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dpimborough

« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2016, 06:08 »
+1
I'm not even started my sales itself.All my graph shows Zero "0".Why??[https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r]
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r

If I read your post correctly you have had no sales.

No sales= no data to plot that's why your graph is showing zeros


« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2016, 08:01 »
0
I'm not even started my sales itself.All my graph shows Zero "0".Why??[https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r]
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r

If I read your post correctly you have had no sales.

No sales= no data to plot that's why your graph is showing zeros

Your rite, but how i will showcase my data to customers can you please & to survive in photography

« Reply #27 on: September 05, 2016, 19:21 »
+2
I'm not even started my sales itself.All my graph shows Zero "0".Why??[https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r]
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r


If I read your post correctly you have had no sales.

No sales= no data to plot that's why your graph is showing zeros


Your rite, but how i will showcase my data to customers can you please & to survive in photography



Please read this thread about work uploaded to Shutterstock, I think by you, that includes the work of another artist (Santa Claus illustration).

http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/find-a-port-on-ss-with-stolen-images/msg463324/#msg463324

If this is you, you need to immediately remove all work you've uploaded (on other sites if you've done that) that includes the work of other people. That is copyright infringement and you will have your account closed at the agency if you're found to be uploading work that is not your own - every element must have been created by you.

As you (I think) said you haven't had sales and appear to be new to this, you might get the benefit of the doubt if you act immediately to fix this serious error.
« Last Edit: September 06, 2016, 18:13 by Jo Ann Snover »

« Reply #28 on: September 06, 2016, 01:20 »
0
I'm not even started my sales itself.All my graph shows Zero "0".Why??[https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r]
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r


If I read your post correctly you have had no sales.

No sales= no data to plot that's why your graph is showing zeros


Please read this thread about work uploaded to Shutterstock, I think by you, that includes the work of another artist (Santa Claus illustration).

http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/find-a-port-on-ss-with-stolen-images/msg463324/#msg463324

If this is you, you need to immediately remove all work you've uploaded (on other sites if you've done that) that includes the work of other people. That is copyright infringement and you will have your account closed at the agency if you're found to be uploading work that is not your own - every element must have been created by you.

As you (I think) said you haven't had sales and appear to be new to this, you might get the benefit of the doubt if you act immediately to fix this serious error.

Your rite, but how i will showcase my data to customers can you please & to survive in photography




Hi Sorry by mistake i copied their element, I knew about that.No worries i deleted that illustrations.

Justanotherphotographer

« Reply #29 on: September 06, 2016, 03:17 »
+10
You need to delete all your illustrations. They all use clip art from other sources. If you don't SS and the other sites will soon be shutting you down and banning you.

« Reply #30 on: September 06, 2016, 08:51 »
+9
"Copied by mistake"  ;D

« Reply #31 on: September 06, 2016, 13:21 »
+3
You need to delete all your illustrations. They all use clip art from other sources. If you don't SS and the other sites will soon be shutting you down and banning you.

wait, let me get this correctly. were these clip art included stuffs uploaded actually approved by ss reviewers and the other sites???
if so, considering the anal reviewing we have been reading about in the past months,
this is indeed a big surprise that they were not caught. when you think that  , as someone pointed out, even re-submitted stuffs are being caught .

what 's going on???

« Reply #32 on: September 06, 2016, 13:21 »
+3
"Copied by mistake"  ;D

and surprisingly approved by default???

dpimborough

« Reply #33 on: September 06, 2016, 15:41 »
+1
I'm not even started my sales itself.All my graph shows Zero "0".Why??[https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r]
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/r_D_r


If I read your post correctly you have had no sales.

No sales= no data to plot that's why your graph is showing zeros


Your rite, but how i will showcase my data to customers can you please & to survive in photography


You know what you should do?

Remove all the irrelvant keywords from your images

For example

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-476855920/stock-photo-best-landscape-in-oman.html?src=CHihwepp3hs5lfU3yKcuBw-1-65

I see no maps oceans lakes reflection sea water or tourists and try naming these nonedescript places where they are they in Oman  ::)

And stop accidently copying things by mistake as you will be found out and reported :D
« Last Edit: September 07, 2016, 11:20 by Teddy the Cat »

dpimborough

« Reply #34 on: September 06, 2016, 15:43 »
0
You need to delete all your illustrations. They all use clip art from other sources. If you don't SS and the other sites will soon be shutting you down and banning you.

wait, let me get this correctly. were these clip art included stuffs uploaded actually approved by ss reviewers and the other sites???
if so, considering the anal reviewing we have been reading about in the past months,
this is indeed a big surprise that they were not caught. when you think that  , as someone pointed out, even re-submitted stuffs are being caught .

what 's going on???

