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Mantis:
Dear Contributors,

I’m Eric, I head the team that secures content for 123RF. Thank you for being supportive of our efforts all these years.

As some of you may know, we acquired Pixlr back in April 2017. With the acquisition of Pixlr, we move closer to our group’s vision to create a Creative Ecosystem that’s powered by design, creativity and constant technological innovation. Our aim is to help everyone (creatives, the-not-so creative and businesses) stay relevant and thrive together in this age of the creative economy.

We’re on the brink of yet another exciting project! We’d like to invite you to be a Founding Member Contributor and take part in its creation. With this new platform, we’d like to build a creative community that shares and provide their footage to be used under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licence.

What’s in it for you? :-
1. This platform will run on a donation basis.
a. Downloaders may donate any amount to you as an appreciation of your contribution to the community.
b. 100% of the proceeds will go to you.
2. As for now, our new site is still in the midst of development, however, we would like to register your interest in this project.
a. We aim to build video creation tools that everybody can use as part of the site’s unique offering and in the longer term, we will mix in some monetization ideas.
b. Of course, you’ll be a part of that too!

Interested to back this project? Fill up the form below.
Link : https://eric123rf.typeform.com/to/rY3rmb (https://eric123rf.typeform.com/to/rY3rm)

Look at where they are taking stock.  Share in optional donations.  Holy SH!T.

Noedelhap:
The words 'exciting', 'vision', 'technological innovation' and 'donation basis' combined spell doom and disaster.

There's nothing new about this concept. People (often amateurs and hobbyists) offer CC0 content on their own website or on some platform, with an occasional Paypal donation link as well.
How is this innovating in any way, let alone profitable for us? We're not hobbyists who are happy to see 100,000 downloads and a meager $10 in donations!

Of course, 123RF is NOT doing this for free. Oh no, ad revenue, free traffic, some backlinks to their actual site to obtain paying customers. But we should be thankful they allow us to spend our free time doing things we like so we can see our stuff being used for free. Money isn't the only thing that makes us happy.

cthoman:
The sad thing is you might actually make more money.

angelawaye:
All I need to see is the word "exciting" and I'm OUT ...

THP Creative:
Wow. Lets hope this doesn't take off.

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