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iStockPhoto.com / Re: February 2024 statements - how did you do?
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No refunds for me, but the lowest month in over four years... by a long shot!
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: February 2024 statements - how did you do?« on: March 21, 2024, 21:14 »
No refunds for me, but the lowest month in over four years... by a long shot!
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Shutterstock.com / Re: What will you do with your port when this arrives?« on: March 14, 2024, 00:32 »
I don't agree with your point of view, but that's mainly because I don't understand it. So what serious agencies would you suggest? And what are the negatives of submitting to Shutterstock?
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Shutterstock.com / Re: What will you do with your port when this arrives?« on: March 13, 2024, 00:12 »2,but maybe 3 or 4 soon: Sure, but you get paid for being on that thin ice, no matter how small that amount may be... and the result of voluntarily giving up skating is exactly the same as falling through the ice. I.e. no more money. 4
Adobe Stock / Re: Does Adobe have any contact info for contributors?« on: March 12, 2024, 07:21 »No. I hired someone to make me an original character design... Were they cheap? 5
Shutterstock.com / Re: What will you do with your port when this arrives?« on: March 11, 2024, 23:03 »
1) $100 a month that will gradually increase, decrease or stay about the same... depending on the amount of new content uploaded
2) $100 a month that will gradually decrease every month until it's more or less zero 3) $0 a month 4) $0 a month I'll go with option 1 please! 6
General Stock Discussion / Re: Open AI Sora text to video - unbelievable new AI video tool« on: March 06, 2024, 22:03 »My friends are using the cloud to create artificial intelligence models. They pay a lot of money for the use of computing power.This AI software generates content in the cloudThis means you will pay a lot of money to the cloud and pay constantly for every video created. If they're your friends then just ask them how much they're paying, instead of just making a complete guess as to the cost. And what do you mean by creating artificial intelligence models? Are they creating videos... or are they creating software, models and platforms that can generate these videos? There's a big difference! Anyway. DALL-E, Midjourney etc... they vary from $10 a month for unlimited images to about $0.02 per image. And there's plenty that are free, albeit probably not quite as good. So what's a video going to cost? It's not been announced yet, but Andrej has heard $0.01 to $0.10 a second which is only going to decrease as they get more users and cheaper GPUs. Sure they could get a $30 a month subscription and download a ten second video that is pretty much exactly what they're looking for... or they could pay $1 or less and get a ten second video that is 100% exactly what they're looking for. Now... you're probably right. I mean, you're very wrong about the whole computing power thing... but you could be right about the prices and whether it's easier to go for a subscription at Envato, Storyblocks or Motion Array. We don't know how much Sora is going to be and the quality will become more apparent when it's released to the public. But 6 months to a year? GPU pricing vs performance has halved, bugs have been ironed out, better models have been developed, adoption increases... the situation will probably be very different. 7
General Stock Discussion / Re: Open AI Sora text to video - unbelievable new AI video tool« on: March 04, 2024, 18:04 »This AI software generates content in the cloudThis means you will pay a lot of money to the cloud and pay constantly for every video created. Where are you getting this information from? Please provide comparative costs for purchasing a stock video versus generating an AI video. 8
General Stock Discussion / Re: Open AI Sora text to video - unbelievable new AI video tool« on: March 04, 2024, 02:02 »I can therefore imagine that in 3 years the AI videos will have high quality.Yeah, and any buyer will have a PC (probably worth $1000 and no more) to quickly generate such a video. Probably the generation time will be several seconds, maximum minutes. This AI software generates content in the cloud, you only need a very basic device to generate images and footage. You've been told this multiple times, but you never listen. Yes, there are AI models that use your computer to generate content, but they're usually more experimental models that are still in testing, the kind you might get from Github or somewhere... most AI content generated today does not use your computing power to produce. 9
VideoBlocks / Re: Storyblocks revenue collapse by 90%?« on: March 01, 2024, 23:50 »
I'm down about 10% on Jan/Feb 2024 compared to Jan/Feb 2023.
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VideoBlocks / Re: Storyblocks : numbers of files in portfolio decreasing each day« on: January 24, 2024, 02:01 »
They did send an email about a month or so back saying they were removing low performing content from our portfolios... might be in your spam folder or something.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Happy Reset!« on: January 10, 2024, 23:20 »
The amount that we get paid is absolutely the most important thing... but Stoker stated that 'buyers are leaving this stock' when the numbers would indicate that they're not.
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Shutterstock.com / Re: Happy Reset!« on: January 09, 2024, 21:51 »In my opinion, the problem with shutterstock is not the percentage for the author. Its problem is the constant decrease in the number of buyers. Buyers are leaving this stock. Do you have evidence to support that? This chart below would say otherwise. In my opinion (although it's pretty much backed up with numbers, experience and observations), the number one reason for declining income with microstock is, and always has been, the competition from fellow authors and new authors. At Shutterstock and everywhere else. Sure, there's plenty of other issues that can affect it... levels, commissions, changes to searches and other features, new agencies, people using cheaper agencies, subscriptions, the rise of AI, the rise of free sites... and all of those combined probably affect earnings more than competition, especially of late... but as a single factor, competition is the one. We don't hit 'the wall' due to a reduction of buyers, we hit it because we can't produce a year on year percentage increase on our portfolio numbers that exceeds the percentage increase of competing content. 13
iStockPhoto.com / Re: Istock worth it for stock video contributors?« on: December 27, 2023, 22:44 »
My iStock earnings are pretty much exactly the same as Pond5 and Shutterstock combined.