It's enough to make you weep sometimes  :'(

« Reply #35 on: September 12, 2016, 16:05 »
+1
Does anyone still sell anything on this site? I have never had such a bad period on Shutterstock since I am member there. Today I had ZERO downloads, yesterday 2 subs. And I've tried to continue my uploading every day. I guess now I've reached my breaking point. It is extremely demotivating working without any hope of earning improvements. Before they have started with changing the algorithm, I was doing pretty well, and I have had 4 times less than what I have now (around 2200 vectors). I've worked a lot in the past 3 months and all I can see, is a decrease of my earnings.

Any other opinion? Is everybody content or you just have given up complaining anymore?

Greetings, Luka

« Reply #36 on: September 12, 2016, 22:03 »
0
Does anyone still sell anything on this site? I have never had such a bad period on Shutterstock since I am member there. Today I had ZERO downloads, yesterday 2 subs. And I've tried to continue my uploading every day. I guess now I've reached my breaking point. It is extremely demotivating working without any hope of earning improvements. Before they have started with changing the algorithm, I was doing pretty well, and I have had 4 times less than what I have now (around 2200 vectors). I've worked a lot in the past 3 months and all I can see, is a decrease of my earnings.

Any other opinion? Is everybody content or you just have given up complaining anymore?

Greetings, Luka

Yesterday was really a slow day for me too, had very less downloads. Its a Eid festival maybe the it is due to it. don't know

« Reply #37 on: September 13, 2016, 03:12 »
+2
Naturally they don't use/keep algorithms that lowers overall sales. Some people will gain sales, others will lose. Just a fact of life.
Its surprising though it seems to swing so rapidly you would think over time it would get closer to the ideal and vary less unless there's been a radical change in buyer needs. But if overall sales remain the same/similar  then there's probably as many happy as not......
this stuff has been chewed over for the last 10 years. The simple fact is that they need to keep varying the search to prevent stuff getting stuck in the top of a search and staying there just because it is there. A perfect example of that was a couple of shots of fish and chips (fries) that I happened to upload to istock about  five years back at precisely the moment they screwed up on a "fish and chips" search. The result was that my file was about the best in a search that only delivered something like 40 results. I made about $500 on it as a result (and it seemed to do unusually well on some other sites, too - maybe cross-searching by buyers). And, of course, once a "low commercial value" file picks up a hundred or more sales in a couple of months it gets pretty much locked in near the top of a "best match". God knows what it would have sold if I'd been exclusive. Sadly, they seem to have given it the boot now, its last sale was almost a year ago (and if it wasn't really good enough to justify its sales, it still isn't bad enough not to sell for a year).
« Last Edit: September 13, 2016, 03:14 by BaldricksTrousers »

« Reply #38 on: September 13, 2016, 03:18 »
+2
Naturally they don't use/keep algorithms that lowers overall sales. Some people will gain sales, others will lose. Just a fact of life.
Its surprising though it seems to swing so rapidly you would think over time it would get closer to the ideal and vary less unless there's been a radical change in buyer needs. But if overall sales remain the same/similar  then there's probably as many happy as not......
this stuff has been chewed over for the last 10 years. The simple fact is that they need to keep varying the search to prevent stuff getting stuck in the top of a search and staying there just because it is there. A perfect example of that was a couple of shots of fish and chips (fries) that I happened to upload to istock about  five years back at precisely the moment they screwed up on a "fish and chips" search. The result was that my file was about the best in a search that only delivered something like 40 results. I made about $500 on it as a result (and it seemed to do unusually well on some other sites, too - maybe cross-searching by buyers). And, of course, once a "low commercial value" file picks up a hundred or more sales in a couple of months it gets pretty much locked in near the top of a "best match". God knows what it would have sold if I'd been exclusive. Sadly, they seem to have given it the boot now, its last sale was almost a year ago (and if it wasn't really good enough to justify its sales, it still isn't bad enough not to sell for a year).
Nice to see an honest post where someone isn't claiming there's is the best shot of Fish and Chips EVER and deserves to be perpetually at the top! When I look at my sales with a few exceptions no way would I say my best or most commercial work (in my opinion) has sold the best.

« Reply #39 on: September 13, 2016, 03:35 »
+3
Nice to see an honest post where someone isn't claiming there's is the best shot of Fish and Chips EVER and deserves to be perpetually at the top! When I look at my sales with a few exceptions no way would I say my best or most commercial work (in my opinion) has sold the best.
LOL. I've been at this lark for 12 years ... which is plenty of time to get over being infatuated with my own genius. I leave it to the newbies to be infatuated with my genius now.
The real eye-opener came when I purchased the BBC video entitled: "The Genius of Photography" and discovered to my utter horror that it wasn't all about me. :)
« Last Edit: September 13, 2016, 06:57 by BaldricksTrousers »

« Reply #40 on: September 13, 2016, 06:34 »
0
Does anyone still sell anything on this site? I have never had such a bad period on Shutterstock since I am member there. Today I had ZERO downloads, yesterday 2 subs. And I've tried to continue my uploading every day. I guess now I've reached my breaking point. It is extremely demotivating working without any hope of earning improvements. Before they have started with changing the algorithm, I was doing pretty well, and I have had 4 times less than what I have now (around 2200 vectors). I've worked a lot in the past 3 months and all I can see, is a decrease of my earnings.

