Nice research! You managed to name two stores that currently independently broker 3D content for the Poser market! Daz3D currently has 33 PA's whose name starts with the letter A... Plus this topic was also covered in a bit more detail later in the thread here if you remember. But thanks for answering the question.

Razor42 posted at 11:39AM Sun, 12 February 2017 - #4297039

AmbientShade posted at 11:44AM Sun, 12 February 2017 - #4297037

I don't disagree that it's easier, what I disagree with is that you seem to think no one, or mostly no one, can make it on their own and have to ride the coat tails of the bigger guys in order to be successful when that's not true.

So out of all the content creators for the Poser/DSverse what percentage do you think work with a major brokerage? What percentage make it on their own? In my opinion I would say that by far it's the minority that "make it on their own", so that would be mostly no one? Or am I missing something? And again you seem to be blurring DS/Poser content creation and the creation of a Website marketplace as the same pursuit. The creation of the content is essentially the same either way, the difference is the way in which that content is brokered through to the market. The skills required to create, promote and maintain a digital content marketplace are totally different to content creation, why would you blend the two artificially? Do you think the creators of the Steam Store are game designers? Itunes Store designers are musicians? I would also disagree with "riding the coattails" as being an accurate description of the relationship, the partnership is mutually beneficial and the whole is only a sum of its parts.