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Agency Based Discussion => Dreamstime.com => Topic started by: madelaide on November 09, 2010, 15:48
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For those of you still uploading to DT, and also for those who have images online (in red):
http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_24682 (http://www.dreamstime.com/thread_24682)
The 10,000,000th image is close. Last 6 years were an incredible journey. What was only a dream becomes everyday reality for more and more Dreamstimers. In return for your hard work, we have a special promotion for all our members during the milestone day. Not something new, a promotion we did in the past. However, considering the current size of our community, this is of a much bigger magnitude, showing the strength of this industry.
Besides the usual prize, now an Ipad awarded to the contributor uploading the milestone, we have something new. Royalties for all downloads made during the day when the 10th million file is achieved will be as follows:
- 100% to all non-exclusive contributors
- 110% to all exclusive contributors
- 20% discount to all buyers
It's only one day, but will make it count! The ETA countdown that we installed (see welcome tab) shows when the milestone is expected. We hope to decrease the time and reach it in the middle of the week, during one of our best days ever. In order to reach it sooner, feel free to bribe editors with kind comments, no forum rules trespassing and of course, chocolate :)
Thank you all for making this possible!
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Those are dashes and not minus signs in front of the percentages, right? ;D
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Crikey!
Very nice to hear something so positive from an agency. That's the way I like it :D
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Right now the ETA for hitting 10 million is on Thanksgiving Day in the US.
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Well - Woo-f*cking-Yay :)
Punctum Day has come to Dreamstime, and non-Exclusives are not excluded :-)
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Well - Woo-f*cking-Yay :)
Punctum Day has come to Dreamstime, and non-Exclusives are not excluded :-)
HELL YEAH! let's hope for a week day :P
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Sweeet!
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Wow! This is really exciting! First time any agency will be giving a 100% royalty day to NON-exclusives! What a wonderful gesture! :D
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Wow! This is really exciting! First time any agency will be giving a 100% royalty day to NON-exclusives! What a wonderful gesture! :D
Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
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Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
I knew someone would have to say that.
Let's look at it this way - Istock cut royalties to less than half what Dreamstime pays, and they simultaneously eliminated Punctum Day awards.
Are we so beaten down that we can't even enjoy a bit of good news? Considering how much bad news there has been out of the micros lately, I am more than happy to give Dreamstime credit where credit is due.
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Love them!
Always have :)
My most favorite site, a great, reliable agency.
Thank you Dreamstime, (especially at a time like this) !
Show us, (and them), that it can be done.
It's a lesson.
Thank you!
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Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
I knew someone would have to say that.
Let's look at it this way - Istock cut royalties to less than half what Dreamstime pays, and they simultaneously eliminated Punctum Day awards.
Are we so beaten down that we can't even enjoy a bit of good news? Considering how much bad news there has been out of the micros lately, I am more than happy to give Dreamstime credit where credit is due.
Sorry, I can't help feeling the way I do. This just doesn't excite me at all, unless I happen to get 20 EL's on that day.
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Nice! Now watch I won't get any dl's of any kind on that day ;) Ever positive me :P
I've got 6 pending now where are the other 150,000+ images at ;)
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Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
Well you could look at it that way, I like to think that they didn't have to do anything and in the current economic climate I see it as a decent thing to do.
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Anita,
4 pending here, just uploaded :)
But keep positive!
We might win something (for once!) :)
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Great news! Great to see Dreamstime rewarding both the exclusive and non-exclusive photographers.
Current images total: 9,876,291
http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community (http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community)
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Anita,
4 pending here, just uploaded :)
But keep positive!
We might win something (for once!) :)
I've actually been having regular sales there lately nearly every day or so. But I'm waiting for the bottom to drop out ;)
Working on more now that I don't have any time consuming business paperwork to deal with.
I bet this will also encourage more uploads and maybe it'll happen before Thanksgiving.
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Nothing to be excited about they will choose a winner and a time so they can sell a story with an image chosen. I would bet it will happen on weekend when everything is slow anyway.
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That's what I fear also, the 10.000.000 day will be in weekend :(
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We will see. I doubt that. It does not make any sense to come up with such an annoncement to ruin it by timing it on weekend. And yes, they certainly have way to target a day by driving the reviews. As far as I know they do not review or at least do not review much during weekends.
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honeslty guys come on.... DT is doing this like nobody as done before (I guess) and eveybody is complaining??
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DT is the best!
They deserved a big and aggressive promotional campaign by us, photographers ...
