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It was 30 until some days ago, it used to be more before.  It depends also on your download rank at the site.

Regards,
Adelaide

The lowered upload limit is temporary and is in place to help lower the amount of images waiting to be inspected back to a decent level so your next batch should'nt take so long.   Unfortunatley large upload limits lead to longer waits so they have to adjust accordingly.

As a diamond member of IS, I have had my upload quota cut from 100 to 50 and I am finding this very frustrating. I shoot a lot of images and I am finding this temporary limit very prohibitive. I obviously want to get images online as quickly as possible but I am just not able to do this with IS.

When the limits were put in place, I had already uploaded my 100 quota and therefore I went to -50 straight away! That means two weeks without uploading and this means loss of earnings for me....and those earnings pay my rent etc...

Just venting...I just hope these restrictions are lifted soon so I can get my serious backlog onto IS so they can start earning...even when limits are back to normal that's gonna take a month if I don't shoot in the meantime!

P.S I always try to stay positive about stuff so this is REALLY bugging me! And it's good to have a place to let off a bit of steam. I would NEVER post anything like this on the IS forum for fear of tarnishing my reputation, or even worse, being kicked off the site. Yes they do instill fear in the photographers, even the very successful ones. IS is my highest paying site and I love it for that reason and that reason only.

if you are foreced to upload via a webbrowser, you can open 20 windows, and select one file per window, and then go to the beach while they upload.

With a small portfolio, SS will definitely give you better returns at the start. You can upload it more quickly, your pictures tend to turn up in searches more often and because of the subscripton model, designers are probably not quite as choosy as when they have to pay per picture. But if you leave that small portfolio on SS, your sales will shrink in no time. In fact, even if you have 2000 pictures online, if you don't upload for a couple of months, sales soon stabilise to a mediocre level.

On IS, sales are sluggish at the beginning. However, there is a definite snowballing effect at IS. As a file get downloaded more, it will appear higher up in the "search by downloads", which I suspect is the most popular way of searching at IS. This will lead to more sales which will lead to more sales...

With a large, mature (i.e. 18 months old) portfolio, none of the other sites come close to IS although FT is closing the gap a bit. Which is why I love IS and the upload limits frustrate the heck out of me. Oh well, I can upload again at 7pm EST (which is another day away for me)!

It's my favourite search sorting choice when I want to see the chances I have with an image, if a certain subject/style is popular, etc.  I also use it to look for keywords I wouldn't think about (sometimes words i don't know - this is quite useful for non-English natives) - an image with many downloads is almost certain well keyworded.

I wonder what is a designer's choice.  I would choose a good one with few downloads - feels more "exclusive" - but I also observe this snowball effect you've mentioned.  In many cases I have one particular image in a series getting downloads and the others none - then on other site is another of them that shows this trend. 

Regards,
Adelaide

Just uploaded the 20th one... 

Da va sta forever
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168 hrs is a week, not a month.

grumpy morning posting is always a joy.

Ya well that is another story entirely, but perhaps that says why I am "Right Brained" and not left lol I don't think I was up more than 2 minutes when I posted that...spose this will teach me from now on lol