Is ArtPal Worth It? - Review of ArtPal After 6 Years
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- If you are here, you have probably heard of ArtPal. Maybe you are just looking for places to sell your art or maybe you have been on ArtPal for a little bit and are wondering about the experience of other artists. You may be asking yourself if ArtPal is worth it. With my six years of experience on ArtPal, I want to share my opinion about this platform. If you have had different experiences than me, we would all love to hear them in the comments!
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Thank you for your honesty. I have the same feeling.
You're welcome. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Thank you Brian. I posted some things on another one of your videos and just now came across this. I did set up a store there recently but only spent a few days doing it. Now I realize they have no customer reviews. So I'm going to move onto another, possibly FAA. Many blessings! 🙂
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner!
Thanks for checking out these videos of mine.
I would also suggest checking out Saatchi Art. Great customer service and very client/artist focused.
Wow, i really need this information. thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thanks very much for the great info.
No problem. Thanks for watching!
Good review! Thanks!
You’re welcome. Thanks for checking it out!
Hey there. I've signed up for ArtPal after watching your video to sell my photography. I have almost 200 photos up so far and haven't sold anything either. But after all it's free and keeps growing. Thank you for the great video.
I appreciate the comment and sharing your experience! Thank you!
Great
Thanks for the advice.
Glad it was helpful!
You are spot on mate, I am at a crossroad with them for the reasons you talk about, very frustrating experience!
For sure. Thanks for commenting your thoughts on this one!
Brian, Thank you so much for the valuable information. I was wondering if I should join Artpal and now I know not to. I have just visited your site on FAA and see you work, beautiful work. Thank you for being so sincere and honest about your experience. You have helped a lot of fellow artist like me to avoid sites that will waste my time and effort. Thank you again. Luna
Thank you for watching the video and leaving a comment! Best of luck to you and your work!
So far it's been like 6 months and I have nothing sold on there.....time to move to something else
Thank you Brian. I might sign up to Fine art America
No problem. Thanks for checking out the video!
Just saved me a lot of time appreciate it
Glad it helped!
I was considering ArtPal over FAA to start selling prints on demand of my photography because another video I watched said that FAA listings don't show up in Google searches. Now after seeing your video, I'm reconsidering FAA again anyway because I know with other platforms, you basically have to do all the work of promoting your products and that wouldn't be any different with FAA. I'd rather take a chance with FAA starting out since you said you had more success with them.
I still haven't sold anything on ArtPal. It has been a while as well for FAA but between the two, I have gotten more organically from FAA.
I joined art pal because of your first video and now listening to this- i might change.
Thanks for watching this one too!
Please I want to post my link to this website how do I do that and thanks
Thanks Brain, I've been considering Artpal vs. FAA for my wif's paintings. Great review.
Glad it could help!
Who r U speaking to that now
Right now
Can U speak for yourself
R U speaking to me honestly
I am on FAA. I like the communication and groups on there. It gives artists a feeling they are among artists. Meanwhile, there are so many platforms, and it is very confusing. I talked to a few successful artists at an art show and they told me their main income comes from their own website and social media linked to other platforms where they display their art.
The groups are nice on FAA for sure. There are so many different platforms out there. I do agree though, my personal website and social media are often more successful than many of the platforms I'm apart of.
@@BrianSloanArtist can I ask you where you get your website? I have no clue about doing that and its so confusing to me. I'm an artist also and I have been on FFA for 14 years but I don't make any big sales. I make probably 5 sales a year lol. I use to do fantastic on FB with commissioned pieces and have sold originals there but since Meta came along with the algorithms its extremely hard to get noticed anymore and FB has been slowly dying. I've tried twitter, IG (which I hated), pinterest and Mastodon with no success. Mastodon will bring in LOTS of view counts if you post a FFA link to an image but its mostly bots. I've thought of getting a personal website BUT not sure if its worth paying for one since I've tried all the other ways to drive people to my art. Oh and I agree about artpal. I also tried etsy but its saturated with mostly junk now.
Thanks for that I am on FAA, and average 1 or 2 PODs a month. Have sold a good many originals through them.Better than nothing, But I think it is hard to get views because they add 1000 artists a month., which makes it hard for people to find you. You are lucky to sell any art in this economy.
