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General - Stock Video / Bestselling videos at Pond5 in 2011
« on: March 26, 2012, 15:25 »
Hello,

I have asked Tom Bennett, the CEO of Pond5 to tell me what videos sold most in 2011 at Pond5.

Here ist the list, plus my own bestseller there:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de%2F2012%2F03%2F26%2Fdie-top-10-der-meistverkauften-videos-bei-pond5-in-2011%2F (automated Google translation)

Or if you understand German, read my original post here:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2012/03/26/die-top-10-der-meistverkauften-videos-bei-pond5-in-2011/

Best regards,
Robert

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Since about a week I am missing the "Status of your submitted images" emails from Shutterstock, though image batched have been processed as I can see on their website.

Anybody else is missing these emails?

I already asked Shutterstock via contact form and Twitter, no reply yet.

Thanks in advance,
Robert

28
123RF / 123rf video prices and commissions
« on: December 17, 2011, 10:03 »
Hello,

for a while now has 123rf announced that they start to sell videos now.

BUT: I was not able to find the PRICES they want to sell the videos for and the commissions they want to pay the videographers.

I sent them a mail weeks ago, but did not get a response.

Does anybody know more?

I do not want to upload my videos only to find out that they will severely undercut the prices of my other video agencies.

Thanks in advance,
Robert

29
General - Stock Video / What fps sells best?
« on: May 10, 2011, 03:31 »
Hello,

usually I save my footage clips for agencies from my Canon 5D Mark II as

1920 x 1080 pixel (Full HD)
25fps
no sound
MotionJPEG B
.mov Container

Now I've read at some blogs that they recommend either PhotoJPG instead of Motion JPG for footage and another frame rate, usually 29,97fps.

So I am wondering:
What frame rate sells best? And why?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

30
Finally,

I whished long for this, now it happened:

Shutterstock implemented a function that shows the keywords that led to a download for each image.

You find the function in the new "Image Gallery Stats" in their "Shutterstock Darkroom".

I wrote a blog post about it in German:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2011/04/28/shutterstock-verraet-endlich-die-suchbegriffe-der-bildkaeufer/

Here is the automated english Google translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2011/04/28/shutterstock-verraet-endlich-die-suchbegriffe-der-bildkaeufer/&twu=1

What do you think of the function? Any helpful observations made?

31
Hello,

I would love to know what are the best Apps for iPhone, iPad, Android etc.?
I mean ONLY stock photography related ones.

I know of "Easy Release" and some similar ones. But which ones help you doing your stock photography work?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

32
Hello,

I have posted my earnings, my portfolio size and other numbers from my last year in microstock at the big agencies istockphoto, Fotolia, Dreamstime, Shutterstock and 123rf.

The post is in German, here is the Google Translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2010/07/21/zwei-jahre-microstock-mein-zahlen-und-erfahrungen/&twu=1

The original German version can be found here:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2010/07/21/zwei-jahre-microstock-mein-zahlen-und-erfahrungen/

Do these numbers compare to yours?

Have fun reading.

33
Microstock Charts / Import/Export function
« on: March 12, 2010, 08:09 »
Hi Lee,

a great tool you got there.

I would love to see not only an "import" function, but also an "export (to CSV or similar) function, because I fear that if I add month of data and sometime in the future you decide to close the project (let's not hope it, but to be realistic, stuff like that happens to web 2.0 ideas all the time), all the data will be lost.

What do you think?

Thanks in advance,
Robert

34
Hallo,

nach mehreren Jahren als Fotoproduzent habe ich mein gesammeltes Wissen in Buchform gebracht und biete das Buch "Stockfotografie. Geld verdienen mit eigenen Fotos" nun zum Verkauf an.

Mehr Details, Leseproben etc. findet ihr hier:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2010/01/30/mein-stockfotografie-buch-ist-jetzt-erhaltlich/

Viel Spa beim Lesen,
Robert

35
Hello,

I published in my blog a free Online Stock Photography Income Calculator:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/stock-photography-income-calculator

After entering some information like downloads and earnings so far this year and the size of the photographer's portfolio, the calculator shows the projected income until the end of this year and the next year. It also accounts for the portfolio growth over time and allows adjusting different currencies so the income from different stock agencies can be better compared.

Additionally other statistic data like "return per image/year" (RPI), "return per download/year" (RPD), "downloads per image/year" and more will be calculated.

More information and help provided on my blog.

