Quote from: Brasilnut on September 21, 2023, 14:42

Quote from: Zero Talent on September 21, 2023, 10:35

https://petapixel.com/2023/09/21/photographers-experiment-sees-78k-photos-downloaded-zero-donations/

Fame at last!

The author/editors of the article deliberately omitted to mention that many accounts from South Asia downloaded my images for free and tried to re-sell at SS, AS and iStock. Perhaps they don't want to rock the boat with those agencies. At least they linked it to the blog post where I mentioned it many times.

Alex, I would be quite annoyed if others published interesting news with my research - and also find it quite impertinent.

Do you leave the article now just like that?

Getting a huge amount of quality traffic to my blog, so so far it's been positive.

The experiment is over, not much to talk about. Interesting that I just got an email from someone who read the article and because of my findings decided to quit at the free sites. Hope there's momentum there with others who come to the same conclusions. Perhaps if I can get enough people to come forward I'll draft something.

I'm actually trying to get some paid-writing gigs at Petapixel so let's see if something will happen when I follow-up with the editors.

Yay, Alex! Congrats on getting famous 

I've had a similar experience with free sites. On Unsplash, I have over 10,000 downloads and on Pexels, I've reached 5,000 downloads since the start of 2022. I've received maybe 3-5 donations and have been tagged on Instagram a couple of times. I currently have around 60 photos on both platforms.