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I'm experiencing a very poor start to the month too..the few sales I've had have been of my better sellers... up till recently I was getting a lot of sales of my somewhat dubious older images that had never sold...I suspect a big change in the algorithm which may be working out badly for some of us.
Quote from: Pauws99 on November 07, 2018, 17:10I'm experiencing a very poor start to the month too..the few sales I've had have been of my better sellers... up till recently I was getting a lot of sales of my somewhat dubious older images that had never sold...I suspect a big change in the algorithm which may be working out badly for some of us.You want to remove your portfolio! dont you!
Thomas its obvious SS have stirred the pot again. Looking at my most relevant/popular/what ever it now shows piles of junk from way back when which never had any sales and all the really popular stuff has been thrown to page 4 & 5They really can't help themselves
my photos must really suck because I am getting sales today
Quote from: derek on November 08, 2018, 03:50Quote from: Pauws99 on November 07, 2018, 17:10I'm experiencing a very poor start to the month too..the few sales I've had have been of my better sellers... up till recently I was getting a lot of sales of my somewhat dubious older images that had never sold...I suspect a big change in the algorithm which may be working out badly for some of us.You want to remove your portfolio! dont you! You seem to have some kind of cognitive dissonance issue here the only one suggesting pulling ports is you. I guess its not surprising when you make so many contradictory posts.
Bye bye SS sales. Thanks for trashing my income by letting in all the junk from people who can just about operate a shutter, let alone compose an image. Thanks for making a mockery of all the people who have worked hard at composing, editing and earning the right to be accepted for years into the catalogue. Thank you for making an utter pig's ear of the whole site, your poor security allowing easy theft of images.Thank you so much for nothing.
The heydays of Jon are long gone, the once so helpful and knowledgable Admin is replaced by suits and city-twatts knowing absolutely nothing about the creative world and even less about photography!but they are under the severe preassure of constantlly having to produce results for their shareholders no matter what.
The app keeps crashing, anyone else seeing this?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
The app keeps crashing, anyone else seeing this?
^^ Yes! but alive for tens of thousands of noobs and weekend snappers....There is absolutely no doubt that SS is finished as far as serious photography and earning money.The heydays of Jon are long gone, the once so helpful and knowledgable Admin is replaced by suits and city-twatts knowing absolutely nothing about the creative world and even less about photography!but they are under the severe preassure of constantlly having to produce results for their shareholders no matter what.I know so many people with ports of 20,30,40000 files in their portfolios and EVERY single one of them is down a staggering 70% and have been for over a year now!The once so hailed and praised do good agency is today nothing more then a flea market ( people here thats been with them for 8 years or more know exactly what Im talking about)
Waoh 0 sales so far on a week day,Did i miss something?
as you can see here:https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SSTK/shutterstock/net-incomefrom December 2017 they are increasing a lot the net income, after 2017 in loss (YoY in red)just hope they will balance better our revenue in 2019 to return at the 2016 level.I've doubled my portfolio in one and half years and I earn the same monthly money I suggest you all in invest in SS shares
Quote from: derek on November 09, 2018, 09:36^^ Yes! but alive for tens of thousands of noobs and weekend snappers....There is absolutely no doubt that SS is finished as far as serious photography and earning money.The heydays of Jon are long gone, the once so helpful and knowledgable Admin is replaced by suits and city-twatts knowing absolutely nothing about the creative world and even less about photography!but they are under the severe preassure of constantlly having to produce results for their shareholders no matter what.I know so many people with ports of 20,30,40000 files in their portfolios and EVERY single one of them is down a staggering 70% and have been for over a year now!The once so hailed and praised do good agency is today nothing more then a flea market ( people here thats been with them for 8 years or more know exactly what Im talking about)Yeah and these weekend snappers will never reach payout as they'll get buried after a few sales... meaning that SS will get to keep the money
All days are crappy crappy crappy. Weekends, weekdays all the same. They should rename it junkstock now. Utter garbage.
Quote from: Herg on November 10, 2018, 17:28All days are crappy crappy crappy. Weekends, weekdays all the same. They should rename it junkstock now. Utter garbage.Delete some images! wait a week and then re-upload them! you're going to see some sales I bet!
Quote from: Liorpt on November 09, 2018, 09:41The app keeps crashing, anyone else seeing this?Yes. Was working fine yesterday. Last App update was Nov 2nd so I assume they've busted something on the server end versus a bug in the app itself.
The past few months my SS income has been very fluctuating.July and August were better than average, which is unusual for the summermonths. Then came September that was the worst since August 2016, followed by October that was BME by a large margin. November is very calm, and it could end up like my September.Sometimes I wonder if there is a backlog in sales reporting, so that sales that were not reported during one month or several months, sudenly gets reported in a following month.
A friend and very established lifestyle and fashion photographer asked me yesterday if it was worth joining SS with some 3000 files! I said forget it! go to Adobe/Ft, he will!Funny but just over a year back one would undoubtly have recommended SS!...not now though, chanses are the guy comes back at YOU!