Let's show to the other agencies what is big synergy between agency and photographers ... ;)
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^^^I agree, lets start a big and aggressive promotional campaign by us, photographers (and illustrators) and send them all to Graphic Leftovers :)
My earnings with DT are way down this year, I feel afraid to upload anything remotely similar and they have cut my commission. If the 100% royalty day was today, I would be on for a $0 bonus. Apart from that, they are doing well.
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What's the bonus on subs, that's all I seem to sell this month!
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Nothing to be excited about they will choose a winner and a time so they can sell a story with an image chosen. I would bet it will happen on weekend when everything is slow anyway.
If you look at the "winners" of the earlier milestones (9 mill, 8 mill etc), they look pretty random to me. My sales have been up lately, and I love the gesture, even though it is quite probable that I won't make anything. I especially like the 110% to the exclusives. That is a good way to show appreciation.
Earlier winners: http://www.dreamstime.com/contest.php?pg=1#9900000 (http://www.dreamstime.com/contest.php?pg=1#9900000)
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It'S a GOOD thing. *, with all the skullduggery and shenanigans going on elsewhere the best thing to do is upload like mad. Personally, I'd like to see them rocket through 10m and well beyond before month end. It might encourage a few incentives elsewhere - a longshot but who knows. Just grab it.
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I'm glad to see somebody can keep up the 100% day celebrations :) .
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10 millions is nice for DT, for buyers, too. But we are sellers, what is better for us - full market or empty? More files online - lower our chances to sell something. Why are you so happy?
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That's certainly a very nice thing to do and I appreciate it. DT stands out of the other agencies for this, especially by including the non-exclusives in this promotion.
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10 millions is nice for DT, for buyers, too. But we are sellers, what is better for us - full market or empty? More files online - lower our chances to sell something. Why are you so happy?
LOL let's close agencies for new uploads :P
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10 millions is nice for DT, for buyers, too. But we are sellers, what is better for us - full market or empty? More files online - lower our chances to sell something. Why are you so happy?
LOL let's close agencies for new uploads :P
??? Isn't that an argument for avoiding the Big Four altogether? :-\
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10 millions is nice for DT, for buyers, too. But we are sellers, what is better for us - full market or empty? More files online - lower our chances to sell something. Why are you so happy?
LOL let's close agencies for new uploads :P
1. Impossible - to close agencies can only their owners!
2. Agencies understand this ( they are sellers, too) and are cleaning their data bases by deleting or mowing to free section files, standing some years without downloads ( 4 years for DT). Accepting requirements become stronger, more rejections, lower prices.
3. On this page right side you see lot of agencies. How much will be here after 5 - 10 years? I think, only some biggest, other will die without buyers and earnings...
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I agree with your statement but actually every contributor have is own plan regarding expenses, earnings, whatever.. when we see something positive we gotta keep giving and working, not giving up just to let previous contributors happy or so, if agencies keep approving that's their own business, we cannot do nothing, I guess we could.. UPLOAD!
I won't stop just to let "previous/big/whatever" contributors stay happy!
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LOL let's close agencies for new uploads :P
No no Luis, only for your uploads. ;D
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LOL let's close agencies for new uploads :P
No no Luis, only for your uploads. ;D
eheh DT is already doing that BIG time :P
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skullduggery and shenanigans
Pardon my ignorance, but what does that mean?
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skullduggery and shenanigans
Pardon my ignorance, but what does that mean?
Skullduggery is sort of dishonest, cheating sort of behavior, and shenigans are mischief and generally behaving badly.
Here are the dictionary definitions:
Skullduggery: underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also : a devious device or trick
Shenanigans: 1) a devious trick used especially for an underhand purpose
2) a : tricky or questionable practices or conduct —usually used in plural
b : high-spirited or mischievous activity —usually used in plural
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Thanks, Lisa. Shenigans is the name of a pub here, and I always thought it was a proper name. :D
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Thanks, Lisa. Shenigans is the name of a pub here, and I always thought it was a proper name. :D
LOL! Wonder what they've been getting up to at that club? ;D
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Thanks, Lisa. Shenigans is the name of a pub here, and I always thought it was a proper name. :D
Is it an Irish Pub? ??? :D
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9,917,707 images
getting close!
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Leaf, where do you see that number?
Warren, indeed, it's an Irish pub.
Lisa, after people there drink a few beers, I don't want to be near the dart board. :D
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Number of images online is listed on this page - http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community (http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community)
Stats & Community, under Community Statistics
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Thanks!
It wil take a while, it seems. There are not even pending files enough to complete de 10M.
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And many of the pending files will be rejected.