If you have any ideas for improvement or suggestions, please let me know.

Bye,
Robert

36
Hello,

I combined the data of seven different stock agencies to put together a list of the All Time Top 10 Stock Photography keywords.
Guess what is No. 1? (Hint: No, it's not "Business" ;) )

 Have fun reading and using:
http://tinyurl.com/djzx9x

It's an automatic translation from German, whoever prefers the original, it's here:
http://tinyurl.com/dy7fk3

Bye,
Robert

37
Hello,

I have calculated, how much I earn on average with non-exclusive files at Fotolia compared to exclusive files and also compared, how the earnings split and price change an March 1st affected these earnings:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2009/04/13/analyse-durchschnittliche-einnahmen-bei-fotolia/

For all non-german readers, here is an automated english translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de%2F2009%2F04%2F13%2Fanalyse-durchschnittliche-einnahmen-bei-fotolia%2F&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=

How have your earnings changed?

Bye, Robert

38
Deutsche Diskussion / Wie verschlagworte ich Fotos richtig?
« on: March 18, 2009, 02:47 »
Das werde ich des fteren von anderen Fotografen gefragt und habe deshalb mal ausfhrlich darauf geantwortet:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2009/03/18/frag-den-fotograf-tipps-zur-verschlagwortung/

Viel Spa beim Lesen und ich bin gespannt, wie ihr Eure Fotos verschlagwortet.

39
General Stock Discussion / My day with Yuri Arcurs
« on: December 09, 2008, 06:36 »
On Saturday, Fotolia organized a workshop with Yuri Arcurs and invited me to blog about it.

So here it is, my blog-entry about the day with Yuri and some helpful tipps (in German though):
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2008/12/09/ein-tag-mit-microstock-fotograf-yuri-arcurs/

Here a translation in english with BabelFish:
http://de.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de%2F2008%2F12%2F09%2Fein-tag-mit-microstock-fotograf-yuri-arcurs%2F&lp=de_en&btnTrUrl=%C3%9Cbersetzen

Bye, Robert

40
Shutterstock.com / Who uses german keywords with Shutterstock?
« on: October 30, 2008, 05:41 »
Hello,

I have submitted images at Shutterstock from Germany and they asked to keyword the files in German.

Usually no probem since German keywords are already in the IPTC-Headers.

But Shutterstock messes them up, giving me for "Geschftsfrau" --> "Gesch?ftsfrau", so I have to correct every keyword with "Umlauten" in it.

Does it happen with other people too? If no, what browser etc. you use? (I use Firefox 2.0.17 on a PC)

I would like to find a way to avoid this work.

Thanks in advance,
Robert

41
General - Top Sites / Questions to photo agencies
« on: October 29, 2008, 11:13 »
Hello,

I hopefully will have a small mail interview with one of the microstock-agencies and would like to ask if you have some questions you would like to ask that I didn't think of yet?

Here my suggestions:
- how many photographers you represent?
- how many exclusively?
- how many photographers contribute on a regular basis?
- how many pictures you receive per month in average?
- how many percent of these pictures get accepted?
- what is the most common rejection reason?
- how many pictures does a photographers has online in average?
- how much earns a photographer per sale as average? (for non-exclusives/excluives)
- how much do the top 20% of the photographers earn per month in average?
- what motives sell best?
- what pictures you would like to receive that you have not enough of?

If the interview gets published, I will let you know the results...

Thanks in advance,
Robert

42
During the German photography fair "Photokina" the istock-founder and CEO Bruce Livingstone held a speech titled "The Future of Microstock.
I wanted to record it and put it on my blog but I only got the permission to write about it:
http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2008/09/27/the-future-of-microstock-vortrag-von-bruce-livingstone/

The review is in German, Babelfish might be your friend.
Here a micro translation:
- 2009 is more localized content in planning
- FTP uploads won't be there in the future, but they are working on a bulk upload program for PC
- a "German payment service" is in planning
- istock has the highest rejection rates in the microstock-market

bye, Robert

43
Hello,

I have done a research about which picture agencies sell the most pictures to magazines by looking at the credit lines in many magazines. You can see the results in my blog here:

http://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2008/07/10/einleitung-fotos-von-bildagenturen-in-zeitschriften/

Sorry, it's in German though, but the agency names and numbers can be understood, I guess...  ;)

Most of the agencies are macrostock, from microstock most seem to use fotolia (which isn't surprising since I only checked german magazines)...

Bye,
Robert

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