Quote from: derek on November 11, 2018, 12:53A friend and very established lifestyle and fashion photographer asked me yesterday if it was worth joining SS with some 3000 files! I said forget it! go to Adobe/Ft, he will!Funny but just over a year back one would undoubtly have recommended SS!...not now though, chanses are the guy comes back at YOU!I would never suggest to a friend of mine to join microstock market if he has any other way to gain money with photography.In the time he will take keywording 3000 files he can make a lot of photographic services in the real world and earn much more money.3000 pictures will stop to sell in a few months, stock photography has not a big lifespan as some years ago.(and Fotolia rejects 50% of files usually, so count 1500)
It's so depressingly predictable. Capped capped capped every day around $0.72 - $1.08 despite beefing up keywords, adding more images. Talk about a totalitarian agency.
After a good October, the first half of November has been a disaster for me.Ah well, Christmas cancelled then.
ditto! Mac & Cheese for a lot of my dinners this month
Another predictably crap, capped, controlled $0.72 day at SS
Quote from: Herg on November 15, 2018, 03:48It's so depressingly predictable. Capped capped capped every day around $0.72 - $1.08 despite beefing up keywords, adding more images. Talk about a totalitarian agency.Yes agree ( Im also an "old-timer")..but why do you keep adding pictures when nothing sell!...surely you can not believe that crap they say " keep uploading, keep uploading " is going to lead to anything or increase sales???....thats just the slogan they use to keep people on their toes, adding more assets! thats all! fooling new comers etc, etc.
Do you guys never get tired of this??
Quote from: YadaYadaYada on November 15, 2018, 12:08Quote from: Herg on November 15, 2018, 11:02Another predictably crap, capped, controlled $0.72 day at SSHow much do you expect to make from snapshots of old junk, lemurs, walls, alleys, doors and going for a walk with a camera. You need to take pictures of subjects that buyers will buy. You take nice pictures, but they aren't something that will get many downloads. That's the capDo your subjects look anything like these best sellers? https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/best/contributorsHere we go again. Because my images sold MUCH BETTER (around $200 a month of which was ok for the subject matter I took) than they do now. Granted I dont shoot higly commercial stuff with models (not my thing as I find it more interesting to happen upon images by walking about) but You would be surprised what has actually sold for me. And my images are not limited to "old junk, lemurs, walls, alleys, doors" (which actually have sold well) There is a market for ANY photo taken well enough.
Quote from: Herg on November 15, 2018, 11:02Another predictably crap, capped, controlled $0.72 day at SSHow much do you expect to make from snapshots of old junk, lemurs, walls, alleys, doors and going for a walk with a camera. You need to take pictures of subjects that buyers will buy. You take nice pictures, but they aren't something that will get many downloads. That's the capDo your subjects look anything like these best sellers? https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/best/contributors
Still absolutely dire. Really really awful sales. I am on target to earn the lowest amount in nearly 2 years. I have pretty much written Istock off as they have basically destroyed most of what was good about them.
The only thing that has died are my sales which are now even worse. Why did I listen to all the SS evangelists here !
I have waited a year to give my thoughts on SS and leaving IS exclusivity. I would say for me it hasn't been worth it. I have lost around $100 a month. I make around a dollar a day at SS and many rejections so my full portfolio (including ONES THAT SELL at IS) are not included. Even with IS having a terrible year it would have been better to stick with them but I suppose you have to take risks. My thoughts on SS are very very disappointing to say the least. This month one of the worst. Others will probably probably disagree.
SS is now abysmal for sales. Why it is the top rated here I do not know. IS earning me much more now.
And so are weekends.
Quote from: Herg on November 15, 2018, 12:52Quote from: YadaYadaYada on November 15, 2018, 12:08Quote from: Herg on November 15, 2018, 11:02Another predictably crap, capped, controlled $0.72 day at SSHow much do you expect to make from snapshots of old junk, lemurs, walls, alleys, doors and going for a walk with a camera. You need to take pictures of subjects that buyers will buy. You take nice pictures, but they aren't something that will get many downloads. That's the capDo your subjects look anything like these best sellers? https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/en/insights/best/contributorsHere we go again. Because my images sold MUCH BETTER (around $200 a month of which was ok for the subject matter I took) than they do now. Granted I dont shoot higly commercial stuff with models (not my thing as I find it more interesting to happen upon images by walking about) but You would be surprised what has actually sold for me. And my images are not limited to "old junk, lemurs, walls, alleys, doors" (which actually have sold well) There is a market for ANY photo taken well enough.it's clear you are the guy who write also in the doom and gloom thread in ss....that one with a portfolio made of snapshots..who complain not to sell....really what you think you can sell with that portfolio in 2018? maybe 8 years ago or 6, but really what you expect nowadays?...it's miracle if you earn 50 dollar with the stuff...maybe t's not you...ah it's bradbury or something similar....but if it's you please stop talking about ss and review honestly your stuff.
How did Fridays become like Saturdays and Sundays now? Usually they were like any other working week day.
Quote from: kelomang on December 15, 2018, 09:02How did Fridays become like Saturdays and Sundays now? Usually they were like any other working week day.My Friday was like a good Wednesday (over $120). Today, a Saturday, is like a Friday, with 2 ELs and counting.Just a matter of perspective
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