Definitely better than nothing. It is tough to break out on any of these sites I find. Too many fish in the sea. I have had the most success on Etsy and just locally at markets, etc.
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You're welcome. Thanks for watching!
I still don't understand how ArtPal makes money, there has to be a catch somewhere, I have put one painting on their and was going to upload more but after hearing you have never sold anything in 6 years, I'm not sure I want to invest the time, but thank you for your info and video's Brian.
I know they make money off promotions when artists pay to have their work on the homepage. Then they would also make some off the Print-On-Demand stuff. It all seems a little fishy to me..haha.
I'm considering selling my art online. Artpal does show up on many lists... I don't want to join too many platforms for selling (too much micromanagement). Fineartamerica sounds like a good option but I want two others.
I would recommend Saatchi Art and Artfinder over ArtPal. I also use Etsy and have had decent success there.
@@BrianSloanArtist ok thanks I'll check them out
Thanks for the advice - might be best to take down your first video (Although I agree with you art pal is easy to set up). What pod site has sold the most for you?
I am going to look at just editing the end of the other one to be congruent with this one!
I don't put a lot of effort into pod sites. But up to this point, Redbubble has been the most profitable. I was recently introduced to Teemill which seems to be a promising one. Have just been on it a month though and still working on setting up shop.
I was on there for about 6 years also and promoted it heavily and never one sale... I also tried to find out who runs it and hit a brick wall. I deleted my account and stopped wasting my time there.
Thanks for sharing your experience here for others to read!
So, if Artpal is not the place, then what is? I have all of my 500+ photos on ArtPal without my Watermark. First, I wasn't happy that they wouldn't allow me to add my Watermark. But, having said that, it looks like the industry is going in that direction where companies don't want your Watermark on your art. Weird. But, the drawback I have with ArtPal is they have a section where you can sell/post a Digital File to sell. But, once the customer buys the digital file, Artpal will not add or send a link for the customer to download the file. I contacted ArtPal and made the suggestion that I would mind paying a percentage for that service. So, if ArtPal is not the place, where's the best place?
Thanks for your patience.
I'm not sure what the place is! I can say that having your own website is a big step in the right direction. People being able to search your name and find a dedicated website is a big thing in my opinion.
Etsy has been decent for me and has an option to download digital files. And it actually works to download the file.
I bought a 2mm pinafore pistol from art pal. They never shipped. Took my money and never communicated with me again.
Good to know. Thanks!
Thank you for your video. I cant register on Fine art America website as an artist. it shows me an error during registration. they closed the registration of new artists?
Hmm... I would try again in a day or two. Might just be a glitch.
I have been trying this for several months in a row, my friend from Italy also tried it…
@@Elisabethsartandroses that's weird. I'll see if I can find anything out.
WHat solution do you use for your website's e-commerce? Is it a custom site or a product you bought?
My personal website just uses WooCommerce. They are free plugin with my website and I haven't had any issues with it.
How is Artpal managing without any fees? I came out because I did not sell any of my originals or prints. How is it surviving without any fee?
I believe they make most of their profits from the print-on-demand side of things. You make a little profit, but I'm assuming their profit is included in their base price. Then they also have the promotions fees if you want your artwork listed at the top of the searches.
Good
Thanks for watching!
Hi, Ive been a member in ArtPal for about 6 years.. Though i havent link up my details inregards to payment . After watching your video, i am thinking now if its worth continuing since i havent really given all my payment details. I tried FAA, but the thing is upon providing all my details , there is always an error that shows up on the phone number input in order to recieve a code.. Would you be able to help? Thanks for this Video by the way..
Hmm... I'm unsure what the issue could be with the phone number. Honestly, they would probably tell you to clear your history and cache and try again. Sometimes that's all it takes for issues like that.
Thanks for watching.
@@BrianSloanArtist will try that. Thanks!
were you doing any self-promotion or social media linking/promotion? It would seem that the places that charge commission are incentivized to promote artists because if you make a sale, so do they. They are motivated to promote you, whereas with a site like artpal you have to do the legwork of advertising and promoting yourself totally on your own - which is why they do not charge commission. They are probably banking on making money via clicks and adsense revenue via promotion through linking your gallery whether you make a sale or not . It seems like it's the platform to use if you already have an established social media presence and following and just need a place to make transactions
I wasn't doing any self-promotion at all so I understand what you are saying. That it what I said in my video as well. If you just need a place for transactions to take place. ArtPal could be a decent spot.
so its not good because i just made an account but lets say i can lure someone to my page will they buy it?