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General Stock Discussion / Re: Dump sites?« on: October 31, 2023, 04:21 »There's more to the story than what you are telling In 2016, a certain dude (one of the highest paid photographers) sold a dirty potato for a million bucks... to a guy who'd had four wines? 16
Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells« on: September 28, 2023, 00:32 »
Take the rough with the smooth, I guess...
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Adobe Stock / Re: Anybody making more money now than before video sub started?« on: September 18, 2023, 23:39 »
For me... Five months from start of April to end of August 2023, was 57% more than the five months prior. Only got 105 videos (I thought it was more than that!) but I didn't upload anything new over that period so it's an accurate comparison. If I dont upload anything for a year and my earnings go up, then that's always a pretty impressive result!
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General Photography Discussion / Re: Advice Needed« on: August 07, 2023, 21:31 »
That usually relies on you being paid though. No payment, no ownership... you still own the rights. Although a decent chunk of clients still stick to the slightly outdated process of 30 day invoicing unless agreed otherwise, so I'd try to keep everything civil until the 30 days have passed.
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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Getty Video royalties change« on: August 01, 2023, 08:22 »the way I understood the example: right now if a 200 dollar plan buys ten files, every file is awarded 20 dollars, irrespective of file type. so 20 dollars for any video or photo. Depends on what they're downloading. If I'm understanding it correctly, then if they download 9 Signature Videos, and 1 Essential Image... then the Essential image would get you $0.20. Pretty harsh drop from $3. 20
General - Stock Video / Re: How is AdobeStock video sales these days?« on: July 24, 2023, 22:02 »
2018 was when I 'hit the wall'... reached the peak of my earnings and they've not really increased or decreased much since then (but on average a slight decrease). Since 2018 my Shutterstock earnings have been very consistent, until this year when they have pretty much halved. My Envato earnings have reduced slightly year on year, my Motion Array earnings have reduced slightly year on year, my Storyblocks earnings have increased slightly year on year, my Pond5 earnings have dropped to a quarter of what they were, but my Adobe earnings are the only one that have remained consistent... within less than 5% up or down on the previous year, every year. Seeing that I haven't uploaded much to Adobe in the past five years, that's pretty impressive... if I had been uploading to them then I can only assume that my earnings would have been increasing year on year. So whatever Adobe are doing it seems to be working. Whatever the rest of them are doing... it doesn't seem to be working (apart from Storyblocks).
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General - Stock Video / Re: Re-imagine a world stock video creators only sell on Pond5 getting 60% royalty.« on: July 23, 2023, 00:07 »I explained that here. You didn't really, you just explained in depth the differences you get when it comes to price per download. I mean, it's great if you get $50 a download or $100 a download, but the question was whether the price per download and the increased commission rate makes up for the lack of sales on all the other sites, and that can't be calculated using price per download alone. I'm hoping it does, as otherwise you would likely give up on the whole exclusive vibe... but it's hard to tell, as how much you get per download, seems more important to you than how much you actually earn every month. And while nobody expects you to disclose actual figures, you do always seem to skip that part. 22
VideoBlocks / Re: Storyblocks No Estimated July Earnings« on: July 14, 2023, 07:17 »
Right, I get you... in the bar chart thing. Sorry. Yeah, I see what you mean, mine is about 50% higher in the chart than on the finance page. I guess we'll find out in the next few days. Fingers crossed!
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VideoBlocks / Re: Storyblocks No Estimated July Earnings« on: July 13, 2023, 21:00 »On the Dashboard page, my estimated earnings for June are 503$, while on the Finance page, my next estimated payout is 262$, I wonder which one is right? They're both right, as the dashboard shows the current month's estimated earnings, and the finance page is showing last months earnings which will be paid out this month. 24
Shutterstock.com / Re: What a cool SS, how well he sells« on: June 13, 2023, 22:02 »English is not my language but, "How well he sells", Once upon a time, there was a big thread about poor sales on Shutterstock, which Stoker2014 was enjoying very much... but then a few people would occasionally pop in and mention that they had received a large sale, or sales were going well, and this enraged Stocker2014. It got too much for him and he lashed out, reprimanding one individual and telling them that the thread in question was only for complaining about Shutterstock, and that if people wanted to share positive comments about their sales at SS, then somebody should create a thread called "What a cool SS, how well he sells". And the rest, as they say... is history. 25
General Stock Discussion / Re: Game: Where are the real photos, where are the Generative AI illustrations? Try!« on: June 09, 2023, 20:46 »
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