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9,917,707 images
getting close!
well last time I posted was the 10th and they have around 40,000 more images since then so it should take maybe 6-10 more days.
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Front page is predicting Nov 23rd as the date. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving in the US, and traditionally the last workday before the holiday break.
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skullduggery and shenanigans
Pardon my ignorance, but what does that mean?
Skullduggery is sort of dishonest, cheating sort of behavior, and shenigans are mischief and generally behaving badly.
Here are the dictionary definitions:
Skullduggery: underhanded or unscrupulous behavior; also : a devious device or trick
Shenanigans: 1) a devious trick used especially for an underhand purpose
2) a : tricky or questionable practices or conduct —usually used in plural
b : high-spirited or mischievous activity —usually used in plural
Thanks for the translation ;)
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I'm glad to see somebody can keep up the 100% day celebrations :)
You might say that it's quite "sustainable."
:)
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Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
I knew someone would have to say that.
Let's look at it this way - Istock cut royalties to less than half what Dreamstime pays, and they simultaneously eliminated Punctum Day awards.
Are we so beaten down that we can't even enjoy a bit of good news? Considering how much bad news there has been out of the micros lately, I am more than happy to give Dreamstime credit where credit is due.
Words like "gift horse" and "mouth" come to mind :) It's only a gesture but it's a NICE gesture...
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I'm glad to see somebody can keep up the 100% day celebrations :)
You might say that it's quite "sustainable."
I saw IS announce in a thread that they will NEVER have another 100% royalty day, even for exclusives only.
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9,917,707 images
getting close!
9,964,776 images
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Serban is predicting the 10M mark to hit this Sunday. (posted on his FaceBook page)
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He said Monday or Tuesday on the forum.
I'm even thinking of uploading something...
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Is anyone waiting until the pending images number comes very close to the online images number before they submit? Right now online is images equal 9,972,252 and pending is 15,629, about 12,000 or so shot of 10 mil.
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The review times are usually about a week, so if the expected time is on monday, it is to late to upload now.
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The review times are usually about a week, so if the expected time is on monday, it is to late to upload now.
That was my usual experience as well, but I uploaded some images yesterday, submitted them this morning and a few hours later they were accepted and are now online.
The first time that I ever had such a fast review from DT.
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That was my usual experience as well, but I uploaded some images yesterday, submitted them this morning and a few hours later they were accepted and are now online.
same here, I uploaded a whole bunch of images, wait time was estimated at 4 days, and they were reviewed in a day, so I'm waiting until the pending numbers gets much closer to making the total number 10,000,000.
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it cannot be Sunday..............
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it cannot be Sunday..............
I would be very surprised if it was Saturday or Sunday. It wouldn't make much sense to announce the 100%/110% royalties day just to make everyone angry because it happened to be Sunday.
They obviously can push that to Monday if they want (I was under the impression that they don't review or don't review much on the weekends anyway, so it shouldn't really be a problem for them).
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9,917,707 images
getting close!
9,964,776 images
9,973,343 images
http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community (http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community)
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Nothing is adding up, the pending numbers when added to the online numbers do not reach 10,000,000, the estimate is the 22nd down from the 25th, when images are uploaded the are estimated to be reviewed in 150 hours, then they are reviewed in a day or two. What should we believe?
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Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
I knew someone would have to say that.
Let's look at it this way - Istock cut royalties to less than half what Dreamstime pays, and they simultaneously eliminated Punctum Day awards.
Are we so beaten down that we can't even enjoy a bit of good news? Considering how much bad news there has been out of the micros lately, I am more than happy to give Dreamstime credit where credit is due.
Agreeing 100%, credit where credit is due.
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Nice but I can't help feeling they will only use a tiny bit of the money they have made from our commission cuts.
I knew someone would have to say that.
Let's look at it this way - Istock cut royalties to less than half what Dreamstime pays, and they simultaneously eliminated Punctum Day awards.
Are we so beaten down that we can't even enjoy a bit of good news? Considering how much bad news there has been out of the micros lately, I am more than happy to give Dreamstime credit where credit is due.
Agreeing 100%, credit where credit is due.
I agree as well. Dreamstime also has the great system where the more a picture sells the more it earns. I like that. I just wish they had a more professional name.
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Nothing is adding up, the pending numbers when added to the online numbers do not reach 10,000,000, the estimate is the 22nd down from the 25th, when images are uploaded the are estimated to be reviewed in 150 hours, then they are reviewed in a day or two. What should we believe?
I would suggest not making decisions based on their projections, since they have no way to know for sure how many images will be submitted during that time. Inspectors are anxious to get there too, I'd guess, and may be increasing their output in order to reach the goal ahead of schedule.