They may. I have kept my stuff on it but still haven't sold anything. I don't really upload any of my new stuff though. My focuses have been elsewhere for now.
What artpal audience wants? How to check the favorite work on artpal?
By going to the stats page and scrolling down, you can click on any of your artworks to see their individual stats.
Thanks for this video! When you did business with ArtPal, how did they contact you? How did you receive payment? I'm trying to verify that I'm not engaging in an employment scam.
I don't think I ever was officially contacted by them. I received payment through PayPal though.
@@BrianSloanArtist thank you for your quick response! I was recently hired as a sales manager so I really appreciate your insights. Fingers crossed I get to have a phone conversation with someone and if everything is legit, I will try to make an impact on their business communications and support.
@@romanempireinspire ya from what I have heard, no one has every really had a conversation with them.
Good luck!
@@BrianSloanArtist I requested a call and got one yesterday. We'll see where this all goes.
@@romanempireinspire Please keep me posted!
Same here. never sell anything. Sell lots on other sites.. What are they doing wrong?
That's a good question. I feel like they always show up in searches...
Could you please recommend another, better site?
Maybe it's a scam, they take your high quality images and sell them on or print them themselves and sell them through some outlets. After four years of no sales I deleted my portfolio.
That's fair. Who knows, maybe they do. Thanks for sharing your experience with them as well Dan.
I think artpal is deff an niche market for artists wanting to give certain customers a style of art that isn't maintstream or cookie cutter like. My buddy is on there selling his prints and sells about 4 every 3 weeks or so? but hes crazy good with A.I and digital art designs and are unique and his own original design.. So im guessing it depends on the artist and their style that caters to what people look for artistically speaking. other markets are also great for other artists. it really really depends.
That is a great addition to this video. Thanks for commenting and sharing your friend's experience!
2:15 which ones did work out?
Etsy has been the most successful overall. But honestly, local markets and my personal website have been great too.
What is the best place to sell digital art?
If you want them turned into physical prints and products, then Print-On-Demand websites are where to go. Teemill, Redbubble, Society6, etc. are just a few.
And if i want to stay as digital picture?
@@tomahinic4967 would you be wanting to sell the digital file then?
Yes, i would like to sell digital art.
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Thanks for watching!
I have my real paintings four years on artpal and sell nothing. I make a test to sell free low prise again nothing.
Thanks for sharing this!
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Thanks for watching and commenting!
Please I want to post my link to this website how do I do that and thanks
@@Abdo-ii9qb I'm unsure what you mean by link. Do you want to put your art onto ArtPal to sell?
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You speak very well. (Like a JW) I share your sentiments 100%, although posting our art work on free sites doesn’t hurt, I’d say you just shouldn’t expect much. Like the saying goes, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. To me, SAATCHIART, although they receive a commission, promotes your work. I’ve sold a few paintings there. To compensate for SAATCHIS commission I ramp up the price. I’ve been on artpal for probably 10 years with no sales. I did link my art to my Facebook , mostly for displaying my art to close friends and family . Not really expecting a sale., mostly for displaying
Thanks for sharing your experience as well. You definitely get what you pay for.
I recommend Saatchi Art to everyone. Great company to work with.
Hello, congratulations on sales! I was thinking of joining Saatchiart but find very hard requirements for packaging and shipping my paintings. That is what stopped me from uploading my artwork there. Did you really was following there requirements? Thank you.
@@liannachyk yes, packaging sucks and SAATCHIS asking a little more on commission but for me it seems like the only site that tries to promote your work. I still would recommend SAATCHI but I’m also uploading my art in other websites. What’s the harm?
Thank you!
Ho brother, how r u?hope you're doing great! Do u remember me.. we've contacted on FB once. Hope u reply me back here
Hey Kranthi! Yes for sure. Doing good. How are you?
Thanks for checking out this video!
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