Any other opinion? Is everybody content or you just have given up complaining anymore?

Greetings, Luka

just have given up complaining

« Reply #41 on: September 13, 2016, 07:42 »
+1
Yesterday was really a slow day for me too, had very less downloads. Its a Eid festival maybe the it is due to it. don't know

yes, that explains why i had a whole month of zero days. it was ramadan
and the islamic countries abstained from buying vectors and photos from an infidel like shutterstock
(joking, just in case i twisted the knickers of christians who consider this comment sacrilegious from an  athiest).
seriously, as far as i know, most of those pizza-eating freeloading bozos at HO are probably
athiest themselves since they don't believe in an honest hard-days work to make things right...
ignoring answering emails, not fixing the disappearing portfolios, etc.


just have given up complaining

that is the wisest reponse i have read so far.
move on, stop looking at your earnings, and start uploading to adobe,
and even consider a new game at stocksy and canvas.

how can you compete with the smart-phone zero cost brigade who go whoop-yea i got
a 25 cts sale everyday since august, ooh shitterstock is sooooo cooool???


jonbull

    This user is banned.
« Reply #42 on: September 13, 2016, 11:02 »
+1
that explain the falling down of september....8 content sold from sunday to today....never had anything like this..and i'm uploading much more....

luckily rm in big sites and stock and dreamstime are improving this month and last month.
i will focus much more on rm in next moth. micro stock for what i do, mostly travel and reportage, is totally useless at this time. One million images add any week..thousand of photographer accepted...for what?
agency must sit down and start realizing that this will only decrease the quality of their portfolio and create more problem than benefit to customer who don't want 1000000 photos of tomato in white,m or 40000 of colosseum.

jonbull

    This user is banned.
« Reply #43 on: September 13, 2016, 11:04 »
0
off topic...

can anybody explain the adobe deal? i don't understand the difference between fotolia and adobe now...

adobe has also a premium service...

how one can apply to adobe only content?

thanks


« Reply #44 on: September 13, 2016, 12:07 »
+2
off topic...

can anybody explain the adobe deal? i don't understand the difference between fotolia and adobe now...

adobe has also a premium service...

how one can apply to adobe only content?

thanks
In practical terms for contributors there is no difference....expect the Fotolia brand to dissapear at some point

« Reply #45 on: September 13, 2016, 12:14 »
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that explain the falling down of september....8 content sold from sunday to today....never had anything like this..and i'm uploading much more....

luckily rm in big sites and stock and dreamstime are improving this month and last month.
i will focus much more on rm in next moth. micro stock for what i do, mostly travel and reportage, is totally useless at this time. One million images add any week..thousand of photographer accepted...for what?
agency must sit down and start realizing that this will only decrease the quality of their portfolio and create more problem than benefit to customer who don't want 1000000 photos of tomato in white,m or 40000 of colosseum.

so true. i read the thread at ss forums, it's not just you & me and a handful of old contributors who gave up since the IT guy left to spend time with family.
when you read that others with 100% approval consistently are complaining
and you read teddy the cat link to  where Oringer says there is no crisis,
you know it's time to pack up and go somewhere else.

RM sounds like the best thing to do now that ss is becoming more like istock in
"we don't care NFA" attitude, and zero downloads at ss are now making even dreamstime look good

« Reply #46 on: September 14, 2016, 02:23 »
0
Thank you all for your answers! I hope they will fix the platform any time soon, otherwise I think they will have to deal with a decrease in quality images and good contributors. A lot of people will loose the interest in uploading without any result. In the past 24 hours I had a few sales (all subscription) of very old files. Sad...

« Reply #47 on: September 14, 2016, 04:47 »
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Its a Eid festival maybe the it is due to it. don't know
Sorry, I had to google what Eid festival is, at least I get more and more cultivated reading the forum.
My buyers are mostly European and I bet there could be many more uncultivated among them, just like me.

Back to the subject, I had 1-2, rarely 4-5 subs a day with one 1.75 SOD and half of the month is gone. It is worse than my very first sales, some years ago. What is going on?
Btw. Can anyone please tell me where does the 1.75 SOD come from?

jonbull

    This user is banned.
« Reply #48 on: September 14, 2016, 05:07 »
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5,38 dollar from monday...!!!!! unbelievable ...even can stock beat shutter stock for me....i don't know what they did but they did a mess....only some popular image sold and very old...is it worth uploading new content?
maybe they have some software problem. i cannot believe they messed so much.

jonbull

    This user is banned.
« Reply #49 on: September 14, 2016, 05:08 »
0
off topic...

can anybody explain the adobe deal? i don't understand the difference between fotolia and adobe now...

adobe has also a premium service...

how one can apply to adobe only content?

thanks
In practical terms for contributors there is no difference....expect the Fotolia brand to dissapear at some point

thanks a lot.
i wanted apply for premium category but i'm more interested in applying for offset


 

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