I am uploading some files each day, and not obsessing too much about figuring it all out. ;)
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I just wish they'd do more marketing or something... I have a smaller portfolio on ShutterStock and make 20 times the money there than I do on DreamsTime.
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This race to hit 10 mills is rather good for my approval rate :)
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They are reviewing files at a record pace. I submitted yesterday, and already through the queue! Too bad after the 10m it will be back to a week review time.
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Oh no, it's going to be Sunday. Everyone stop uploading :(
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Those are dashes and not minus signs in front of the percentages, right? ;D
That TRULY caused me to laugh out loud!
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Oh no, it's going to be Sunday. Everyone stop uploading :(
Monday. 18,817 images left. It's a very nice gesture from DT since it sacrifices (200 working days in a year) 0.5% of its income. I figure they pushed the reviewers a lot since approvals were only 2 days the past week.
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All my pending images have been approved super-fast, and the queue is longer than the number of images needed to get to 10,000,000, so I know I won't win... :) Even so, it's great fun to watch when it will be. Thanks Dreamstime!
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I have 7 images awaiting review and it may be the only time I've been wishing that ETR countdown clock would slow down a little!
I guess it's better to have them approved sooner than later though, so they are online when the big moment occurs. It's been fun to watch and I hope that it jump-starts my small portfolio. My seven pending images are seasonal so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they are timely and in demand.
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All my pending images have been approved super-fast, and the queue is longer than the number of images needed to get to 10,000,000, so I know I won't win... :) Even so, it's great fun to watch when it will be. Thanks Dreamstime!
Don't forget that some are rejected though
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9,917,707 images
getting close!
9,964,776 images
9,973,343 images
[url]http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community[/url] ([url]http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community[/url])
9,982,937 images online
31,244 pending
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I have 7 images awaiting review and it may be the only time I've been wishing that ETR countdown clock would slow down a little!
The ETR was far off the previous week. I had 120 hours and then suddenly accepted. It will be Tuesday for now. With 10 pending, I have a fair chance and you should too.
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I have 7 images awaiting review and it may be the only time I've been wishing that ETR countdown clock would slow down a little!
The ETR was far off the previous week. I had 120 hours and then suddenly accepted. It will be Tuesday for now. With 10 pending, I have a fair chance and you should too.
I'm hovering around 99 - 100 hours ETR. I notice they usually get grabbed for review as the get to the 80 - 90 hours ETR range, then sit there for about 24 - 30 hours. I guess anyone with images pending has a decent chance - you've got to be in it to win it!
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9,917,707 images
getting close!
9,964,776 images
9,973,343 images
[url]http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community[/url] ([url]http://www.dreamstime.com/statistics-community[/url])
9,982,937 images online
31,244 pending
getting very close!
9,990,597 images
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Online images: 9,990,597
edit: Oh I was too slow...
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So what is likely to be the day, then? Tomorrow? Wednesday?
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So what is likely to be the day, then? Tomorrow? Wednesday?
I would guess today or tommorow. I hope they give us a little warning though so we can advertise to buyers that they should buy TODAY... whenever that day comes.
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1 day 10 hours according to the clock.
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According to the timer we are now under 6 minutes before the 100% royalty.
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According to the timer we are now under 6 minutes before the 100% royalty.
Oh no! My new images are waiting to be grabbed for review - almost there! I was hoping they would be on line before the big moment since they are all seasonal images and hopefully would be well timed for the anticipated buying frenzy.
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9,993,206
I have 3 sitting at "72 hours" but that hasn't meant much the last week or so.
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I have 4 pics at 38 hours. This is really exiting, like a lottery with free tickets. :)
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If they are anything like istock, they will carefully select the "random" 10 millionth file. The ones I have in the queue are nothing special, so I'm not really getting my hopes up. LOL :P
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The ETA is actually 12 hours ;D
I've got one in pending with 65 hours. Don't think it's moved since I looked at it a few hours ago.
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According to the timer we are now under 6 minutes before the 100% royalty.
What timer?
The counter says 9,993,841.
Won't they leave this for tomorrow morning?
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Go here and scroll down to the Apple iPad image. There's an ETA under it. From where I'm sitting it says just over five hours:
http://www.dreamstime.com/ (http://www.dreamstime.com/)
Given what others seem to be seeing, I'm wondering if it's showing different times in different time zones.
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Just checked the clock. Mine says 10 hrs 30 min. I'm in the US. I think they are timing it for just after midnight here.
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9,994,212 now. I hope they live this for tomorrow, as I only had one sale today!
