estimated to have approximately 300,000 images for sale. iStockphoto advertises a selection of approximately three million images. Since SnapVillage is not an independent company, many in the industry feel that the company has a chance to succeed (in spite of its shortcomings) given backing from its parent company who presumably understand the strategic importance of microstock to its core business. The SnapVillage platform and the development team are thought to be entirely separate from the rest of the Corbis organization and the company has not yet announced specific plans for possible integration between the two companies. Additionally, there has been no public discussion of integrating products from Veer - the network Corbis purchased in November 2007.
SnapVillage was closed at the end of 2009, and replaced with Veer Marketplace.
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