ETA: November 23rd, 2010
6:30:0
(in what time zone?)
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Wonder how the 100% royalty will apply to sub sales?
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I'm East Coast in the US.
5,655 images left.
ETA: November 23rd, 2010
Now!
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I'm East Coast in the US.
5,655 images left.
ETA: November 23rd, 2010
Now!
yep ditto here. It looks like it is going to be today (Tuesday)
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we need to drum up support for Dreamstime today and try and get buyers to the site!
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TODAY????
Is it going to be a 24h thing on "just today"?
It's 10pm here already. Buyers in Europe have all gone to bed by now.
Ok, today in Europe. Tomorrow for the Americas. ::)
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In the lands of the Rising Sun, "today" is already Tuesday, 8am. The DT estimated day says "now", and still 5,000+ images left. Time zones can be tricky.
The iPad is of course a lottery but the 100% commissions are for everybody.
@Warren: I don't think they can apply it to subs since those were paid before the magic day.
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Aw, that's bad news. So for today subs remain .25$ (for level 1,2) and we get 100% share only for credit sales? That makes sense..
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Hope it's Tuesday.
Thursday is a big US holiday, so Wednesday is the biggest travel day of the year here. All those folks standing in line at the airport are not going to be buying images...
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Tomorrow huh. And wouldn't you know it I am having one of my Best Mondays Ever at DT. Probably won't get a single sale tomorrow.
And I don't want an iPad or whatever they call that Apple thingy. If I win it I hereby promise that I will donate it to Madelaide in case one of those kids asked Santa for one. (And I do have some images pending at DT, though I doubt somehow if a vector is going to be #10,000,000 :D)
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Update from Achilles on the DT board:
The subscription royalties will be awarded at a double rate for today. As you know, they are not percentage based, but we count them in for this promotion. To keep things simple we just doubled them.
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Update from Achilles on the DT board:
The subscription royalties will be awarded at a double rate for today. As you know, they are not percentage based, but we count them in for this promotion. To keep things simple we just doubled them.
thanks for the info.
That seems like a good solution from Dreamstime.
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411 images to go and I have 6 under review! Just send some roses when I win . . . . . . . . . . . . :)
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0 images left...
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Online images: 10,000,091
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Update from Achilles on the DT board:
The subscription royalties will be awarded at a double rate for today. As you know, they are not percentage based, but we count them in for this promotion. To keep things simple we just doubled them.
They are true to their word, just got a .70 instead of .35 for a sub.
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Update from Achilles on the DT board:
The subscription royalties will be awarded at a double rate for today. As you know, they are not percentage based, but we count them in for this promotion. To keep things simple we just doubled them.
They are true to their word, just got a .70 instead of .35 for a sub.
yeah quite nice. I just saw a level 5 sale and a higher level sub sale.
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the 100% sale will be shown under 'comments', right?
I had one sale, but not sure is it 100% royalty, but there is a message under 'comments' with that file thumbnails.
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the 100% sale will be shown under 'comments', right?
I had one sale, but not sure is it 100% royalty, but there is a message under 'comments' with that file thumbnails.
No, there is no comments or anything saying it is a 100% sale. You can only know because the proceeds are 2x what they usually are for that type of sale.
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^ Not true, I received a comment after a sale saying:
"Dear Steven,
We're celebrating our 10 millionth image today. We want to thank you for being a part of our dream and let you know that all images licensed today from your portfolio will award you 100% royalties."
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This day will be great!
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^ Not true, I received a comment after a sale saying:
"Dear Steven,
We're celebrating our 10 millionth image today. We want to thank you for being a part of our dream and let you know that all images licensed today from your portfolio will award you 100% royalties."
Ah yes, ok true enough. I got that message too I guess. I feel that was a general message though - you won't be getting that for every sale today, or I actually I would guess that everyone got that message whether they had a sale or not. What I was referring to was when you go on the earnings page (http://www.dreamstime.com/earnings) it doesn't say anything about a 100% commission.
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Now, where are my sales?
(I wish this 100% thing would have been yesterday when I had some good sales... :( )
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I'm seeing the 100% royalties coming in. I had a 5 credit sale and earned $5 on it, so I guess it looks like the 100% thing is working. Only a few sales so far today, but hopefully this will pick up as the US buyers start to wake up.
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This is exciting! And I have to say, really a class move of DT to have it fall on a Tuesday - normally one of the busiest days of the week. I am sure they have some control over what day it fell on and it could have been the weekend, or during the Thanksgiving holiday.
I am loving Dreamstime. So nice that one of the agencies is still taking care of contributors! Thanks DT!! :D
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I'm not a big fan of DT but have to say this move is very classy. Hat off.
All greedy busters (FT, IS...) can learn a lot from DT in this moment.
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The 10,000,000th image has been awarded to Lunamarina (http://www.dreamstime.com/Lunamarina_info) with this shot (http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-mother-daughter-family-picnic-outdoor-park-image17043455)
congrats
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No sales yet >:(. Like someone said, I wish the 10m-day would have been yesterday..
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hey, today just started right? ;) hope we all got tons of downloads end of the day!
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Only one subs sale so far. I would far rather they accepted more of my images than do this, I have lost motivation with DT. Keep getting rejections for images that I am sure would make money. My earnings are way down this year, buyers will have to look at graphic leftovers to see my new stuff. That's one advantage with the newer sites, they don't have old lower quality images and accept more new ones.
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One level 2 Large $7.85 :)
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The 10,000,000th image has been awarded to Lunamarina ([url]http://www.dreamstime.com/Lunamarina_info[/url]) with this shot ([url]http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-photo-mother-daughter-family-picnic-outdoor-park-image17043455[/url])
congrats
Yes, congrats, but I can't help but see odd lighting and irrelevant keywords. What's going on in the top left corner?
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I think I pissed someone at DT off because my sales are down over 80% from the past years average. I likely won't even see a sale today :'(
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I bought 10 images today, paid 8 credits. But the conversion didn't say that, nor the the sum of the required credits. So I converted US$10 to 10 credits and used only 8.
I had a level 3 L sale late last night - missed the full earnings for just a little!!!
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I am loving Dreamstime. So nice that one of the agencies is still taking care of contributors! Thanks DT!! :D
Hmmm. It's a nice boost to today's earnings but in truth all we actually are getting back is a tiny fraction of what they took off us with the reduction in commissions last year. The extra I've got so far today roughly equates to what I lost on the last 3 EL's I sold, having gone from 50% to 33% commission. Heigh-ho.
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I feel like I'm standing on the sidelines and can't get into the game - LOL! I have 7 seasonal pictures that have been under review since last night. I am really hoping they get released today and get some notice in the New Images que so my dinky little portfolio has a hope of seeing a sale today. I really like DT and hope to be seeing more action there as my portfolio grows.
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Please, please, buyers, you still have time! Buy some of my level 3-4 images XXL! ;D
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I hate to see this is not a great selling day for me, yestarday was nice, but today sloooow... *.
BTW, my first download of the day have not counted as 100%, still in the download date say it was today, and it was a 7 credit DL. should i send a mail to suport or maybe is something about diferent time area?
Well i hope those client on america still are willing to buy more images.
Cheers.
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I hate to see this is not a great selling day for me, yestarday was nice, but today sloooow... .
BTW, my first download of the day have not counted as 100%, still in the download date say it was today, and it was a 7 credit DL. should i send a mail to suport or maybe is something about diferent time area?
Well i hope those client on america still are willing to buy more images.
Cheers.
I think it was 24 hours from pic no. 10 mill went online.
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I was very excited for this day once DT is doing pretty good but today nothing (few hours left..) (first day without sales this month).. On the otherside FT is having a crazy day with 8 sales so far (different hours)..
come on DT buyers :P
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I'm seeing pretty good sales today, so I am very happy.
Hmmm. It's a nice boost to today's earnings but in truth all we actually are getting back is a tiny fraction of what they took off us with the reduction in commissions last year. The extra I've got so far today roughly equates to what I lost on the last 3 EL's I sold, having gone from 50% to 33% commission. Heigh-ho.
I understand there was a royalty drop, but as I said earlier in the thread, other sites dropped royalties too, and either never had 100% royalty day, or else got rid of it.
I'm still really pleased DT did this. They certainly didn't have to. I guess I don't see the point of throwing other gripes into this happy, positive thread.
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I think it was 24 hours from pic no. 10 mill went online.
Makes sense, but of so, they shouldn't have put "NOW" last night, when they had not reached the 10M mark yet.
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I think it was 24 hours from pic no. 10 mill went online.
Makes sense, but of so, they shouldn't have put "NOW" last night, when they had not reached the 10M mark yet.
From what I read on the DT forum last night is that the counter script was for the clock on your own computer. I just had a sub sale for .35 and can't figure out why (unless partner site sales aren't affected by this). Just wish that dl I got yesterday for 14 credits would've happened today :D So far my question about this on DT hasn't been answered and I'm not gonna bug support about it as I'm sure they've got their hands full at the moment.
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Only two sales so far, a 7 credit sale and a sub sale. For me it's not about the sales I can get within a single day though, but the goodwill DT is showing all of us (whether exclusive or not) in a time where other agencies are turning their backs on us. It deserves admiration.
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I only had one DL today but it was for $11.54. That's pretty cool.
Only two sales so far, a 7 credit sale and a sub sale. For me it's not about the sales I can get within a single day though, but the goodwill DT is showing all of us (whether exclusive or not) in a time where other agencies are turning their backs on us. It deserves admiration.
I agree. After all the hits we've taken at another site which doesn't need to be mentioned, it was just nice to be recognized and rewarded. A little goodwill goes a long way, too bad other agencies don't feel the same way.
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doesn't look like I am going to get any DL at DT today, which is a shame. I did have some images "under review" when they hit the number, but obviously not at the perfect time. curiously enough when I went and looked at the page showing the winner, it said photographers needed to upload pictures and contribute to the forums and blogs to win, I thought it was all about hitting the magic number - well, I bet if the number turned out to be some boring texture background or something they would pick another one, so why not pick one from a busy active contributor too?
In any case, this shows more goodwill for contributors than others have shown lately, although I am still a little bitter about the % age drop.
I suppose there are a few hours left, so hopefully I will get at least one DL (preferably an EL)
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I just had one lousy sub sale on the magic day while I had a few large credit sales the days before. Even on Sunday I had more downloads. Oh well... there still is SS where I had a magic Tuesday to make up.
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I just had one lousy sub sale on the magic day while I had a few large credit sales the days before. Even on Sunday I had more downloads.
Totally idem ditto!
A pity... but still very nice gesture either way.
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doesn't look like I am going to get any DL at DT today, which is a shame. I did have some images "under review" when they hit the number, but obviously not at the perfect time. curiously enough when I went and looked at the page showing the winner, it said photographers needed to upload pictures and contribute to the forums and blogs to win, I thought it was all about hitting the magic number - well, I bet if the number turned out to be some boring texture background or something they would pick another one, so why not pick one from a busy active contributor too?
In any case, this shows more goodwill for contributors than others have shown lately, although I am still a little bitter about the % age drop.
I suppose there are a few hours left, so hopefully I will get at least one DL (preferably an EL)
The winner was a decent picture, and I am very happy for the photographer, but I think everyone need to lay of the conspiracy theories. They inspected 20 000 pictures in the last days, I'm sure they could have picked something more symbolic or more "perfect" for the winning pic.
I had two sales yesterday, total earnings 10 dollars. Nice.
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but I think everyone need to lay of the conspiracy theories
Huh? Nobody mentioned any conspiration theories here. Not with DT. If it was IS, well... I don't know. :P
And @Artemis: of course it's a great gesture.
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Well, the 100% day is over and wasn´t one of the best selling days for me, but still was nice. In total i had 7 sales yesterday, but the first one didn´t count (don´t know why).
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didn't sell much but even so, thank you DT! (Certainly beats the highwayman approach of IS and a stupid competition that nobody is interested in.)
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but I think everyone need to lay of the conspiracy theories
Huh? Nobody mentioned any conspiration theories here. Not with DT. If it was IS, well... I don't know. :P
And @Artemis: of course it's a great gesture.
From my quote from pancaketom, and similar replies from several others earlier in the thread: "well, I bet if the number turned out to be some boring texture background or something they would pick another one, so why not pick one from a busy active contributor too?"
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I didn't have any sales on this one. Hopeful for the next one, which is expected to be around March 22, 2011. If this times out right it may be on my birthday. LOL
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Yesterday was an exceptional day for me with even an EL (50 credits received $46.29)!
Sales went through the roof! Wish it was like that everyday, LOL!
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Yesterday was an exceptional day for me with even an EL (50 credits received $46.29)!
Sales went through the roof! Wish it was like that everyday, LOL!
Lucky you, congrats! for me this monday would have been a better choice but hey, lets no complain on the good things.
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Grrr, an EL on today Wednesday and rather large credit sales on Monday. Tuesday just one sub. Life can be cruel. I always read about other people winning the lottery. Very depressing, that's why I never buy lottery tickets. ;D
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So glad for those who did well, and much appreciation to DT for the respectful gesture.
I also would have done a lot better if it had been the day before, but that's the luck of the draw I suppose. Well done to all those who had good sales. Better luck next time to the rest of us. ;D
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Grrr, an EL on today Wednesday and rather large credit sales on Monday. Tuesday just one sub. Life can be cruel. I always read about other people winning the lottery. Very depressing, that's why I never buy lottery tickets. ;D
Same here. My Tuesday DT sales, were half those of Monday. And usually Tuesday beats Monday. Oh well. That's why I never play slot machines. :)
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Turned out to be a good sale day for me. Maybe because I have a lot of holiday stuff? Whatever the reason, I am really jazzed!
Thanks again DT!!
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I made a few extra $$$ but I still don't see why most people get excited about this. It just feels like they have given me back a tiny bit of what they have taken from me. I also don't like this lottery, some people make nothing while others get lucky. If they have to do this, why don't they split the days takings and give us a share proportionate to our portfolio size? Wouldn't that be much more fair.
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I also don't like this lottery, some people make nothing while others get lucky. If they have to do this, why don't they split the days takings and give us a share proportionate to our portfolio size? Wouldn't that be much more fair.
Not sure I understand, it was fair, everybody got 100% royalty.
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I also don't like this lottery, some people make nothing while others get lucky. If they have to do this, why don't they split the days takings and give us a share proportionate to our portfolio size? Wouldn't that be much more fair.
Not sure I understand, it was fair, everybody got 100% royalty.
Some people get unusually low numbers of downloads and others get a great day and EL's. That's what makes it like a lottery.
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I also don't like this lottery, some people make nothing while others get lucky. If they have to do this, why don't they split the days takings and give us a share proportionate to our portfolio size? Wouldn't that be much more fair.
Not sure I understand, it was fair, everybody got 100% royalty.
Some people get unusually low numbers of downloads and others get a great day and EL's. That's what makes it like a lottery.
The Lotto is my retirement plan and I love slot machines ... but had absolutely NO sales on this exciting day. So it goes, luck of the draw. :P
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Some people get unusually low numbers of downloads and others get a great day and EL's. That's what makes it like a lottery.
I can see why that seems unfair, and might feel the same if I had not gotten decent sales yesterday.
OTOH, making it by portfolio size would have been even more unfair. There are a lot of people with thousands of objects isolated on white that never sell, and plenty of others with small, but highly saleable portfolios. Rewarding quantity over quality is not the answer.
Bottom line is DT didn't have to do this at all. They threw us a bone and we can either bitch about it or enjoy it...
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I also don't like this lottery, some people make nothing while others get lucky. If they have to do this, why don't they split the days takings and give us a share proportionate to our portfolio size? Wouldn't that be much more fair.
Not sure I understand, it was fair, everybody got 100% royalty.
Some people get unusually low numbers of downloads and others get a great day and EL's. That's what makes it like a lottery.
But isn't that the same as every other day on every other site.
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Some people get unusually low numbers of downloads and others get a great day and EL's. That's what makes it like a lottery.
I can see why that seems unfair, and might feel the same if I had not gotten decent sales yesterday.
OTOH, making it by portfolio size would have been even more unfair. There are a lot of people with thousands of objects isolated on white that never sell, and plenty of others with small, but highly saleable portfolios. Rewarding quantity over quality is not the answer.
Bottom line is DT didn't have to do this at all. They threw us a bone and we can either bitch about it or enjoy it...
true, it was a great day (not for me).. had a EL the previous day.. lol :P
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Just one sale, but at credits... not bad. Yes, they took much more before than they gave yesterday, but it was still a nice gesture.
I bought 9 images from the same member, and two raised to level 2 due to this. I feel good. :D
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I wasn't trying to suggest some big conspiracy, although I still wouldn't be surprised if a site switched from a really boring pic to one more interesting from the same batch or something if that is what they came up with first - with multiple reviewers all over the world I am not sure exactly how they would measure the magic number anyway...
BUT
looking at DT's page it says:
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You're a photographer. What do you have to do in this contest?
There are no entry fees or extra registration required. The only things required of you are to upload pictures, to be an active part of the community by helping other users on the forums and contributing to the site's action.
To maximize your chances you need to:
- upload the maximum amount allowed of pictures each day
- increase your approval percentage ratio
- provide quality (be selective)
- be active on the site and message boards
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So how exactly does anything other than uploading a lot of images that are going to get accepted help you get the 10,000,000th accepted image? That was my main question. I guess I would also expect that submitting 100 images with a 50% acceptance ratio would be better for winning the contest than submitting 10 images with 100% acceptance ratio, but they suggest that this is not so.
(and I also wanted to commiserate with those that had no DL on that day)
DT didn't have to do this, and although I think it is a small gesture, it is way better for contributors than something like the "stockys". I'd really like my flat 50% across the board though.
--=Tom